Richard Leggett on New Media

getDefinitionByName() Fails in SWFs Loaded Into Another SWF (Solution)

Just a quick note for future reference. When you are using getDefinitionByName("ClassName") inside a SWF that is being loaded into another SWF, it might not find the symbol from its own library (see ApplicationDomain and LoaderContext for why). The

Posted: Sep. 8, 2008 04:51 PM

Xuinet Mobile Flash Competition - $10,000 prize

Just got news from the guys at Xuinet that they’re running a big competition with a cash prizes totaling $10,000. You need to submit SWFs via email by November 3rd 2008 and multiple entries are allowed. Looks like a good opportunity to re-purpo

Posted: Aug. 29, 2008 03:48 PM

SWF2JAR - Project Capuchin from Sony Ericsson

I’m just watching the seminar (recording here) about Sony Ericssons project Capuchin. It looks incredible. Ask anyone that’s developed with Flash Lite and they’ll tell you that distribution is one of the biggest problems they face.

Posted: Aug. 28, 2008 01:21 PM

Ubiquity for Firefox - From Mozilla Labs

I’m still a firm believer that technology will make a programmer out of us all due to the “standing on the shoulders of geeks” principal (discussed here), this is where the collective intelligence/skillset of web users as a whole is

Posted: Aug. 27, 2008 03:39 AM

Unity (3D) Developer Magazine - Review

Over the weekend I received a copy of the first issue of Unity Developer Magazine, thanks to Charles Hinshaw. I had high hopes for this magazine, largely because Unity has an incredibly vibrant community of developers and artists. I was not at all di

Posted: Aug. 18, 2008 04:19 AM

ActionScript and ECMAScript 3.1/4 - Inter-op is the Key

Like many other Flash devs I’ve been following the discussions surrounding the ECMAScript 4 decisions and the Harmony project quite closely. There are a few bloggers out there that appear to be stating that ActionScript will become divorced fro

Posted: Aug. 15, 2008 04:50 AM

Meta4orce - Papervision Site for the BBC

I just caught this site via the blog of Iain Lobb (head of interactive at Bloc Media) who commented on my last post. It’s an incredibly slick site developed using the Great White branch of Papervision3D. The site is (for) a TV and online cartoo

Posted: Aug. 6, 2008 08:38 AM

JavaFX.com is DHTML Heaven

I just visited the (new?) JavaFX site in order to keep up to date on how the new kid to the Flash/Silverlight/"Rich” block was doing, and I was presented with an interesting site indeed. Make sure to click some of the “Resource” lin

Posted: Aug. 1, 2008 06:38 AM

CalDAV Support Added to Google Calendar

I’ve been using Google Docs and Reader for a long time now. Reader is the only RSS aggregator that lets me whizz through hundreds of feeds fast enough to keep up to date and from various devices (tried feedburner and newsgator). Docs made it ea

Posted: Jul. 29, 2008 09:29 AM

Flash on the Beach Conference Passes.. on eBay

What a great idea from Flash on the Beach, there are now 5 three day conference passes are up for grabs on eBay, the starting price just £1. It will be interesting to see how much these end up going for. Whoever wins, I’ll see you there! Ticket

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 10:01 AM

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