06.24.09
My Favorite Hosting Company
Bluehost is by far my favorite hosting company. Check them out. I use them for several sites for me personally and for business.
06.22.09
Flash for Android
So it seems that Android has jumped ahead of iPhone again and the launch of Flash Player 10 will be released in October during the Adobe Max confernce. Flash for Android is a big step for the mobile industry. Besides running the SkyFire browser on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones this is the first major release to allow Flash 10 content on mobile. Leave it to Google to be the first to run Flash Player 10 on mobile devices. Google seems to really have embraced Flash.
Check out the full article at www.tmonews.com
Flash Player 10 will be available on Android
03.21.09
Speaking at Elearning DevCon - Flash + Google Analytics = FLOOGLYTICS
I am excited to say that I will be speaking at the E-Learning DevCon. E-Learning DevCon is arguably the best Flash E-learning conference around. This is one of those hidden gems that people talk about long after they are gone. Some of the most respected E-learning and Interactive Instructional designers will be at this conference. Sign up quickly because it is filling up fast.
Presentation:
FLOOGLYTICS = Flash + Google Analytics
Flash and Google Analytics = FLOOGLYTICS
Flash has always been considered the ugly step sister in the world of SEO and Analytics. Well now Flash takes "Center Stage". Using Google Analytics data can be extracted from Flash that could never be pulled from HTML. This session will explore the ins-and-outs of how to setup Google Analytics to work most effectively with your Flash files and how to set up Flash to work most effectively with your Google Analytics account. Go beyond just seeing what users did. See what users meant to do or even wanted to do but didn't. The most important part of the equation is how to refine this gold that Flash and Google Analytics provide. Walk away from this session armed with the tools you need to implement Flooglytics and make your site effective.
Where:
E-Learning DevCon - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
When:
June 17th-19th 3:30 P.M.
So sign up for E-Learning DevCon and I let's make learning exciting again.
Happy Flashing,
Curtis J. Morley
Presenting at E-Learning DevCon - Cognitive Learning
I am excited to say that I will be speaking at the E-Learning DevCon. E-Learning DevCon is arguably the best Flash E-learning conference around. This is one of those hidden gems that people talk about long after they are gone. Some of the most respected E-learning and Interactive Instructional designers will be at this conference. Sign up quickly because it is filling up fast.
Presentation:
Cognitive Learning
Cognitive Learning Screenshot
This lecture will engage you and bring to life aspects of learning that are only now being tapped through technology. This style of learning walks through how technology can take learning from a passive experience to an engaged and cognitive experience. We will look at how the use of video and divergent paths can engage learners like never before. Curtis will show the product that has only been shown at one other conference - the Global Chinese Conference for Computing in Education. Come at let your brain be engaged.
Where:
E-Learning DevCon - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
When:
June 17th-19th 3:30 P.M.
So sign up for E-Learning DevCon and I let's make learning exciting again.
Happy Flashing,
Curtis J. Morley
03.12.09
No Wordpress Sidebar in IE
So I am an avid user of FireFox and rarely use IE for any of my regular browsing. Today I had IE open for testing some things and went to my site to lookup an error. When I went to the page it had no sidebar and no navigation what-so-ever. I tried many things to remedy the problem. I tried changing themes, disabling widgets, etc...
After some searching I went into the code of each of posts to see what could be causing IE to look so bad. Well it turns out that during the last Adobe Max I had copied and pasted a post from Microsoft Word into the post on Robert Burdick's presentation.
Keep reading to see how I fixed the missing WordPress sidebar for IE. Read the rest of this entry »
02.28.09
Update to AS3 Reference Error #1056
I added another description and scenario to AS3 Error 1056. If you didn't see your solution there before you may have the answer now.
Check out ActionScript 3 Error 1056
02.19.09
WARNING: Text field variable names are not supported in ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript WARNING: Text field variable names are not supported in ActionScript 3.0. The variable 'btnName' used for an unnamed text field will not be exported.
ActionScript Warning Description:
So I was going back to restructure a project that I had done in AS2 and a previous version of Flash. I thought I had converted all of the old AS2 code, and components, and naming conventions, etc... when this error popped up. The error made a lot of sense until I went to fix it. The image below is what I saw when I went to the place that I thought be the resolution to this error.
Text Field Variable Names not displaying in CS4/AS3
Flex / Flash Text Field Variable Warning Fix:
I searched around at other buttons and tried to find something else that might have been it even though I knew that this was the correct text field. The way to solve this is to revert back to AS2 in your publish settings ( FILE >> PUBLISH SETTINGS >> SCRIPT drop down) and then go back to the text field in question and you will be able to delete the variable name. Don't forge to return to ActionScript 3.0 after you delete the variable name.
File >> Publish Settings >> Script Option
and with this option selected you can then delete the variable name as shown below.
Text Field Variable Names not displaying in AS2
This should help you resolve Flex / Flash Text Field Variable Warning
Thanks and as always Happy Flashing
Curtis J. Morley
02.12.09
The Best Free Project Timer
Jacob Wright has developed the best Project Timer available for download. Jac has done a great job on tracking times that can be separated by Client, Project, and Task. Jac calls the free AIR download ................ Project Tracker.
Free Project Timer
This is one excellent and easy to use project timer. I can imagine that consultants would find this project timer invaluable as well entire agencies that need project timing could use this AIR app.
Click here to get Jacob Wrights Free Project Timer
Thanks Jac for creating such a great Project Timer. Jac even threw in a really cool desktop icon.
Project Tracker Icon
01.10.09
My Second Favorite Error
So my very favorite error is one Dreamweaver tried to pull. The "No Error" error.
I got this "Mystery Meat" error when uninstalling Quicktime. I clicked "OK". I hope that I don't get any Apple viruses. 
This error is even more nondescript than the "No Error" error. Their isn't much to say about this error other than "hmmmmmm..... should I pick the red pill or the blue pill?"
They really don't want me know what I chose.
01.03.09
AS3 Error #1126: Function does not have a body.
ActionScript Error 1126: Function does not have a body.
ActionScript Error 1126 Description:
I got this error from one of my UVU students code. And as promised in honor of her I am thusly naming AS3 Error 1126 the Erin Johnson Error. This error is given, in this case, because a semicolon is used instead of a colon after the parenthesis. A colon in the ActionScript language is equivalent to a period in the English Language and so the
Flex / Flash Error #1126 Fix:
Replace the semicolon with a colon.
Bad Code 1:
function someFunc(event:MouseEvent);void
{
doSomething();
}
Good Code 1:
function someFunc(event:MouseEvent):void
{
doSomething();
}
Related Errors:
ActionScript Error 1084: Syntax error: expecting colon before leftparen. This error is a psuedo error in this case because once AS3 Error 1126 is reslved this error will also disappear.
This should help you resolve Flex / Flash Error #1126
Thanks and as always Happy Flashing
Curtis J. Morley