http://playground.the1stmovement.com the1stMovement: Our Playground Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:13:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/misc/newsletter-special-collectors-first-edition/ 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 ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/flash/form-validation-with-regexp-in-as3/ 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 ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/flash/hd-video-on-web-in-action/ 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 ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/flash/fitc-hollywood-20-off/ 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: Adobe Media Player - a slick online/offline Flash video player eBay Destkop - the long awaited "San Dimas" eBay Desktop app and more here http://playground.the1stmovement.com/air/air-apps/ Renowned Flash Instructor and author of the "Essential Actionscript 3.0" Colin Moock is doing an intensive full day of AS3 Training in 10 cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, London, and more.. Don't miss it and go sign up now!  http://www.adobeas3tour.com/ http://playground.the1stmovement.com/misc/free-as3-training-class-in-10-cities/ Back in the summer of 2006, Dreamscape Films approached us (the1stMovement) with a very unique idea: A drama-series broadcast exclusively online and furthermore, let the Internet users choose the casts. As Geert Heetebrij and Helmut Schleppi, founders of DreamScape Films, put it: "Don't scale the gates of Hollywood. ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/viralmarketing/the-interior-new-internet-drama-series-in-private-beta/ The new Flash player Update 3 Beta 1 (build 9.0.60.120) has some of the biggest improvements I have seen. Download here. Most notably, it has the new mipmaps support which will significantly improve the quality and rendering of bitmaps for Papervision 3D content. Another one that I am ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/flash/flash-player-9-build-9060120-huge-performance-updates/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ Previously codenamed Apollo, Adobe launched AIR (Adobe Integrated Airtime). This version added HTML and AJAX support so you can create an .air application without Flash. The final version is expected to be released by end of the year. Adobe is also taking a nationwide bus tour for developers ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/misc/adobe-air-beta-on-air-bus-tour/ I came across this article (six ways to write more comprehensible code) while reading the BigSpaceShip Blog. It is definitely a good read for Flash developers as I have seen my fair share of Flash designers claim to be "developers" and write absolutely unmaintainable code. So I thought I would ... http://playground.the1stmovement.com/flash/six-ways-to-write-more-comprehensible-flash-actionscript-code/