News Flash

It’s time for another round-up of Flash-related news from around the globe in another edition of News Flash!

When to Flash and when to Flex

Derrick Grigg asks the question “When to Flash and when to Flex?”, citing a perfect example of a company that developed a promotion entirely in Flex whereas Flash would have been the more obvious choice. Read more

Creating a Flash Facebook Application with the Facebook AS API

Self-professed Italian geek and programmer Emanuele Feronato provides a useful tutorial on how to create a Flash applicaiton for Facebook using the Facebook ActionScript API. Read more

GTween v2

Grant Skinner has announced the release of GTween v2. It’s a total rewrite of the GTween library focusing on size, speed, extensibility, and improving the readability of the code. Skinner declares that that the core library is “now just 3.5kb, and it’s 2-5X faster than beta 5 was.” Read more

ActionScript 3 Performance Optimization

Prompted by some of the work from Grant Skinner (in particular his FOTB 2009 session) and Thibault Imbert, Mike Chambers has been doing a lot of research lately into optimizing ActionScript 3 content. Not just how to make it run faster, but how to approach the process of optimization. Read more

Hype Update

We featured Joshua Davis’ HYPE Framework back in September on the ActiveDen blog, and today saw the release of a new, updated version. HYPE is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program. Read more

Sorenson Media Launches Sorenson Squeeze 6

Squeeze, the professional Flash video encoding leader since 2001 is now even better. Features a new, streamlined interface with notifications, automated review and approval workflow & automatic syndication and publishing options. Sorenson are also claiming performance speeds of up to 5x faster. Read more

The 20 Best Internet Flash Games

British newspaper The Telegraph have compiled a list of what they feel are the top 20 Flash games on the Web. I’m not sure they tried very hard with their list, but there are a couple of nuggets in there. Read more

Scott

Scott is the Down the FoxHole blog editor. He is also a reviewer for ActiveDen. Scott is a freelance Web and Interactive Media Designer having previously worked as the Lead Web Designer for a well-known children's hospital in the US for 8 years. Follow him on Twitter @scottwills

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