 | 23 Aug 06:04 It’s been a while since I’ve done a pure programming post, so here we go. A co-worker just dropped by to ask whether I would expect timers in ActionScript 3.0 to be accurate. I said, “why yes, of course!” But there’s a wrinkle: if you set a Timer to go off indefinitely (i.e., with [... 2 Jul 04:59 Adobe Reader 9 is available as of today, and after you install it, you’ll see a new menu item under the File menu: “Create Adobe PDF using Acrobat.com”. Picking that item from the menu launches the Acrobat.com AIR application, which will let you create PDFs online, share files, conduct online meetings using ConnectNow, and [... 26 Jun 00:27 People are starting to use the recently released beta of Flash Player 10, which is full of new feature goodness. It’s just a beta and not in wide circulation yet, but we figured we better make sure Buzzword at least works with it, if for no other reason than we wanted to avoid getting bug [... 18 May 22:14 In a comment, Luke Bayes asked a question about Buzzword’s automated test framework that I thought I should answer a little more prominently. Why did we roll our own test framework? Well, one point from Daniel R.’s notes that I’d like to underscore is that we also use FlexUnit extensively to test the Buzzword code [... 12 May 19:52 I’ll be speaking tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 7:00 pm at the Boston Flex Users Group meeting held at Adobe’s offices in Newton. I’m going to cover one of my favorite topics, the testing framework we built inside of Buzzword. I’ll be demoing, live, how to record, train, and execute a test. See Buzzword generate code [... | | |