Adobe AIR for iOS Development Gotchas

By On December 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Lately I’ve been diving into iOS game development using Adobe AIR 3.1 and have been really impressed by its overall performance and how easy it has been to get a game up and running. However, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing and I’ve run into a fair number of gotchas that I wanted to document [...]

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Adobe AIR for iOS Video Playback

By On October 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Adobe’s latest release of AIR (version 3) finally brings StageVideo to iOS AIR applications. Sadly, getting StageVideo to work properly within AIR was not exactly plug and play and took several hours before finally getting it to work. I’ve jotted down a few notes on the final solution, hopefully this post will help to save [...]

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Debugging the application's frame within Facebook

Debugging Facebook Applications for Fun and Profit – Firefox 4 & Firebug

By On April 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

Are you Facebook developer and frustrated by your inability to use a JavaScript console to debug your application on Facebook? Good news, with the release of Firefox 4 and the latest version of Firebug (1.7.0)- now you can!

To access an iframe Facebook application’s context enter cd(frames[0]); into your Firebug console. [...]

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Flash is Dead! Long Live Flash!

By On March 7, 2011 · 1 Comment

Heading to SXSW this year?

Join @Toby Miller and @I as we embark on a deep dive into the world of ‘Flash hating’, and what it means for the future of the internet. (#flashdebate)

Update 04/04/2011 – Embedded presentation below.

Since this is my first SXSW [...]

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How to Add an iframe to a FBML Tab

By On February 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Update – Facebook has released iframe support for Tabs. Please use this method of implementing iframes moving forward.

This is a temporary workaround for loading iframes into FBML tabs until FBML is fully deprecated in Q1 of 2011. This method requires a click to activate to load the iframe. Once the deprecation [...]

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How to Add a Facebook Like Button to a FBML Tab

By On January 3, 2011 · 6 Comments

Due to Facebook’s restrictions on JavaScript and iFrames within FBML tabs Like Buttons were once considered a feature of the Facebook elite, namely: Canvas Applications and external websites. Thankfully this walled garden is no more, and through a little CSS trickery we can commandeer the fb:comments’ Like button and bring its [...]

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