February 10, 2008 05:13 pm
Not everyone had a great 2007. Take the Writers Guild of America for instance. Not one of their best years. By a long shot. Or Don Imus, Britney Spears or the NBA referees. None of these people can be said to have had a great 2007. We at The1stMovement, however, did. Our 2007 was superb. So what better occasion to debut our newsletter and to wish you an employed, racially tolerant, sane, non-mob tied and most of all, successful 2008?
Read more at http://www.the1stmovement.com/newsletter/feb2008.html
November 7, 2007 08:41 am
RegExp is a new native class for ActionScript 3 that lets you work with regular expressions, which are patterns that you can use to perform searches in strings and to replace text in strings. Natively supported by many programming languages, ActionScript 3.0 implements regular expressions as defined in the ECMAScript edition 3 language specification (ECMA-262). Specifically for Flash or Flex development, RegExp will most likely be useful for any data validation or search and replace any string.
For example, you would like to verify a string contains the letters “AS”, you would do
[ftf auto=”true” h=”50″]var pattern:RegExp = /AS/;
trace(pattern.test(”AS3″)) //true[/ftf]
The regular expression to see if a string contains the letter “AS” is /AS/ (remember the ‘/’ before and ‘/’ after the expression), and the above function defines a new RegExp Object and test it against a variable called sString.
There are a lot more complicated regular expression syntax, you can start from the Adobe AS3 LiveDocs here to learn more. Here’s a class we made to do simple form validation for AS3:
[ftf]/**
* Various Validation Methods for Forms
* @author Ming Chan (ming_chan@the1stmovement.com)
* @version 0.1
* @usage var formValidation:Validation= new Validation();
trace(formValidation.isValidName(”Name”))
*/
package com.the1stmovement.form {
public class Validation {
public function Validation() {
}
/**
* Validate not empty - has at least one non-whitespace character
* @param sString
* @return true or false
*/
public function isNotEmpty(sString:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /^\S{1,}$/
return pattern.test(sString);
}
/**
* Validate Name - The name can contain only alphabets(in either case) and should be of minimum length 3 with no maximum characters. Only white spaces are allowed apart from alphabets.
* @param sName:String Name
* @return true or false
*/
public function isValidName(sName:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /^([a-zA-z\s]{3,})$/
return pattern.test(sName);
}
/**
* Validate US State - either in upper case or lower case 2 letter abbreviation
* @param sState:String State
* @return true or false
*/
public function isValidUSState(sState:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /^(?:(A[KLRZ]|C[AOT]|D[CE]|FL|GA|HI|I[ADLN]|K[SY]|LA|M[ADEINOST]|N[CDEHJMVY]|O[HKR]|P[AR]|RI|S[CD]|T[NX]|UT|V[AIT]|W[AIVY]))$/i
return pattern.test(sState);
}
/**
* Validate US Zip code - match either a 5 digit ZIP code or a ZIP+4 code formatted as 5 digits, a hyphen, and another 4 digits. (34564-3342 or 90210)
* @param sZip:String Zip Code
* @return true or false
*/
public function isValidUSZip(sZip:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$/
return pattern.test(sZip);
}
/**
* Validate US Phone Number - allowing user to enter 10 digit telephone number with segments of number separated by hyphens, periods or spaces. Also braces allowed around area code. (213-123-1234 2131231234 (213) 123-1234 213.123.1234)
* @param sPhone:String Phone Number
* @return true or false
*/
public function isValidUSPhone(sPhone:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /^(\([2-9]|[2-9])(\d{2}|\d{2}\))(-|.|\s)?\d{3}(-|.|\s)?\d{4}$/
return pattern.test(sPhone);
}
/**
* Validates 1 or more email addresses. Email addresses can be delimited with either comma or semicolon. White space is allowed after delimiter, but not necessary.
* @param sEmails:String email addresses
* @return true or false
*/
public function isValidEmail(sEmails:String):Boolean{
var pattern:RegExp = /\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*([,;]\s*\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*)*/
return pattern.test(sEmails);
}
}
}[/ftf]
October 12, 2007 12:44 pm
Sometime in the next few months, Adobe is expected to incorporate the H.264 codec
in all Flash players with the general release of Flash Player 9. You can already download a beta version from Adobe Labs. The H.264 codec is part of MPEG-4 and is the codec that Apple uses to compress all of the video downloads on iTunes. Once H.264 is part of Flash, the quality of streaming video on the Web will roughly double at current bandwidth speeds.
Some video sharing sites already started implementing the player including Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/highdef)
October 11, 2007 08:49 am
Event highlights include:
- 50 + presentations and panels
- Presentations from Adobe, bigspaceship.com (Joshua Hirsch), Blitz (Ivan Todorov), Hello Design (David Lai) Trailer Park (Marcelo Guerra and Jason Seigler) and others
- Pre-festival workshops
- Free ‘Get A Job’ evening event
- Parties and other networking opportunities
For event details, go to http://www.fitc.ca/hollywood, and enter “hotshop20″ to get 20% off
October 1, 2007 08:53 am
As expected, at the Adobe Max Event in Chicago, Adobe launched a Beta 2 release of their AIR application, along with many good looking AIR apps including:
and more here
