After 6 good years with my current employer I have decided to part ways and share the love. As of the 5th of September I will be self employed and available for contract work.
For a detailed overview of my work and skill set - http://www.theloop.com.au/pulliese
Today I came across an annoying issue with a CS3 file that I had edited a month ago. I was required to make simple edits so I re-opened the fla file. It crashed every time I tried publishing, saving or simply viewing the action tab and could not figure out why. After hours of debugging I finally fixed the problem by simply copying it from the network to my desktop. Basically every time I tried opening the fla file from the network it crashed. I don't have an exact reason why this is happening because other files work fine, however this is the solution to fix it.
Until now Flash sites have not ranked well with search engines because they could not index them. For web developers or SEO specialists, this meant extra work.
In a press release on Tuesday Adobe announced that it was working with both Yahoo! and Google to enable indexing of Flash files. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed. Better still, current Flash content will be immediately searchable by search engines, without alteration.
David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe said:
Until now it has been extremely challenging to search the millions of RIAs (rich Internet applications) and dynamic content on the Web, so we are leading the charge in improving search of content that runs in Adobe Flash Player. We are initially working with Google and Yahoo! to significantly improve search of this rich content on the Web, and we intend to broaden the availability of this capability to benefit all content publishers, developers and end users.
Of course, all this assumes that the search engine has the Flash tech working: Google is rolling out Flash search today, but Yahoo! said it was going to enable the feature in a later release of its search engine and that it was “working with Adobe to determine the best possible implementation.” And no, Microsoft wasn’t mentioned at all.
However, Adobe’s statement does indicate Adobe will work with other search engines as well. With Microsoft having its Flash competitor, Silverlight, however, I’m wondering if that will slow things down between the two companies.
Adobe have announced that Flash 10 will be making it's way to the Android platform by the end of the year. In an announced at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Adobe revealed that they plan to 
release their first full-fledged Flash multimedia player for smartphones by the end of 2009.
"We've made a lot of progress, but there is still a lot of engineering work to be done," said Anup Murarka, director of partner development and technology strategy for Adobe's platform business unit.
Adobe are expected to demonstrate the Flash Player 10 for smartphones beta during the Mobile World Congress event.
Papervision3D is an open source 3D engine for Flash. Its fairly new but it has allowed flash developers to produce some amazing work. More information on Papervision3D can be found @ http://blog.papervision3d.org/.
Below are some of my favorite sites that make use of Papervision3D.
I always find my self trying to dig up old projects to rip out code for new project. So i decided to start saving re-usable code for me and others to use in form of a blog. This blog...
Hopefully you find it usefull as I have...
Peace!!!