One year ago, in October 2008, Flash Player 10 was publicly released. At the time, due to some major early adoption, I predicted it’d reach a 90% browser penetration after 6 months. It turns out I was a bit too optimistic, but in a way, the prediction now doesn’t seem to be as crazy as [...]

Adobe Max 2009 will finally start in a few weeks. For the past few months, I’ve heard small bits of information about the future of the Flash platform, often complemented by someone from Adobe saying we’d have more information at MAX – making the event sound more and more important each time around. Ted Patrick’s [...]

Nowadays it’s often that I find somebody talking about something or doing something that I wish I was doing myself – but that I can’t for a number of reasons (one of them being the fact that I’ve just moved and I don’t have a real computer and Internet connection at home). The latest installment [...]

Another post that has been a long time in the making. From the start. Until a few years ago, whenever I needed some kind of animation added to the Flash-based work I developed, I used an ActionScript tweening extension I created called MC Tween. This extension was created strictly according to my own tastes; other [...]

I’ve just returned from EDTED (formerly EWD) São Paulo, where I gave the same presentation I gave last month at EWD Rio de Janeiro. Awesome event as usual, and I think my presentation was alright. Thanks to everybody who attended, it was a huge honor to be there. This post is more to let people [...]

Adobe has updated the Flash version penetration statistics, showing Flash 10 with an average 74% penetration rate for March 2009. This sounds fine – considering Flash Player 10 was released less than 6 months before – but when updating my graphics with a historic view, it’s clear the adoption rate has slowed down a bit. [...]

Like I mentioned earlier, tomorrow I’ll be at Rio de Janeiro at the 14th Encontro de Webdesign (“Webdesign Meeting”), giving a presentation whose title translates to something like “Rich interfaces as tools for public involvement”. It’s basically a talk that aims to show why and how rich interface platforms (Flash and others) can be used, [...]

One of the topics I’ve delved the most into while creating my graduation project last year was web-based applications – “application-like” websites in which you can do tasks that were usually restricted to full-fledged applications you usually have to install on your own computer. In my opinion, there’s this silent revolution going on, where we’re [...]

And while I’m still in the subject, here’s a final example of how one can use getter/setters do add some functionality that doesn’t normally exist in a MovieClip: altering the registration point of a MovieClip. This is some commonly requested functionality. There are several libraries out there that do the trick, I suppose, but a [...]

Riding on what I wrote yesterday about using getter/setters for actual state control, here’s another example of how getter/setters can be used to control how your display assets work and make your life simpler. For a while, for me, it was quite common to employ Tweener’s ColorShortcuts if I wanted to, say, tween the brightness [...]