Category Archives: General

Zinc – A love hate relationship

Zinc! Who doesn’t know zinc? A long time ago, before the Adobe AIR runtime was available flash developers didn’t had much choice when developing desktop applications, screensavers, either you created an .exe / .dmg file directly out of the Flash IDE or like I mentioned before you bought Zinc! Let’s be fair, Zinc isn’t actually [...]

deMonsterDebugger goes 2.0.3

If you guys haven’t noticed it yet, deMonsterDebugger is now officially available in its new version, one of the features that absolutely rocks is the FPS/Memory monitor deMonsters built in. One of those features I was waiting for before switching completely from Alcon to deMonsterDebugger. If you guys haven’t downloaded it yet, then just click [...]

Flash at the Lake

If you are not twittering or living under a stone you couldn’t miss that the SFUG is organizing a Flash Platform conference in Zurich at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich on the 26 + 27 of June called Flash at the Lake Some speakers have already been announced Aral Balkan, Peter Elst, Mario Klingemann and [...]

DeMonstersDebugger an update

almost 2 weeks passed by and I saved an insane amount of time debugging my applications with DemonsterDebugger, it’s an amazing piece of work what these guys did and I’m looking forward to see more updates, as soon as I have a bit of time I will come up with a wishlist from my side, [...]

Flex 3: Tabbar event

Recently while working on an AIR app, I had to create some functionality when the user clicked on a different tab, therefore I wanted to simply check for the active tab using an event. Something that I have found was that as soon as you use a viewstack as a dataprovider no events will be [...]