http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:11:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can anyone recommend a Flex Builder/Eclipse plugin for cleaning up and reformatting MXML within a Flex project?  http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/04/08/cleaning-up-flex-builders-mxml/ Ok. I am a "Flash guy" so I'm jaded towards Flash, but I work at a company that is a Microsoft partner and I attended MIX today.    So here is my quick and dirty about Silverlight 2.0 while at MIX today. From a feature/functionality point of view, I think Silverlight can ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/03/05/mix-and-silverlight-day-1-from-a-flash-perspective/ MIX is this week and its in my backyard. I'm a long time Mac and Adobe user, but I work for a company that is heavily Microsoft influenced. At work, I'm using a Dell PC, but I jump on a Mac the moment I get home. ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/03/04/silverlight-20-mac-tools/ I need to vent. Don't read any further if you aren't interested in listening to someone complain. Cable companies, TV companies, and many others have us between a rock and a hard place and they know it.   I recently switched to DirectTV after having Cox Cable for more than 5 ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/03/02/beware-major-rant-below-cabletv-directtv-and-things-in-general/ John Grden is heading to Vegas for one of his famous two-day Papervision 3D workshops.   Check out the details here [LINK].  It's going to be held at Alexis Park.  Its walking distance from the Hard Rock. You can walk to the strip or take one of the free shuttles from ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/02/10/papervision-3d-20-workshop-las-vegas-march-29th-30th/ If you are new to ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3, check out Lee's new Flash CS3 extension for writing the event code.   Very handy if you are starting out.  Based on initial response and Lee providing the source code, I'm sure we'll see some great enchancements to this extension. http://theflashblog.com/?p=331 http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/02/10/lees-new-event-generator-extension-for-flash-cs3/ Please join us for a very special Las Vegas user group and Vegas Flex joint meeting at New Horizons (map) 7:00 PM Thursday January 24th, where our presenter will be Ryan Stewart, Adobe’s Rich Internet Application Evangelist. Our topics will be the features of the upcoming releases of ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/01/22/reminder-las-vegas-flex-3-and-air-pre-release-tour-jan-24th/ Here are my predictions for tomorrow's keynote by Steve Jobs: Faster Macbooks & Macbook Pro's and upgraded graphics Updated AppleTV new iPhone SDK w/ Flash on the iPhone Movie Downloads and "the one last thing" will be a ultra-portable (like the Nokia n810) with Adobe AIR pre-installed (that's the "air" in the banners at MWSF) [EDIT ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/01/14/mwsf-2008-my-predictions/ Please join us for a very special Las Vegas user group  and Vegas Flex joint meeting at New Horizons (map) where our presenter will be Ryan Stewart, Adobe's Rich Internet Application Evangelist.  Our topics will be the features of the upcoming releases of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.   Everyone is ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2008/01/07/flex-3-and-air-pre-release-tour-las-vegas/ John Grden will be our special guest for Wednesday night's LV Adobe user group. John will be joining us via Connect and giving our users a demo on Papervision3D. The meeting will be starting at 7pm at New Horizons at 7674 West Lake Mead Blvd Suite ... http://www.yapiodesign.com/blog/2007/12/11/las-vegas-adobe-users-group-meeting-dec-12th-with-special-guest-john-grden/