drawing a perfect circle with the curveTo function.

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Sep 10

I'm guessing most of you already know what the graphics.curveTo function is. As the name suggests, it allows you to draw a curved line that starts at a certain point, bends towards a control point, and ends in an anchor point. The starting point of the curve can be ...

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Sneak-peak to my session at Adobe MAX 2010

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Aug 10

Adobe MAX 2010 is less than 2 months away and while I'm in full preparation for my lab sessions I though I'd give a small teaser about what you can expect from it. The lab I'm doing is going to be ...

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Next CFUGBE event: Using ColdFusion in the real world, 7 Sept 2010, Mechelen

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Aug 10

For this event the ColdFusion User Group is working together with Ordina, who have been kind enough to let us use their facilities that are located right next to the E19 highway in Mechelen. As for the topics of this event, we have found a community member to come over ...

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by Steven | 1 comment | Filed Under: ColdFusion, Conference

the Monty Hall problem: A programmer’s approach

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Aug 10

I've always enjoyed mindgames, but there was always one riddle that I just couldn't wrap my head around. You may or may not have heard about the Monty Hall problem: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a sportscar; ...

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by Jan | 3 comments | Filed Under: ActionScript 3, Flash

Win a free MAX2010 entrance pass

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Aug 10

Hi everyone, Just as last year, Adobe is issuing a referral program. This allows you to win a free MAX2010 entrance ticket. Now how does it work? Well, there are 2 options you can choose from. Either you let others refer to your name when they book their entrance pass and when ...

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by Steven | 1 comment | Filed Under: Conference

estimating the duration of a Sound Object while loading.

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Jul 10

In case you never used the Sound class before, let me give you a brief introduction. The Sound class is found in the flash.media package and is used (hard not to be obvious here) for playing sounds. The constructor for the Sound class has 2 optional parameters: stream:URLRequest ...

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by Jan | 1 comment | Filed Under: ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex

multimediacollege records video tutorials for AdobePulse website

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Jul 10

Hi everyone, Some time ago I was asked by the Belgian Adobe Office to do a couple of video tutorials on the new Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 features. Naturally, I felt honored to be asked to do this, so I gladly complied and headed out to the Amsterdam office ...

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by Steven | 1 comment | Filed Under: CSS, Flash Builder, Flex

bye-bye Slider, hello Hero

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Jul 10

Maybe some of you have heard about "Slider", a spin-off of the Flex framework which should be optimised to be used on mobile devices. It was announced for the first time at the end of last year. However, yesterday Adobe announced that Slider will be dropped, because of the rapidly ...

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by Steven | 1 comment | Filed Under: Flex, Mobile

Upgrade your Adobe Connect User Experience – Saving bandwidth

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Jun 10

Adobe Connect is a compelling platform for hosting and attending online meetings, trainings, virtual trainingrooms and much more; and the cool thing it's Flash based. Some tips and tricks to help upgrade the user experience - without having to look for a network engineer! The more bandwidth, the better for ...

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by Frederik | 1 comment | Filed Under: Connect

Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 released

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Jun 10

Adobe has released a new version for their 2 runtimes, Flash Player and AIR. Naturally, with those releases come new and improved features as well. Let's take a look at what makes it worth to upgrade to the next version. Let's start with the new Flash Player. You can download it ...

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by Steven | no comments | Filed Under: AIR, ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex