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Very cool recording by Moock: Kevin Lynch showing the next generation of the Flash Player at a Flash conference in Tokyo. Kevin demonstrated the run-time capability to render bitmap effects like drop shadow, glow, blur, color matrix, and bevel. Apparently there will be full ActionScript control of these effects at run-time, as well as full […]

I completely forgot to blog about it, whilst I am definitely looking forward to this event; I will be speaking at Macromedia MAX 2004 in New Orleans, the first week of November. MAX 2004 promises to be a great event with many official and non official after-hour sessions that I plan to attend. I myself will be […]

The Dutch and Belgium User Groups keep attracting fantastic speakers, incredible! Mike Chambers did already speak at the MXUG in Amsterdam and will do the same for the MMUG in Mechelen (close to Brussels) on October 23rd. Aral Balkan also seems to be ruling the BeNeLux. He already attended Flashtival 2004 and now will also speak […]

Need I say more? We ALL love RIA! Real picture of LostBoys office at this moment, in preparation of their Rich Internet Application event

This week I helped someone to port an excisting Flash RIA to Flex. One of the ‘struggles’ was porting the custom components. There are some things you need to be aware of when doing this because they are important for SWCs used by Flex, whilst it’s not important for Flash IDE-only SWCs: Custom SWCs need […]