Adding Server Side Captcha to Flash Forms
Problem: Flash forms are very vulnerable to attacks. Spiders may not be able to easily iterate through your Flash content but they can sure spam your form submission URL. How can you be sure your form was submitted through Flash? Definition: A CAPTCHA or Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. Solution: What if we have a user drag a circle onto a box? A spider would have a pretty hard time with that, right? WRONG. While this may be a good filter at the view level it s

Build a Flash Game in Under 3KB
Here are three Flash games each built in under 3KB and in less than 4 hours. They may not be Half Life 2 but they are entertaining! Try your luck at the racing game, platform game, and a space shooter that I like to call Little Ship vs. Space. Wait? Doesn't everybody have loads of bandwidth? Why create a game so small? Well, because it's fun, a good preparation for the 4KB challenge and most importantly size != entertainment. You may spend weeks designing, architecting, and developing a game only to find out it's not fun. Evolve your game. Build a 4KB game. If you enjo

Best of Flash on the Beach ‘09
Back in the U.S. and recovered from jet lag, I’ve compiled a list of the best sessions, restaurants, beer and more from FOTB09. Plenty of reasons to go back again next year! Best Session: Carlos Ulloa – Hello Enjoy. Carlos, the creator of PV3D, demoed three amazing projects. He even gave some insight as to how he solved challenges in those projects and provided a time line of effort between software packages. Best Code Jam: Joa Ebert – Live coding. All of the Jam sessions were great but Joa’s live coding was beyond words.

Flash Your TV: the suspense is killing me
A look at some press releases from January 2009. Wait… wasn’t that 8 months ago? Both Intel and Broadcom both talk about releasing Flash Lite supported hardware first half of 2009. What happened?   Intel and Adobe to Extend Flash Platform to TVs Jan 5, 2009 “Intel plans to ship the first CE3100 with support for an optimized implementation of Adobe Flash Lite before mid-2009.” “Adobe and Intel are also working together to bring an optimized implementation of Adobe® AIR™ technology to Intel’