Rain SVG

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Aaron Hardy wrote an excellent overview of SVG technology used at Rain to provide our clients with a robust set of tools for editing vector images online. We posted this as its own page as a reference on our blog. Check it out here.

Here are a few of our clients who have utilized our SVG library:

• ZenStudio
• AncestryPress
• Aspire

Academy of Information Technology Spring Conference

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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Bryce and Andy had the opportunity to talk to High School kids on careers in Flex/Flash design and development today at the Academy of Information Technology Spring Conference. It was a blast and I really think we changed some kids lives (or at least kept them awake).Here’s the PDF version of the presentation.

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…)

Beginner AS3 classes

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Monday, January 26th, 2009

Starting tomorrow morning and continuing weekly on Tuesday mornings, we will be holding some beginner AS3 classes at 8 am.   The focus will be on designers who are familiar with the Flash IDE, but would like to increase their scripting abilities. Tomorrow will be covering the basic building blocks for AS3, then in following weeks work towards topics such as:• Dynamic loaders (percentage, progress bars, etc.)• Button rollovers (specifically reversing the rollover movie on roll out)• Dynamic photo loader (i.e. slideshow)• Dynamic scrolling menu (like Kaliedoscope’s or the Nu Skin timeline)It is recommended that you come with a laptop with Flash cs4 installed.  This will be more hands-on than theory.If you have questions, contact Bryce at bryceb at mediarain dot com