Kevin Hoyt

Well, another MAX North America has come and gone. In general, my perceptions of this year’s event puts it at among the best we have ever been able to put on - going back to Allaire, and Dev Con in Washington, D.C. Certainly, no event with record attendance of over 5,000 is going to please everybody, but the MAX team came really close. I had a total of six hands-on labs presentations, and an unconference presentation as well. Needless to say, I kept busy. Here’s a few thoughts on MAX 2008, as well as descriptions and content for my sessions.

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If you have followed my blog for long, you will know that I am a bit obsessed with image processing. It has been a while since I have posted anything on the topic, so I thought it was about time to revisit the subject. I have a customer that has been doing a lot with image processing, and they wanted to know how to get dimensions of an image file without having to load it onto the display list first. While JPEG files can sometimes contain EXIF data, the customer also wanted sizing information for GIF and PNG files.
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There are many compelling features in Flash Player 10, but if you are a nut about data (like me), then local file IO is probably the one that gets your attention. It turns out that using this new feature couldn’t be easier. There’s a couple new methods on the FileReference class and you are off to the races. I wanted to test this functionality out myself, so I built a little application to read iCalendar files.
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