FlashScope is a brand new online marketplace to buy and sell flash components. They have flash files of any type and any sophistication you may need.  Over the next couple weeks I’ll be helping FlashScope with a product giveaway. I’m going to ask Flash/Flex/AIR/AS3 questions on twitter and the first person to email me with [...]

I’ll be presenting at the Denver Flex User’s Group on July 15th on RobotLegs. In addition I should also be presenting via Adobe Connect for the Nashville Flash Platform User Group in May. Here is some additional information about the presentation.
RobotLegs is an IoC framework that’s been rising on the Flex framework scene. It’s a [...]

Here’s the second episode of seantheflexguyTV! In this episode I talk about the upcoming Flash and the City conference in NYC. I also cover some of the new features and capabilities of AIR 2.0 and do a quick review of the Flex 3 with Java book. This episode should be a little more organized and [...]

Here’s the first episode of seantheflexguyTV! I’ll talk about several new Flex related tools and some software development books. I’d like to thank Jesse Warden for the inspiration and the nudge to get seantheflexguyTV started. More specifically in this episode I talk a little about: RobotLegs, Parsley, FlexPMD, RIATest, Hello Flex 4, Clean Code, 97 [...]

Taking a look at everyone’s “2009 In Review” blog posts is really great inspiration. Looking back over the last year is always worth taking a minute to do. It’s great to reflect on personal growth over the course of a year and take note of our accomplishments. I decided to recall the last year for [...]

Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0 with this open source API that I’ve created. You’ll need the Mindset hardware to utilize the full power of the API but you can run the ThinkGear Connector in “demo” mode and it will send simulated brain data to your app.
I’ve been interested in Brain [...]

Using an API can save time during the development process. The wonderful thing about the Flash Platform Community has always been the willingness to share. Here’s 34 more ActionScript 3.0 APIs that can be used for Flex, Flash and AIR development. Hopefully one of the APIs listed here or in one of my previous API [...]

For a good part of 2009 I had the extreme pleasure of working with Intridea on an open source AIR application for their Present.ly microblogging service. Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world. The service has a Twitter-compatible API [...]

Update 08/03/09: I’d like to congratulate Nephi and Brian for their participation in the book giveaway. They nailed the answer and emailed me in record time. I’ll be sending out your books this week. Great work guys!! Thanks to everyone else who sent in the answer and checking out the sample PDF.
The kind people at [...]

Flash decompilation is a touchy subject to many people. There is the unethical aspect that quickly comes into focus when talking about decompilation. There is a time where having a solid tool to handle decompilation is critical. If you’ve ever lost an FLA or had one become corrupt then you know this need well. Another [...]