M Studio Labs

Here’s a little utility that allows you to batch-resize or crop images and output as JPG — along with the source code. If you’re not familiar with AIR, you just need to download AIR first before you download & install the Image Resizer:

Download Adobe AIR here

Download the AIR Image Resizer here

Download the source files here

Also a few notes that might be of interest to developers:

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Just ran into this today. I was compiling an AIR application and previewing it in AIR Debug Launcher and got the following error:

“invalid application descriptor: descriptor version does not match runtime version”

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Matt and I gave our Drupal/Flash presentation yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came out, we got some really good feedback from the audience. The link to the demo site and source files is:
http://fitc.sisutastic.com/

A couple of other really interesting technologies I hadn’t heard about before:

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De MonsterDebugger is an incredible new AIR app from De Monsters which allows you to debug AS3 Actionscript/Flex projects on the fly. With it, you can trace output statements, view your app’s tree structure, live-edit code and test methods.
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Just a quick note from the FITC Event Directors — you can still get early bird pricing until midnight on Wednesday Feb 18.

*Special M Studio 20% discount code: mstudio

If you want more info on the event or need to order tix, here’s the link.

Also if you haven’t seen the post below, I’ll be giving a presentation along with Sisu on Flash and Drupal.

To save on bandwidth, we often load transparent external images as SWF’s instead of PNG’s. It’s a bit more production work but it makes everything load a whole lot faster, as SWF uses JPEG compression on the image while maintaining the PNG’s transparency.
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I’m going to be presenting at FITC Toronto April 25-28 (exact date TBD). I’ll be presenting with Matt Ronchetti from Sisu about integrating Flash and Drupal. Drupal is an incredible, easy-to-use CMS framework (open-source too). We’ve been using Drupal quite a bit to pass data into Flash — there are a bunch of different methods for doing so, and we’ll cover the pros and cons of each. Looking forward to it!

If you’re going to the conference and want to meet up, drop me a line.

This sounds like a great free event, put on by flex.actionscript.it. The event date is conveniently set one day after FITC Amsterdam ends, so you won’t miss out on anything. Topics include:

• Flex Design Patterns
• Cairngorm vs Pure MVC
• Adobe AIR
• Tools (FDT/Ant)
• Flex integration with ZendAMF

For more information, check out event details here.

This is an error just about everyone runs into when loading data across a domain or testing locally. There are a couple of workarounds, which I’ll describe in detail in this post…
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