 | News by Doug McCune 31 May 01:40 I’m speaking at the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, England in September! I’m really excited about this conference because it’s not a Flex conference, it’s a Flash conference (but of course there will be plenty of Flex represented). I’ve got a little notoriety among you Flex developers, but Flash guys are like, “Doug [... 30 May 15:01 This is a quick post to about a few of the conferences I’m either speaking at, going to, or regretting not being able to attend. 360|Flex When: August 18-20, 2008 Where: San Jose, CA I can’t go! Nooo! I’ll be in Sweden. I might make it back in time to come and hang out with people at one [... 27 May 11:46 Recently I haven’t been blogging at all. I’ve largely fallen off the face of the earth. Take a look at my sent emails from the past week and see if you can figure out why. I use colored labels in gmail to help easily categorize emails. The blue just means it was an email I received [... 18 May 06:37 No joke, I just got this shirt in the mail from my dad. Thanks Dad. 3 May 10:52 Dan McAdams has posted a quick guide to help people get up and running with the CoverFlow Flex component SWC file. This component has generated a lot of interest, which is great, but it also means that there are a lot of people who are brand new to Flex (and hence don’t know how to [... 26 Apr 07:31 I was contacted by Justin Ouellette, the creator of Muxtape, who asked that I remove the download functionality from MuxMaster. I’m torn about this issue, on one hand Muxtape is a service based on technology that makes distributing MP3s extremely easy. Justin has chosen to hide this capability because he’s appropriately scared of the consequences [... 26 Apr 03:35 MuxMaster is an open-source desktop player to browse, play, and download Muxtape mixes. It is an AIR application that lets you stream music from Muxtape, explore different mixes to find new music, and even download tracks and entire playlists to your computer with a single click. UPDATE: After being contacted by the creator of Muxtape [... 14 Apr 14:56 OK, so get this. I just tried to reply to someone’s question on the flexcoders mailing list. I hit send and instantly I get a reply (instantly as in a few milliseconds). The reply is from Google telling me they have blocked my message from being sent to the mailing list. Here’s the message I [... 4 Apr 15:12 Here’s a simple motion detection utility that you can use to do motion detection on a webcam, or video, or any other component in your Flex application. It uses a bitmap technique to compare image snapshots and calculate the number of pixels that were changed between snapshots. This gives you a percentage of the total [... 20 Mar 05:58 UPDATE: all the invites got used up quickly, sorry if you missed them. If I have any more SlideRocket invites in the future I’ll post about them. You can still enter your email address and the SlideRocket team will let you know when they let more people into the beta. I’ve got 20 SlideRocket invites to [... | | | |