Flash Player 10: 48KHz Sound Playback Bug

Update (2/25/2008): This bug has been fixed as of Flash Player version 10.0.22.87. Download the new version from Adobe: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Problem: Flash Player 10 distorts sounds sampled higher than 44KHz when using the loadSound function within ActionScript 2.0. This is a problem since many of the Flash mp3 players that exist today are written with [...]

Flashbelt 2009 Tickets

The first 100 Flashbelt Tickets are going for a sale price of $279. Flashbelt is a yearly conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota and focuses on RIA development. Confirmed speakers include: James Patterson (presstube), Hoss Gifford, Mario Klingemann (quasimondo), Joa Ebert, Seb Lee-Delisle (plug-in media), Drew Trujillo (dr. woohoo), Lisa Larson-Kelley, Geoff Stearns (youtube), Jeremy Thorp [...]

10 Steps to Improve Your Online Presence

I've read a number of blog posts about 10 things not to do or 6 reasons why you should do something and I'm finally giving in to the idea of an ordered list as a blog post.  One of the pitfalls of the ordered list approach is that everyone is different.  The only way everyone [...]

Skinning Flex Components – Part 1: CSS

This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to desolve the myth that Flex 3 can't truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning and multiple class [...]