http://elromdesign.com/blog Developing Flash Applications Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:43:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After completing my preso at 360|Flex San Jose I realized how many people are having difficulties starting with Test Driven Development (TDD). I had many people walking up to me and telling me about their interest of starting using TDD and how it's hard to get started. I ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/03/10/test-driven-development-tdd-with-flexunit-4-complete-tutorial/ Video and audio files that are deployed on platforms with constrain and limitations such as Web and Mobile devices need to be compressed from the original format. The compression is the usage of a codec (enCOder/DECoder) algorithm. Codecs, as their name implies, are programs that compress and decompress data. (There ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/02/20/10-most-popular-audio-video-file-format-used-by-flashplayer/ AIR 2.0 beta is available publicly and when I was asked by Adobe's marketing team, as well as Apress editor to post some recipes for Flex and AIR in the Adobe Developer connection Cookbooks I decided to combine the two. Adobe are looking to have the Cookbooks gain momentum & ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/02/01/10-recipes-on-adc-cookbooks-covering-air-20-new-apis/ MVC Frameworks are notorious for requiring developers to spend most of their time working on the framework's classes instead of the actual code. Since I posted the article about the Ant tasks for RobotLegs I was asked couple of times to show how to use the Ant tasks. ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/29/creating-a-webbrowser-app-using-robotlegs-mvcs-implementation-in-less-than-2-min/ Today Apple announced the release of the iPad. As someone that owns: iMac 29", Mac AIR, MacBook Pro and the iPhone I couldn't be more excited to get a hold of the new device. I had some doubts if Apple will install the Flash Player, but honestly I ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/27/dear-apple-i-will-be-using-fucktheipad-hashtag-till-you-install-flash-and-air/ Last night, I was part of the RIARadio recording about RobotLegs. I have been supportive of the framework ever since I was introduced to it by Joel. We had an awesome time talking about Frameworks, OOP and RobotLegs. I raised a question to Shaun Smith and Joel Hooks ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/23/robotlegs-presentation-model-access-entire-component-events-lifecycle/ I recently published an article on Flash&Flex Magazine about Flexunit 4 with Test Driven Development. You can download it from here: http://ffdmag.com/magazine/991-flash-and-mobile-apps-iphone-and-ipod-touch I decided to use a real life example to help reader better understand FlexUnit 4 and TDD. While trying to come up with an example, I realized that ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/19/flexunit-4-with-test-driven-development-article-on-ffdmag/ I am very pleased and honored to join the amazing list of Adobe Community Experts, now called Adobe Community Professional, this year. It is very gratifying to be acknowledged for the work one put into the Flash community and I will be continue my commitment to share my ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2010/01/19/i-am-very-pleased-and-honored-to-join-the-adobe-community-experts-now-called-adobe-community-professional/ It appears that Adobe closed some major security concerns with Flash Player 10.0.42.34 see here, however I believe these security concerns have changed the ability to access swf when setting Security.allowDomain. ASDOC says: "If two SWF files are served from different domains — for example, http://siteA.com/swfA.swf and http://siteB.com/siteB.swf — then, by default, ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2009/12/19/adobe-closed-major-security-concerns-with-flash-player-1004234-however-these-changes-may-effect-the-ability-to-access-swfs-when-setting-securityallowdomain/ RobotLegs is one of the newest AS3 Micro-Architecture framework out there and to help folks that are starting with Robotlegs, as well as make life easier for current Robotlegs users, I have created Ant script extensions that generate most of the code you need in order to work with RobotLegs ... http://elromdesign.com/blog/2009/12/10/lightweight-ant-script-extensions-generator-for-robotlegs-following-best-practices/