Author Archives: keith

I'm in Brighton!

Posted on September 26, 2008 by keith

Finally made it after… about 16 hours of travel. Got to the airport a couple hours early like a good boy, to discover all flights to the UK were seriously backed up due to busted radar or something. Then, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | 5 Comments

Polar Distortion with Flash 10 drawTriangles

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

I was playing around with some of the new drawing API features for the new book and realized I could redo the Polar distortion class I did a while back. http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1167 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1187 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1194 It was amazingly easy: And it’s fast! … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 13 Comments

CS4 NOT Released!

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

All over the blogosphere (I hate that word, but what are you going to call it?), all I can read is about how CS4 was released today. Maybe I’m just nitpicking here, but CS4 was not released. It was announced. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 15 Comments

I like Flash CS4

Posted on September 23, 2008 by keith

[Just thought I should add a disclaimer here. I don’t work for Adobe. Nothing I say here or in the comments is official information about what will or will not be in Flash CS4. I do not have the final, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 56 Comments

Four Days to Brighton!

Posted on September 22, 2008 by keith

Four days from now I’ll be in Brighton for the annual Flash on the Beach bash. The last couple years I went up to London and hung out with Tink for a couple days before the conference itself, which was … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | 4 Comments

Maybe there's something to this SEO stuff…

Posted on September 20, 2008 by keith

Back in the end of July I decided to try out the All-in-One SEO Pack WordPress plugin, as mentioned here. I wasn’t sure what it would do for me, but just installed it, used the default settings and let it … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 5 Comments

CS4 a "Minor Update"… huh?

Posted on September 17, 2008 by keith

Just read an article over at AppleInsider detailing how “people privy to private demonstrations of Creative Suite 4” have judged it to be a minor update. OK, I don’t know much about what’s changing in the other apps, but did … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 37 Comments

The Robert Hodgin Show

Posted on September 17, 2008 by keith

You know Robert. His site, flight404 has been around since the early days of Flash. He’s the guy who doesn’t do Flash anymore, but speaks at all the Flash conferences. Yeah, that guy – the one where you leave his … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 5 Comments

Something big is on the way

Posted on September 15, 2008 by keith

http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/

Posted in Flash | 19 Comments

Happy Birthday to BIT-101!

Posted on September 11, 2008 by keith

On this day in 2001 (overshadowed by some other, more serious events 🙁 ) the DNS servers acknowledged a new entry in their collective databases, and for the first time in the history of the entire universe, any man, woman … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, General | 21 Comments