Flash Player 10 (Astro) Beta
mikechambers May 14th, 2008
Lots of new toys to play with. You can find all of the information on labs.
Heading to Europe to Speak on AIR and Flex
mikechambers May 6th, 2008
Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan are the cities I will be stopping in as part of the second leg of the European on AIR Tour. I will be MCing the event, and giving a session on building your first AIR application with Flex.
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MXNA is back up
mikechambers May 5th, 2008
New site and url is http://feeds.adobe.com. Redirects for old urls at (weblogs.macromedia.com) are not all in place yet.
Christian has all of the info.
FlashCommand for OS X updated to work with Flash CS3
mikechambers May 2nd, 2008
I just uploaded a new version of FlashCommand for OS X (.90), which fixes some issues with running with Adobe Flash CS3.
You can grab the latest version from here.
Thanks to rquigley and Patrick Palmer for helping to track down and fix a couple of issues.
Creating a default DATETIME_FORMAT filter for django
mikechambers May 2nd, 2008
Here is a simple django template filter that will format a date according to the DATETIME_FORMAT variable in the settings file.
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TIP : How to get Apache Location directive to match trailing slashes
mikechambers May 1st, 2008
I am working on deploying a django app online, and thus need to use the Apache Location directive to point to my django app.
This is pretty straight forward:
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Adobe drops restrictions on SWF, FLV formats
mikechambers May 1st, 2008
As you have probably seen, Adobe has dropped the licensing restrictions on both the SWF and FLV file formats. Among other things, you can know use the formats to create players that read in the formats.
Check out Ryan Stewart’s weblog for more discussion
We have also put up a site with some information, which includes a FAQ.
You can also download the specs:
Update on MXNA (or what the %@#! is going on!)
mikechambers April 29th, 2008
Well, as you probably know, MXNA (a feed aggregator for Adobe related communities and technologies) has had some stability issues for some time, and has recently been down for the past couple of days.
Update : MXNA is back up at its new url : http://feeds.adobe.com
I wanted to make a quick post giving an update on what is going on, and what we are doing to fix it.
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FlashCommand for OS X re-uploaded
mikechambers April 29th, 2008
I have been getting a bunch of email that the links to my FlashCommand for OS X download was no longer working. FlashComamnd is a command line tool written in python, that allows you to launch Flash authoring to compile FLAs.
Well, I found the files, and have re-uploaded them. You can find all of the information, including how to use and download the tool from here.
I have not tested this with Flash CS3, so if it doesnt work, let me know on the FlashCommand page.
Update : After making the post, I just decided to create a google code project for it, which you can find here. If you run into any issues, then post an issue on the project page.
Download Adobe AIR 1.0 for JavaScript Developers Book
mikechambers April 17th, 2008
Ajaxian has just posted the PDF download for the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide Book (published by O’Reilly). The book is released under a Creative Commons license, and has been update for Adobe AIR 1.0.
You can find all of the information, as well as download the PDF from ajaxian.com.
