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Flash Player 10.1 Global Error Handling Examples and the Flex 3.x Issue
We all welcomed this addition to the Flash Player 10.1. The ability to catch all exceptions inside the player has lots of benefits, from proper logging on to…
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Flash Private Browsing Fixed - Not Good Enough
I was going to congrat Adobe for their fix to the private browsing in Flash, this was my original text: I’m glad to say that Adobe has fixed the minor issue…
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Flash vs HTML5 vs Adobe vs Apple
Disclaimer: I’ve written this post a few days weeks ago when I was a bit pissed, so it has some ranting-ness in it. I do have a soft side for Flash, but, as I…
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Kiss And Tell What Is The User Browsing Mode
To know if the user is currently in normal or private browsing mode can be valuable info for any ads providers and spammers, but not only. With the upcoming…
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My PureMVC presentation
When it comes to enterprise application it’s difficult to recommend project owners to bet on a framework that hasn’t proved itself for a long time. So all…
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HTML 5 vs Flash vs SilverLight
This is by no mean a full technical comparison between these technologies, just a chat between 2 geeks. One is a skeptic backend dude 😉 and the other one is…
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The biggest terrorists in the world are... Flex bloggers
Adrian Parr, a Flex blogger mostly known for his post listing of AS3 frameworks got hacked by some political lamers. The whole blog is replaced with common and…
Encapsulating CSRF attacks inside massively distributed Flash movies - Real world example
Update: Added a sterilized demo and the source code. CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) is considered one of the most widely spread exploits in websites today.…
Pay Per View with Flash Media Server
At JAJAH we are always looking for ways to leverage our payment system in new and exciting ways. One of the ideas that came up was to sell calls to videos. You…
Hostlynx 2.0 - Serious Flex app
There is a claim that there isn’t enough serious Flex applications out there. I’ve recently had the honor to preview an impressive one, and also to conduct a…
Too much focus will kill you
I’ve just came across of a way to kill the Flash player with a few lines of AS 2.0. I know of at least one other way of killing the Flash player along with…
Shape Hints - Have you forgotten how good they taste ?
These days it’s easy to forget that Flash is an amazing classic animation tool. Ever since the arrival of the fine Macromedia Tween Class and the amazing Fuse…
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Script# - C# compiled into Javascript
This might sound familiar to you, the idea of writing an Object Oriented code, that allow compile-time checking, and good code design, that is then compiled…
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Careful with these decompilers
I was playing with the last Sothink SWF Decompiler (SSD) on my own swfs, just to see how it looks like and to check if it can re-fla it. It was long since I…
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Best way to get address variables into Flash
I’ve seen too many wrong or old soulotions for sending query string variables into Flash (page.html?var1=Jon&var2=Smith… etc.). In fact, if you’ll google it…
Understanding Flash's ExternalInterface.
It occurs to me that too many people are not aware of the Flash 8 new and shiny ExternalInterface and are still using fscommand and setVariable or getURL for…
Watch me bleed - Fatal error in Flash 7.0 / 7.2
I’ve stumbled across an interesting error today: Using the Object.watch can result in a crush of the Flash 7.0 / 7.2 IDE, the Flash 7 stand alone player, and…
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The end of the decompiling bonanza !
DeCompilers software makers excuse their doing by saying: “if you’ll ever lose your fla ….” Yeah right, the people who used it to retrieve their lost fla can…
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Flash player inaccuracy clarified
I was ranting about the Flash inteval inaccuracy in some older post. Finaly, there is an article by Tinic Uro that clarifies why intervals and frame rates…
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Check your Interval
I was amazed by the inaccuracy of intervals in flash. At least on my system a 1000 millisecond is about 1056 milliseconds. I’m using flash player 8.5 alpha 3…
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setTimeout in flash 7
As you might know Flash 8 was reinforced with the setTimeout functionality. You can now tell flash 8 player to run a function once after a given…