In no particular order or domain, here are a few things that are itching me into 2009…

As I have the day to attend sessions, I’ll blog as I attend all the sessions I’m in. Turns out Tweeting is a good skill to have in doing live blogging.

Anyone hear about Adobe’s Open Screen Project? Well, good news if this is the first you’re hearing about it:
Basically, what’s happened is that Adobe wants Flash on as many screens and devices as possible. To do that, they’re pretty much COMPLETELY OPENING UP THE PLATFORM. What does “completely opening up the platform” actually mean?
* Removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications
* Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player
* Removing license fees – making next major releases of Adobe Flash …

So, in ActionScript 2.0, there existed such a thing as *attachSound* which would allow you to call on sounds in your library and iterate them in code much like you would call on movieclips in the library.
With ActionScript 3.0, there is no attachSound, so you need to do a little workaround. It took me a while to find this, but here you go:

import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
import flash.media.Sound;

var mySound:Sound;

var librarySound:Class = getDefinitionByName ( “nameOfYourSoundasLinkedFromTheLibrary” ) as Class;

mySound = new librarySound();

Basically, anything that you’re referring to as an Object in ActionScript 3.0 seems …

I took an approach of updating Luka Maras’ really nice code that makes buttons in that glassy “Web 2.0″ style from its original code in ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0.

Imagine if you had the means, the open-mindedness of the client and the management sponsorship to pull out all the stops and really produce a piece of learning that was fun, relevant and “just right” for the goals you were trying to meet with your learners? I’m at the end of such a project, on the eve of its launch, and I could not be more excited to predict a huge win for the first “serious” learning game in our organization.
I’ll be the first to admit, this project could’ve …

Adobe just released a free and open-source Java implementation of flash/flex remoting service called Blaze DS for Java.
This is pretty huge for people, as it supports remoting to the new AMF version (3) which just got documentation released, but it also supports remoting and polling over port 80 — so no more getting blocked out behind firewall constraints (a common theme today?). And, did I mention — it’s FREE?
So this will allow Flash and Flex developers to do realtime data manipulation with databases through this Java service — and …

e can trace the string coming back on consecutive data transactions with SCORM content and that’s definitely going on — pipes (|) are being sent the first time. Then, when they’re coming back, they’re URL-encoded. Then it looks like the URL encoding is changing the Ampersand (&) into something else…

If you want to see the wonders that Flash 5 Actionscripting brought back in the day (like 2000), check out this little learning game that got me hooked on the idea that Flash and Education combined could be a career.
Warning, the controls in the Flash 9 player are not as fluid as they used to be in Flash 5. The game also now runs so fast that it’s a lot jerkier than it used to be on a Pentium I

[](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789737027?ie=UTF8&tag=mrchompersnet-20) With my 3G iPod nano, I’ve run the course on getting my learn on as far as adjusting my fantasy football team or catching up on political satire. This weekend I was getting jiggy with ActionScript 3 and actively sought out what podcasts might be available, video or otherwise, on the subject.
I didn’t find much. However, I found at least one use of podcasting that are extending the official knowledge out there. I’ve been reading the [ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789737027?ie=UTF8&tag=mrchompersnet-20) by Gary Rosenzweig off my [Safari](http://safari.oreilly.com) …