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We just released an update for FZip (the Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files): Added support for Adobe Air. The Adobe Air runtime provides a low level inflate method, making it possible to load any ZIP archive and decompress compressed files without the need of injecting Adler32 checksums. [...]

I have been toying around with the idea to write an Adobe Apollo application that’s able to monitor your favorite media player (such as Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Rhythmbox, etc) for play back status and song information. Last.fm provides an application along with plugins for pretty much all existing media players on all major [...]

Big propz to Adobe for sending me a set of HUGE (and beautiful!) Flex 2 and AS3 API posters! It didn’t even take a week to arrive here in São Paulo. Sah-weeet! Thanks a bunch, much apprechiated!

Just to let you know that i’ll be speaking at the 9th annual Flashconference in Stuttgart, Germany on May 4th. My presentation is about the new Actionscript 3 Flash UI Components that come with Adobe Flash CS3. I’ll give an overview on what’s new, what’s different with respect to previous components sets and Flex, if [...]

The DENG Modular XML Browser project finally has a new home. Over the last two years, i switched hostings twice (don’t ask), and DENG was scattered all over the internets, and many things got lost. I finally sat down to clean up the mess and everything is in one place again. The project homepage features [...]

An old friend of mine from Argentina contacted me recently and showed off his work. I was impressed. 6kbytes.com integrates all your messenger accounts (MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC) into one slick Flash 8 interface. And it’s all free. As far as i understood, communication is done via XMLSockets to a Jabber server that is used [...]

I just learned about Adobes “Mars” project via John Dowdell: Mars is the code name for a project developing an XML-based representation of PDF documents. Interesting. Reading the Mars FAQ on Adobe Labs, i found this little gem: Can an end-user create a Mars document? Anyone over the age of 18, or minors with parental [...]

In celebration of todays release of the Flash Player 9 for Linux beta, i finally updated the demo of FC64, our C64 emulator for Flash Player 9. Some time ago i implemented support for sprites and the lo-res bitmap mode, so quite some more games work on FC64 now, including Elite (see screenshot below – [...]

Tech-books publisher O’Reilly Media has launched Code Search, a single place to search all the code examples in every O’Reilly book – 2.6 million lines of code!

The fine folks at gotoandplay.it recently interviewed Darron and me about FC64 – what it’s about, how we did it, and what our plans are. Go check it out!