Monthly Archives: July 2005

Connecting to CVS & SVN Repositories with Eclipse - Eclipse for Flash Dummies Series

I’m sure this is old hat for all the “real” developers in the Flash community, but I recently began exploring downloading source files from CVS and Subversion using Eclipse. CVS and Subversion are version control repositories which allow you to track the history of source files. They are especially useful for teams where multiple developers [...]

First Taste of Flash Player 8 Beta

For those of you, like moi, who have been confined to the outer fringe–limited to sneak peaks–of updates regarding the upcoming player and IDE (Flash is apparently one hot chick when it comes to beta testing); today, is a very good day. Our first chance to taste the future has arrived in the form of [...]

Creating Custom Components: Part Deux

Great v2 component resources keep coming to my attention following my initial Creating Custom Components blog entry of two weeks ago. Greg Hammer, Manager of the Las Vegas Macromedia Users Group, turned me on to an excellent tutorial on creating custom v2 architecture components which is made available courtesy of laflash.org (User Groups Rock!!). [...]

Flash Search Engine Optimization Anyone?

Peter Hall just setup a new open source project on the OSFlash wiki called Ripple. Ripple is a framework for developing Flash movies that allows search engines to easily index and deep link flash content. Low rankings and the inability to take advantage of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques, or even consultants for that matter, [...]