Archive for February, 2009
Flash Player Update Now Available
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Today Adobe released an update to the Flash Player that addresses some security issues found in the Flash Player. Among the issues this update resolves are some that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of a user’s system, and prevention of a possible “clickjacking” attack.Adobe has designated this update as “critical”, and recommends that all users update to Flash Player 10.0.22.87. In addition, users of Adobe AIR-based applications should also update to Adobe AIR 1.5.1.Developers who need the debugger version of the Flash Player, or to apply the update to their copy of Flash CS4 Professional should download the updates from the Adobe Flash Player Support Center.Full details of the update can be found in the Security Bulletin posted by Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-01.html
Events 101
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
For this week’s training, we’re going to discuss Events in ActionScript. This will be a two-part training, with part one focusing on the basics of events, and how to use them, with part two covering more advanced uses of events.ActionScript is an event-driven language. Once a SWF file has been opened and the initial constructor code has run, pretty much all other code in the file is driven by events. As a result, ActionScript developers need to have a solid understanding of what events are, how they work, and how to use them. (more…)
Archive for February, 2009
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