This is a potentially annoying error that occurs in Safari/Chrome when you hit refresh or close a tab containing Flash content. If you have the debug player you see:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.
It can crash Safari or, in the case of Chrome, show a ‘broken plugin’ screen, shutting down every instance of Flash Player in the process.
Fortunately the fix is easy. To handle it you must add an IOErrorEvent listener to every Loader instance in your project, including the ‘root’ Loader (i.e. the class that is the base of your main SWF).
To handle the main SWF simply add the following code to your base class. In ‘onIOError’ you can handle the error silently should you wish.
root.loaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
Posted By }i{ on June 14, 2010
This is a nice open source tool from Adobe for reviewing and optimising your code. Although the set-up is a bit fiddly, I installed it on FDT without any issue.
To run the plug-in you simply select ‘Run PMD’ and a list of warnings is generated. Examples include ‘HeavyContructor’, ‘TooManyFunction’ and ‘UnusedParameter’. You can click on the classes listed to highlight the source of the suspect code and decide what action, if any, to take. Very similar in function to the way FDT handles ActionScript errors and warnings
Any standards/optimisation junkies out there will find this very useful. Granted you will no doubt end up ignoring many of the ‘violations’ highlighted, but it’s great when it does spot something you’re grateful to discover and happy to amend.
Click here to get started
Posted By }i{ on April 7, 2010
The first thing I did as a developer this year was to install a trial of FDT; the result of my ongoing frustration with Flex Builder and the persuasion of a swathe of developers I’ve worked with recently.
A week in and I must say I’m mightily impressed. The whole application is really responsive, much more so than Flex Builder, and some of the code generation tools are invaluable. For example I love that after adding an event listener the event handling method is automatically created with a couple of key presses.
Being Eclipse-based, overall FDT is very similar to Flex Builder. This made it exceptionally easy to make the transition and start exploring. I haven’t figured everything out yet, but have already used it to make a small widget and develop a prototype for an upcoming project for Diesel. It definitely feels like I’ll be sticking with FDT for the foreseeable future.
Posted By }i{ on January 12, 2010
Hooray! Our site for the new Playstation 3, www.the15reasons.com, is the FWA site of the day today. Really thrilled to have got two FWA’s this year, I think it’s my favourite award as a developer… even despite the lack of partying involved!
Read my previous post about the project here
Music experience:
Post production magic:
Posted By }i{ on December 9, 2009
This is simple but very handy little device that allows you to begin displaying your main application SWF before it’s actually loaded.
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Posted By }i{ on December 6, 2009
We have won Stink Digital’s first FWA SOTD award for our new site for Philips – Cinema 21:9, a.k.a Carousel. Special congrats to fellow Flashers Jamie (”FWA is so cool it’s uncool”) Copeland and Matt Sweetman, who worked with us on the project. Not bad for our first Flash project – Let’s make it number one of many 
And as if that wasn’t good enough, yesterday we got major props from Kanye West on his blog and got tweeted to APlusK’s 1,200,000 followers!
Posted By }i{ on April 20, 2009
I got a new job as a senior ActionScript dev at Stink Digital, a digital production house that brings together an awesome roster of film directors, with an equally awesome group of digital nerds conceiving and building great interactive stuffs. I’ll be concentrating full time on ActionScript/Flash/Flex now and there are some great projects coming up that I can’t wait to be involved in. Exciting times ahead…
Posted By }i{ on January 10, 2009
Colleague and JavaScript whiz kid Stephen Band just released his first jQuery plugin ‘jParallax’. Very nice stuff, he’s already used it to create a stunning presentation for an important pitch recently. Hopefully we’ll come up with a site concept that gives us a chance to exploit its coolness to devastating effect 
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Get it here: http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html
Posted By }i{ on August 26, 2008
I’ve been working on a couple of small freelance sites recently that needed content management. Being a big fan of WordPress as a blog platform I used this as an opportunity to try it out as a cms. Read More
Posted By }i{ on June 15, 2008
Candidata is a web application that enables posting of job opportunities on companies websites and for people to apply online for the vacancies. The client can then manage all the applications they receive and generate reports and so on. Read More
Posted By }i{ on May 2, 2008
Capital One – ‘Fast’ Email
Capital One – ‘Fast’ Game
When Capital One wanted to promote their newly streamlined referrals programme, we came up with a solution that was guaranteed to make a splash. Our task was to generate an exciting and innovative way of conveying the speed of the new employee referral programme.
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Posted By }i{ on March 25, 2003