Archive | August, 2007

Ever used LoaderContext?

Kevin, another Flash/Flex developer on my team, has a good poston his blog on the LoaderContext class and using it for getting access to the BitmapData object of an image loaded off a domain other than the one hosts the swf. I never tried this with AS2, so when we were unable to get BitmapData [...]

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onAir Philly: DiggGraphr Desktop gathers more goodies

I should have posted about this earlier but I have been really slammed with work of late. However I did manage to get away for an evening as the onAir bus rolled into Philadelphia. It was really a cool evening (evenings with free beer usually are) and I did manage to meet a lot of [...]

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The Fan, Comcast’s Flex based video player: SHIPPED !

WooHoo !!!! The Fan, Comcast Interactive Media’s flagship video application, which I worked on as main architect and lead developer, was deployed to production this week. The Fan is currently one of the top 10 online video destinations and the new version adds a LOT of cool features to the application. I have already talked [...]

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The much awaited notes from Flex training day 3

Earlier I had asked if anyone had any Flex questions I could ask Jeff Tapper when he came by to train the group, and a few people did. Unfortunately, the last day I had a major meeting maelstrom (try saying that three times fast) and so I didnt get to work on any of the [...]

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Notes from day 1 and 1.5:

Like I had mentioned in my earlier post, the Flex team at Comcast Interactive Media in undergoing a training for three days on all things Flex with Jeff Tapper (of the Adobe Flex Training from the Source book fame). I have been in and out for the most part but the team seems to have [...]

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Do you have any questions on Flex? Any questions at all?

Continuing the effort to making Comcast Interactive Media a Flex center of excellence, next week the team here is going to be trained by Jeff Tapper, one of the biggest names in the Flex community. Most Flex developers may know him from his book, Adobe Flex 2, Training from the source. Since the team here [...]

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