We’ve been working a lot with the Google Maps Flash API lately; recent projects Ride Oregon and Oregon Bounty make regular use of Google Maps to plot various types of data. Each project raised unique challenges, the solutions to which were rarely found in … read more

After many requests, I’ve updated the demo and source files for the wildly popular labs post Using AS3 to Upload and Encode Images. Hope everyone finds it helpful.

The ability to proportionally scale an object to fit within, or fill a region is a powerful technique with a variety of applications. We used this approach on Logobama to allow users to upload any size photo and automatically scale it to fit within the available space, before … read more

Anyone who has ever tried to display transparent Flash content over HTML knows that getting things to sort properly on the z-index can be frustrating. Flash has an annoying tendency to force itself to render above of all other content Some browsers have trouble rendering … read more

I once heard Joshua Davis say that there is no Kick Ass button in Flash. While his point is valid, it looks like Adobe actually managed to include (at least) one with the upcoming release of Flash 10 (a.k.a. Astro).

The next release of Flash won’t … read more