Brian Behrens

So today I ran into the issue of getting superscripted ® and TM characters within dynamic text fields.  The  doesn’t work for this within flash, neither will any CSS trickery.  So I turned to font embeds after reading through some other blog posts. I found 2 fonts in a blog post at blog.ggshow.com: GG [...]

So today a co-worker of mine and I were trying to figure out why he couldn’t clear the display of an image in the video object on his stage.  The Adobe documentation states that if you use the clear method of the Video class that it should do the following: “Clears the image currently displayed [...]

Incase you haven’t heard the new yet today, Flash Player 10 has become public.  Looks like some exciting new stuff.  Check it out on Adobe Labs.  It’s not as significant as Flash Player 9, but it sounds pretty sweet still.  With native 3D support, will this be the death of Director?

Straight from the creators of google maps “street view”, there’s is now interactive video that you can scroll and navigate around in while the video plays. I think it shows how impressive flash player really is. Flash is pulling in an FLV file with the 360 degree picture. I believe they built their own 3D [...]

The flex tour came to Milwaukee yesterday. It was a pretty amazing demonstration about all the great new features in being released in Adobe Flex 3. I was pretty amazed with all the new features Kevin Hoyt presented at the meeting. I give a big thank you to C2 for helping with the event cordination. They always [...]

I’m not really sure what new incite it will bring to me in the field of object-oriented programming or actionscript 3.0, but the Adobe AS3 tour is coming to Chicago. adobeas3tour.com. I’m excited to see what “the man” himself has to offer in a classroom/lecture setting. I’m still upset I missed MAX! UPDATE: (Crappy photo [...]

Thanks to Coconut Skim Lattes and the early mornings spent at Alterra Foundry, I’ve been able to actually start reading the genius of Moock’s new book. I hope to be able to finish it this year. Amongst all of my work at Marx, the freelance, and life in general, I will do my best. I [...]

I love that he commented on working on snowboarding and gardening. Even the most brilliant of minds still have time to play! You can view the video on AIR… Bus Tour. I have the as3 Cookbook, but it’s time to go out and buy this one. I got an offer through O’Reilly to upgrade for [...]