July 31, 2003
Flash Player 7 - public beta
If you want to help test the newest version of the Flash player, get the goods.
Improved video performance, faster textfield scrolling, faster component initialization, along with a brand new update manager for the player itself.
Flash takes an XML nap
It appears that when you load XML into Flash, it freezes everything up until it has finished with the XML. Animation stops. Intervals stop. All code execution stops. The computer even has trouble doing OTHER unrelated tasks until this freeze is over.
Big XML files can make the user stare at the screen for quite a while wondering why nothing is responding. I guess the answer is to either chop the XML into multiple smaller files, or if the XML file doesn't change much, you could compile it into a SWF of its own and load that instead.
Argggg.
July 30, 2003
blooz
My new blues band had their first rehearsal last night. Everything went really well. This is gonna be great!
July 29, 2003
.com reunion
I get to see a bunch of old friends from my various .com employers this weekend. What a cool group of people I've had the pleasure to work and learn with over the years.
inter.logic.studios (which was acquired by...)
USWeb/CKS/Whittman-Hart/marchFirst (which went broke, and we started up...)
HotelTools (which was acquired by...)
Radiant Systems
July 28, 2003
Movable Type at last.
My webhost set me up with Movable Type. I hope to use this to set up an RSS feed to join the large Macromedia Flash web logging community.