A potential vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit this potential vulnerability. Additional vulnerabilities have been addressed in this update. Adobe recommends users update to the most current version of Flash Player available for their platform.
More information about this security vulnerability is available at:
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After reading about the eBay Flex widget contest over at Doug's blog and seeing eBay changing the contest rules, to allow the use of open-source code licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, I got curious and went to the site. I registered, got the API access keys and tried a couple of samples they have for download. Just like Doug said: "thought maybe I’d whip something together and enter".
While I was brainstorming today with Bilou about possible things we could do, I went over to to read the FAQ again and saw this clause:
The eBay Developer Widget Build Off Contest 2008†(the “Contestâ€) is open to legal residents of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, Canada (excluding the province of Quebec) or the UK;
Since we're in Portugal, I guess we won't be entering this contest anymore. That's bad, why not open the contest for other developers?
Update: Sunny Li, from eBay, was kind enough to reply to us saying that the reason only US, CA and UK are allowed into the contest is purely legal. You can check his response here.
I first became interested in metaprogramming and metadata in Actionscript3 after reading about it on Ely Greenfield's blog here. What caught my eye at first glance was the use of flash.utils.describeType():XML, a method I've never seen anyone use in the past year of programming and reading about AS3.
- Papervision3D Workshop (by the Pv3D core team)
- Building Red5 Applications
- Chop the Hydra!
- Kaboom!!! Flash Pyrotechnics (and other particle effects)
- AIR Conditioning
- Adaptable Interfaces
- Flex Solutions For Your Daily Development
- etc..
(or Programmatically Detecting Memory Leaks in AS3 via Unit Tests)
I've been writing unit tests for a class that deals with the loading/unloading of different types of media files. One of the tests I would like to have is a check for memory leaks. This is especially important now that we have automated our builds, so we can known instantly if a new change in the code doesn't break the behavior we're expecting.
I've been gathering some guidelines to writing proper class documentation in Actionscript. This is so basic stuff but anyway it helps to have it written down somewhere. Here's what I have so far as general guidelines:
Use ASDoc block comments (Ctrl+Shift+D in Flex Builder).
Write in English.
Use a $Id$ svn/cvs keyword so everyone knows directly who did the last change on the file.
If importing to COM, write an example of usage.
Favor the use of getters and setters instead of public vars/const.
In the source code use the following order to keep things organized:
The flash.system.System class in Flex 3 SDK beta 3 has a new gc() static method that forces the garbage collection process (it works for Flash Player debugger version only). Previous to this method the only known way to force the garbage collection was the localConnection hack so this is good news.
Just saw the news about the new Flex Builder public Beta 3 and I must say I'm anxious to get my hands on it. I've been working with the previous beta 2 and suffering from the slow compile/refresh times that others have also observed. But since it was a Beta we couldn't really complain, could we?
This will be the last beta prior to the launch of Flex Builder 3 and Adobe promises an overall quality and performance improvement. The Matt Chotin's beta feature overview article is the place to go to read about what's new and I'm not saying anything else until I get my hands on this baby.
If you've been out of the loop or simply too busy to check it out, Flex Builder is basically a commercial programming environment for Actionscript programming that has been growing in both popularity and features.
