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I would like to announce that I am available to edit/proof-read books about Flash and ActionScript. I know that many of you who read this blog are writing or will be writing the next generation of Flash books, and I would love to be your editor. And here is why I will be great at editing your book:- I have almost eight years of experience with Flash and ActionScript.- I worked for Macromedia for

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One of my favorite ways to employ my Flash skills these days is to make the world more aware of and open to psychic stuff. Check out Psychic Valentines™.

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GalaxyGoo is participating in the 2006 Blogathon. This is GalaxyGoo's second time participating. If you are not familiar with them, GalaxyGoo is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization dedicated to all things science, education, and Flash. Please sponsor GalaxyGoo!

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Yesterday I received the latest copy of the JDJ, and with it came a CD that says Adobe Flex 2.0 Windows. Adobe Flex. Now THAT sounds WEIRD. But I suppose we'll all get used to it in time.

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I made another little Flash thingie so that people can send Psychic Birthday Wishes&#8482. Like a Psychic Valentine, a Psychic Birthday Wish is a gift certificate for psychic advice; only the occasion is different.Why do I keep talking about these things? Because sometimes the big guys have to support the little guys. This website, thanks to my five year membership in the Flash community, is the

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Dragonfly Psychic needed a little Flash thingie in order to be able to send out Psychic Valentines&#8482. A Psychic Valentine&#8482 is a gift certificate for psychic insight. This Valentine's Day, anybody can send Psychic Valentines&#8482 to anybody they want.I got out my oldest Flash animation (girl.fla from the year 2000), put a third eye on the girl, and she became the psychic character on the

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Brendan Eich of Mozilla has posted some news about JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4. These notes are not irrelevant for ActionScripters of course. And that's all I'm going to say about that because I'm lazy these days.

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Check out the new video documentary on the DevNet about the Making of Flash 8. A very candid look at the insides of Macromedia and the endgame process of a release.

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As I mentioned last time, I went to Austin to be a panelist on the Flash vs. HTML game show at SXSW Interactive. Joe Clark has posted a live transcript from the panel, if you're curious about how it all went down.Also, Jeffrey Zeldman seemed to have liked our panel. He wrote a very positive review. This is my favorite part:[...] in The Flash vs. HTML Game Show, designers [...] were more

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If you're coming to SXSW 2005, you might be interested in a panel I am participating in: The Flash vs. HTML Game Show. Several ActionScript and HTML developers were asked to redesign popular existing sites in their element and, you know, prove that it's much much better. Should be contentious, uh, fun.

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As promised, I took a heap of pictures.

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Today is my first day in my new cubicle in the new Macromedia office at 601 Townsend in San Francisco. All Macromedia employees that used to dwell in the dungeon at 606 Townsend are in the new building as of today. Pictures are coming tomorrow or maybe later today, I promise. For now, here are a couple from the architect. Also, here is a little map of how the three Macromedia buildings on

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Danny Patterson on Community MX has written an article about E4X in which he speculates on what an ActionScript implementation may look like. E4X stands for ECMAScript for XML. It's a standard that was published in June 2004 which specifies native XML types, including XML, XMLList, QName and Namespace, for ECMAScript. As ActionScript is based on ECMAScript, the E4X spec may be of interest to

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An article on usatoday.com says today: Say goodbye to the American software programmer. [...] Some experts think they'll become extinct within the next few years, forced into unemployment or new careers by a combination of offshoring of their work to India and other low-wage countries and the arrival of skilled immigrants taking their jobs. Scary, scary, scary stuff. What alternative career are

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Undefined and undeclared variables are two different things. This is probably obvious to some, but in ActionScript, it isn't always so obvious. An undefined variable is a variable that has a value of undefined. An undeclared variable has never been set to a value or established with var. In ActionScript right now, undefined and undeclared variables have pretty much the same effect. var a; if (a

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While doing research on Flickr, I came across a very interesting post titled Organizr is Nice, But Not a Web App. The post is already a month old (which makes it at least a year and a half in internet years, right?), but I wanted to comment on it anyway because it doesn't seem to have been mentioned very much in the Flash community. JD commented on it briefly, but I think that's it. Organizr is

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You probably know that Flickr is a relatively new photo sharing, photo blogging and social networking tool. You probably also know that a lot of its interface was done in Flash. (If you didn't know these two things, where have you been? Just kidding.) The photos are loaded and displayed in Flash, and fast too! The coolest feature, I think, is that you can then add notes to your own or other

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I know it's been a really long time since I have written anything on here. The reason is that my personal life has taken over most of my spare time over the last few months, and I haven't done anything to stop it. Last week I went on a really amazing trip. I went to Burning Man for the first time. For those of you who don't know, Burning Man is an annual week-long festival held on a flat dry

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Do you have any grand ideas for instant messaging-enabled Central apps? Now is your chance to get a head start on building them. As Mike Chambers mentioned a few days ago, Macromedia is looking for beta testers for the AIM and ICQ APIs in the next version of Central. Send Mike an email with the subject "Central Beta" so you can start playing with the APIs. It'll be fun, I promise!

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Jeffrey Heer of UC Berkeley as part of an Information Visualization class has created an interactive visualization tool for visualizing an individual's social networks as described by such data as on Friendster, Tribe or Orkut. The tool is written in Java. If you ask me, it's screaming for Flash. I can hear it. [via Min Jung Kim]

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Today is my birthday, and the Central team got me a huge birthday cake with the coolest message on it. It's the coolest cake ever. Thanks so much, everybody!

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For those of you who haven't seen them, Jared Tarbell has posted a TON of pictures from Flash in the Can 2004, and some of them are really good. And warped. And blurry.

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It seems like Flashers are starting to jump on the social networking bandwagon. Within the last week I have received at least five "friend requests" on Orkut from Flashers all over the world. This is just another sign of the trend that geeks are using Orkut for professional networking whereas other social network sites like Friendster or Tribe seem to be used primarily for personal networking.

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Another really cool person I met at Flash in the Can is Jeremy Thorp. I met him in the speakers' room on Sunday. I had done my presentation a few hours earlier and was just chilling for the rest of the day while Jeremy was getting ready for his presentation. Like myself, it was his first time speaking at a Flash conference. Mostly out of solidarity, I decided to attend his session, the last of

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I didn't take that many but here they are.

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