Flash | Retrospective

Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching

Could Flash Catalyst Replace the Flash IDE?

Flash Catalyst isn’t even in public beta yet, but based on the potential I see with the preview release handed out at Adobe MAX, I could see Flash Catalyst replace the Flash IDE eventually.
Now currently, FC is being billed as a tool for interation designers for creating UI mockups to use for wireframing, adding interactivity [...]


Flash CS4 3d rotation – ever changing Z and 3d coordinates

Up until today, I haven’t had much time to play with Flash CS4’s new 3d capabilities except some basic code examples.  Today, I played around in the IDE and was trying to work with the 3d tools.
I have to admit I’m a bit puzzled about the Z axis in Flash CS4 and how Flash chooses [...]


Las Vegas Adobe User Group: Lee Brimelow presenting on December 8th

If you are in Las Vegas on December 8th, please join us for our holiday user group meeting.  Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform Evangelist, will be in town and presenting to our group.  He’ll be showing off the new features of Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10.  I’ve watched a lot of Lee’s video tutorials over [...]