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...

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...

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...

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...

UPDATED: Tweetr has gotten an Update since this blog post. See this blog post 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...

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.

After having blogged about enhancing Flex Builder functionality, i also came across another useful extension. Snippets! As the name already tells you it allows you to create and insert snippets of code. Sadly it’s not as advanced as the template support in FDT. But, it’s better than nothing...

I’ve gotten very used to Eclipse over the past year or so. One feature i absolutely love is the fact that i can write comments prefixed with TODO or FIXME and a handy task window will keep track of those comments. Which in the end tells me exactly what needs to be done without having to seek out...

Happy me! I got invited by Adobe to what they call the Adobe Air Camp. 2 days of training by 3 of their evangelists all around the Adobe Integrated Runtime! Also there will be a contest where you will have to develope an AIR based application within 24 hours. Winner gets a brand spanking new Macbook...