Jack Doyle is a genius (Grant Skinner also deserves mention, a genius in his own right). TweenLite (and TweenMax, and TweenNano, and Tween…) proves, yet again, that it is the best ActionScript tweening engine in the world. I haven’t been this excited about a tweening engine in a while. Check out the new features of [...]

Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robotjohnny/3629069606/sizes/l/

Zend Framework 1.7 has been released! Here’s what I’m excited about: Zend_Amf with support for AMF0 and AMF3 protocols Performance enhancements in Zend_Loader, Zend_Controller, and server components File transfer enhancements “In addition, almost three hundred bugs have been fixed” Download it today!

I ran into a rather annoying issue the other day related to content alignment in Flash; as usual, this problem exists exclusively in Internet Explorer. To be more specific, it is an issue with how the Flash Player ActiveX control is written. If you are aligning content in Flash that uses the Stage width or [...]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in … I encountered this weird PHP error today; if it happens to you it’s probably because you forgot to declare a variable by leaving off the ‘$’ prefix (e.g., ‘myVar’ instead of ‘$myVar’). More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paamayim_Nekudotayim. Obviously, it’s a fairly cryptic error message; albeit its [...]

Here’s a quick little “gotcha” when using the Zend PHP Framework: If you plan on using Flash at all (i.e., SWF or FLV files) be sure to append the necessary extensions the .htaccess file in the “public” folder to the rewrite rule: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|swf|flv)$ index.php Note the added “swf” and “flv” extensions. Otherwise [...]

Here’s a “heads up” to anyone who may be pulling his/her hair out wondering why NetStream won’t load an FLV. For whatever reason (I’m guessing it’s a bug), if you have a strongly-typed NetStream within a function, it will not work. For example, the following code will work on “_root”: var my_video:Video; // my_video is [...]

I wish I was informed earlier of the XML limitations in Firefox. I was racking my brain trying to figure out why my external XML entities were not working only to discover that this essential XML feature is unsupported by Firefox. This will NOT work: <!DOCTYPE root [ <!ENTITY sample SYSTEM "sample.xml"> ]> <root> &sample; [...]

Good things are coming to PHP, and sooner than expected: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/whats-new-php-5-3 Here’s a quick list: Namespaces Namespace Aliases Native MySQL Driver Class constants Late static binding I can’t wait to start using this.

I’ve been reading a lot about ASP.Net (with C#) recently. I want to learn to use ASP.Net proficiently so that I can add it to my web “toolkit” (development languages I’m familiar with). A major downside to learning a new language is that as you consistently practice the new, it seems that you lose your [...]