Labs

In AS2 we had Array.sortOn() and it worked fine if you had an array full of Objects with nice property names to sort on. But what happens when you have an array of MovieClips and you need to sort the array based on the Y axis? You'd have to pop/shift/unshift/slice/splice ... wait ... what?

I will be at FITC Hollywood next week, speaking on Monday afternoon. And in case you missed it .. I posted a code for a 10% discount a little while back. Hope to see some of you there.

Mike, Jamie and I had a great time at MAX in Chicago this week. Bringing home the MAX Award in the video category for the HBO Voyeur site was a high point, especially when the emcee announced me as Jeff Hirsch when I went up to accept the lucite brick trophy. Read on for some of other highlights for me.

Adobe AIR is a thrilling new frontier for anyone who is accustomed to building browser-based games and applications. To show off some of the cool features of Adobe AIR, I've built a fun little game inspired by a mini-game in the LucasArts series Monkey Island. I wrote the game in ActionScript 3 and created all of the animations on the Timeline in Flash CS3 Professional. I'll share with you some of the thinking that went into the design of the game, how I used Adobe AIR features such as the local database, custom chrome, file management, and cross-platform window control. Finally, I'll show you how to package and deploy the finished game to the desktop using the new Adobe AIR extension for Flash CS3 Professional.

You can read the article, download the game and get the source all at the brand new Adobe Developer Center.

And let me know what you think, too.