Only 4 days left till the first Swiss Flash User Group Conference opens its doors to the public. Have you gotten your tickets already ? If not, this might give you an overview of what you can expect, besides a beautiful view at the lake: The SwissFlashUserGroup will be inviting all Flash designers and developers, project managers, illustrators, and...

I had the fun opportunity to showcase the newest debugging star in town at the latest Swiss Flash User Group Meeting. The name ?  De MonsterDebugger ! De MonsterDebugger is an open source debugger for Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR. De MonsterDebugger is made in Flex and AIR by design studio De Monsters. It’s awesome feature-set sure help making...

As promised, i just updated my Tweetr AS3 Library. For those who do not know what Tweetr is – Tweetr is a simple to use AS3 Twitter API Library, including practically all twitter and twitter search API features  and an URLShortener Class. The new version sports the following improvements: couple fixes to authentication for a couple GET Requests a...

The 23. Open Meeting of the SFUG is at hand. On March 17, 2009 we meet up at the offices of .nemos once again to discuss our favorite topic, the Flash Platform. This time Flash veterans will get infos on how they can profit from using Flex and what has to be kept in mind when using Flex. I will be holding a talk about DeMonsterDebugger and why it has...

As from today i am very proud to announce that this blog is aggregated by the world famous Adobe feeds aggregator. In hopes to contribute a thing or two, welcome to all the new readers :)

Grant Skinner has started a great Challenge for all Flash Developers. #tweetcoding the name, 140 characters the game! The rules are quite simple. A coding template is provided and you get 140 characters of code you can create something colorful with. Once your happy you twitter it :) You can see all entries of the first contest right here: http://tweetcoding.machine501.com/ So,...

UPDATED: Tweetr has gotten an Update since this blog post. See http://blog.swfjunkie.com/2009/03/updated-tweetr-as3-library/ for more infos. While i was developing  Twidget , i started building up a AS3 Library for using the Twitter API, since the only other library i found seemed a bit painful to use. So after taking some additional time to generate...

A while ago, i ordered myself some Phidgets since i was wanting to get some for quite some time and love the idea of beeing able to manipulate hardware through actionscript. I also couldn’t deny my love for everything that emits lights, so my choice of getting the Phidget LCD Interface was close at hand ;). Well, i found some time and actually...

Got what it takes ? What are you waiting for!?

It’s been sitting around forever on my todo list but it’s finally done. I have the pleasure to announce to you that my Actionscript 2 Coverflow Clone which is loaded with tons of features has gone open source! Find out more by reading the whole blog entry over at blog.liip.ch.