I just did an image search for screen shots of older versions of Adobe Flash and stumbled on this gem of a site. I was particularly fond of the Flash Splash Screens and Corel Draw Splash Screens sections.

Take a walk down memory lane, laugh and wonder how the hell we ever got anything done 10 years ago. Enjoy!

So I've been meaning to write some posts related to experiences I've had and things I've read as they relate to the iPhone. However, I never actually got around to it. With the latest news out of the Adobe camp, as reported by Wallstreet Journal and CNN, regarding the development of a Flash Player for the iPhone has stirred up some old feelings, which at this point can no longer be ignored. So with that said I'm going to combine into one post. Read More »

Just completed an Actionscript 3.0 Language file for GeSHi. Pretty simple to put together, but fairly time consuming going through the Actionscript 3 documentation at Adobe.com and parsing through all the functions, classes, keywords, etc.

I should have the file up and ready for download soon. I still have a few tweaks to make so that everything parses correctly. Namely, reverse ordering the keywords. I'll have to write an automated script to do that. However, for now you can see an example of it in action. Just check out my Actionscript 3.0 — Full-screen Centered Flash post.

I'm using the CodeHighlighter plug-in on my site which uses GeSHi 1.0.7.17.

***UPDATE***

I've included the AS3 Language file here: GeSHi AS3 Language File v0.5

I converted an AS2 script I found for positioning full-screen, centered flash web sites to AS3. Couple of things changed and there was one instance where I got stumped because of syntax/function differences. Read More »