Mike Chambers

Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate

I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing

Posted: Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM

Function closures and ‘this’ in ActionScript 3

I have been reading through Colin Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3 book, taking my time on each chapter to make sure I get the most out of it. I have been using ActionScript 3 pretty consistently for a couple of years (about a year before it wa

Posted: Oct. 8, 2008 03:10 PM

Flash Camp this weekend in San Francisco

If you are in the San Francisco Bay area (or not too far away), then make sure to check out Flash Camp this weekend, being held in the Adobe San Francisco office by the Flash team. This is an all weekend event that will go in depth over the new Flash

Posted: Oct. 6, 2008 05:21 PM

Why Adobe chose FXG over SVG

I am currently on a speaking and press tour in Asia talking about some of the new stuff we are doing in Flex 4. One of the things that people seem to be really excited about is FXG and Thermo, and the improved designer / developer workflow that they

Posted: Sep. 30, 2008 07:25 PM

Links for SparkProject.org meeting

Here are the links I mentioned during the SparkProject.org meeting tonight in Tokyo: Pixel Bender on Labs Creating ActionScript libraries of Pixel Bender Filters Tinic Uro’s Post on Pixel Bender in the Flash Player Flash Player 10 Drawing API o

Posted: Sep. 26, 2008 07:47 AM

Video overview of new features in Flash CS4

Lee Brimelow has put together a video demonstrating some of the new features of Flash CS4. My favorites thus far include the new UI, inverse kinematics (really cool when applied to shapes), new animation tools and features, and Flex created SWCs work

Posted: Sep. 25, 2008 06:55 PM

ActioScript 3 Vector / Array Performance Comparison

In my original post on the new Flash Player 10 Vector class, I did a simple example that showed Vectors being slightly faster than Array when just populating and looping through collections. Below is another example that shows a more significant perf

Posted: Sep. 24, 2008 07:48 PM

Adobe Flash CS4 Announced

As you have surely already read, we announced Adobe Flash CS4 today. I am not going to go into all of the details about what is in this release as you can find that on the website. However, I havent really used the authoring tool in some time (I bare

Posted: Sep. 23, 2008 11:57 AM

New Adobe AIR T-shirt created by eboy

Here is a sneak peak of the new AIR t-shirts (with a shout out to Flex and Flash). These were created by eboy, who also created the AIR 1.0 launch t-shirts. Right now, the only way to get these is to attend one of the developer events on Ryan’

Posted: Sep. 23, 2008 02:50 AM

Pixel Bender Grayscale Filter

Below is another simple Pixel Bender filter that I created last night. This one basically, converts an image to gray scale, using the ITU-R Recommendation BT.709 algorithm described here. Here is the filter: <languageVersion : 1.0;> kernel

Posted: Sep. 18, 2008 11:38 AM

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