[From Adobe Dev Center]

For the first time ever, Adobe will host an online Developer Week conference, June 12–16, to share with developers the background and significance behind the Adobe Engagement Platform—and provide real-world sessions to illustrate how the platform works, the Adobe products it comprises—such as Flex—and its impact on the developer community.

I’ll try to [...]

Interesting webcast from bitpipe.
Half of presentation is more publicity than something else but there still are some nice things to learn from this.

Nearly two month ago I published my Flash Stats Engine, now here are the result I get from it and the use of other stats engine. Data was gathered from more than 6000 different IP. On system that did already have Flash Player 7 installed and javascript enabled, this is the first bias. The second [...]

After months of patient waiting I finally received an invitation code for Google Analytics.
It gives a lot of useful statistics about different views from Marketing Optimization and Content Optimization. I warmly suggest it if you aren’t happy with your statistics tools. There even is a stats about Flash version.
Google Analytics tells you everything you want [...]

Interesting article about designing pages for Google found on informit.com by J. Gonzalez. It explain how to use the Flash Search Engine SDK (win/lnx only). Flash Search Engine SDK emulate how would Google analyze your swf.

The KHRONOS PROJECTOR,
[...]go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands [...]

I had to made a scrollbar for a movieClip created by ActionScript. All that ended with a function:
ScrollMc(MovieClip2Scroll, ScrollBarMc);
It supports all movieClip (at least I hope, tell me if not) and you can have multiple scrollbar over multiple MC (multiple scrollbar for one MC also work).
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/sampleScroll.swf" height="300" width="400" /]
Download source + exemple
This function [...]

Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave[…]
[…] hope for Aperture’s future is that the application’s problems are said to be so extensive that any version 2.0 would require major portions of code to be entirely rewritten. […] an entirely new engineering team could salvage the software [...]

For a project I had to make a little flash player linked with XML.
It can also be used as a videofolio, at least I hope so ;)
Here it is:
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.metah.ch/blog/image/Flvplayback.swf" height="400" width="450" /]
Sources Fla, Xml, As or FullSize Demo
To make it work for your use just edits:

extraitFLV_xml.load(“../myFlv.xml”);
my_flvPb.skin = “../skin.swf”;

You’ll found both in the [...]

It’s not often that I speak happily from Internet Explorer (IE) because of all the time they make me loose … But this time they have made a nice update to IE (only for Internet Explorer 7), the QuickTabs (Ctrl + Q) button will, once clicked, show you all the tabs you have opened in [...]