This apply with EcmaScript 4.0,Francis Cheng made a clear explanation of how to use Type Parameters to add type checking in a collection class.
Very useful, now when will AS3 and JS be compatible with this new format ? Well be patient (and try to stay young and fresh :p)
Ahmet
Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.
Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)
Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code
Ahmet
Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time :)
If you want to join us for the next event, just keep looking at AUGG!
View all the video of this meeting on YouTube
I want to thanks everyone who answered the questions, as it’s not easy to improvise when you are eating and drinking :)
Ahmet
Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future.
Read the translated version (originally text is in French).
Here are a few interesting quotes:
[...]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we are not against it
[...]The web is an environment which is changing very rapidly, and we have the R & D teams to advance Flash the best as possible. But one can imagine that, in due course, when the format will be more mature, Flash will also be open source.
[...]Yes, we have a few projects related to Flash. We have a Media player in development, to take advantage of Internet video. It is a sector that has actually just started, and that has a tremendous growth curve. And then there is AIR, which is a technology that allows applications to create classics, but related websites. It is a tool to be always connected, even without launching a Web browser.[...]
Ahmet
Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy.
For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR.
If you didn’t started yet with AIR don’t worry! It’s just a single click away for your web applications to be on the desktop. With a few more lines of code you can have rich interaction with the desktop.
Or go tonight to your local User Group (tonight in Geneva).
Ahmet
As you certainly know, ActionScript 3.0 is based on ECMAScript language. The new edition of ECMAScript is in preparation (ECMA-262 Edition 4) and will most certainly shape the future of ActionScript 4.0.
Colin Moock is going to do a lecture at FITC about these changes. You can access his lectures notes ‘What’s new in ECMAScript 4.0?‘ or access to the ECMAScript documentation page to have more information on it. It’s also a unique way to get the preview of ActionScript future :)
Ahmet
Interesting article written by Peleus Uhley for the Adobe Developer Center about creating more secure SWF web applications.
This article will help you set all the security to protect your SWF from threats, for example:
The article ends by a useful ‘auditor checklist’ for controlling dangerous functions.
I warmly advice this article!
Ahmet
