Author Archives: derRaab

Safari Flash Player detection problems with ClickToFlash

Posted on 06/06/2011 by derRaab

I really like the concept of blocking Flash, mainly because I don’t see these unwanted, crappy developed Flash adds sucking performance, but also because it’s a nice way to recognise Flash parts in websites. You’ll have your own reasons. Safari … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Flash in Browser, Flash Player, Mac | Leave a comment

Linked List Performance Test using Getter or Interface

Posted on 21/04/2011 by derRaab

Another test regarding linked lists. Since I heavily use interfaces within the frameworks I’m working on I tried to define interfaces for my linked list items. I would love to use an abstract interface but with the full linked list … Continue reading →

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FFK11 – beyond tellerrand notes

Posted on 08/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m still not sure if “beyond tellerrand” is a subtitle or will become the new brand for the one and only Flashforum conference here in germany. Sascha Wolter and Marc Thiele did a great job as always and even I … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, AIR, Conference, Flash, Flash on iOS, Flex, iPhone / iPad | 3 Comments

#FFK11

Posted on 05/04/2011 by derRaab

Contact me if you’re there: @derRaab

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iOS development with AIR 2.6 using FDT and my new friend ANT

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

Adobe recently released AIR 2.6 with improved iOS support, so I finally had to get into using ADT with ANT. My editor of choice is FDT so I wanted to do as less extra work as possible. Mainly because I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, ANT, FDT, Flash, Flash on iOS, iPhone / iPad, Terminal | 4 Comments

SWF meta tag

Posted on 04/04/2011 by derRaab

I’m always searching for it so here is a useful blogpost. As the latest FDT version ( Beta 4 ) does not set compiler arguments concerning SWF-size, framerate etc. by default I started using SWF-Metatags to specify these settings. I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 1 Comment

Date.time vs. Date.setTime() getTime() performance

Posted on 24/03/2011 by derRaab

Using Date.setTime() and Date.getTime() is faster than Date.time. My quick speed test to determine the fastest way to get and set time values on Date objects: var date : Date = new Date(); var max : Number = date.time;   … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash | 4 Comments

Flash iOS packager update released!

Posted on 22/03/2011 by derRaab

Everything New in Adobe AIR 2.6 (read all on Christian Cantrells blog): Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding Owned Windows Bitmap Capture in StageWebView Microphone support on iOS StageWebView on iOS Multitasking on iOS Retina Support on iOS iOS Camera, CameraUI, and CameraRoll … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flash on iOS | 1 Comment

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Flash Player update

Posted on 10/02/2011 by derRaab

I really hate Flash Player updates just because it always takes me some time to figure out again how to update all of them on my Mac. Why isn’t there some kind of centralized Flash Player Manager? Well, as normal … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash Player | 3 Comments

Set WP-Syntax tab width

Posted on 01/02/2011 by derRaab

Since I’m using the WP-Syntax plug-in on my blog I tried to optimize font size and the tab width. Like a lot of developers I heavily use tabs in my source code. These tabs are really wide within the browser … Continue reading →

Posted in How To..., PHP | 4 Comments