10.0.2 is an awesome update. It adds stability, improves performance, and added a JSFL command to publish an .fla without opening it.

Unfortunately, I just found a bug with Expose that I can replicate every single time.

Create or open an .fla file.
Create or open another .fla file.

Expose. Everything is fine.

Click on the tab for the first .fla.

Expose. Flash is broken into pieces.

Click on the tab for the second .fla.

Expose. Everything is fine.

This is reproducible 100% of the time.

If you open multiple .fla files and you have any tab other than the first one selected, Flash is broken with Expose.

Gaia 3.1.2 has some awesome new features, including Runtime Font Loading (AS3), the new ByteArrayAsset (AS3), the ability to set the preloader delay, adds a missing function in IStyleSheet, panel performance optimization, and the ability to deauthorize the panel.

Runtime Font Loading allows you to easily access dynamically loaded fonts in any page or swf asset in your site.

The new ByteArrayAsset enables you to load raw bytes into Gaia. One use is to load in Bitmap or swf assets and create multiple instances of them from the same bytes.

The Gaia panel performance has been optimized to drop the framerate down to 0.1 when inactive, and only run at 10fps when active. You can also deauthorize the panel in case you buy a new computer or reinstall your operating system.

You can read more in the official release notes: http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/index.php/topic,1808.0.html

Apollocoders is a dead mailing list. Nobody posts there anymore. It's moderated and I've waited days for posts to show up. Stick a fork in it, it's done.

Introducing AIR Tight, the new Adobe AIR mailing list, a la Flashcoders/Flash Tiger.

Sign up now!

http://groups.google.com/group/air-tight

Gaia 3.1.0 adds some requested panel updates including relative class path injection, custom class path support in templates, spaces in folder paths, a new API method getSitePosition(), and some minor code edits in preparation for the upcoming HaXe version!

I'm extremely excited to attend FITC Toronto this month (April 26-28th). Not only is it my first time to Toronto, which I hear is an amazing city (I hear it's the best in all of Canada), not only am I speaking about my Gaia Framework, but the lineup this year is incredible. If you haven't bought your ticket yet or are still on the fence about going, you should definitely get on it before they're all gone. I love going to Flash events and here's a few reasons why this one is particularly awesome:

First up is Lee Brimelow. Lee is one of my favorite evangelists and is representing again, this time with an introduction to ByteArrays and a Flash CS4 Workshop. Plus, he'll be doing another of his famous Adobe Master Collection dead drops, which is guaranteed to have people running around Toronto at all hours hunting for it (myself included)!

R Blank always brings his trademarked energy and excitement and this year is no exception. He's giving a presentation called "Get off your ass and start using AS3 already!", and any presentation with expletives and exclamation points in its title must be good.

I'm definitely checking out the MTV Jackass on AIR presentation. I've about this AIR app and it sounded insanely bad ass. I'm looking forward to finding out more about how they built this.

It almost goes without saying that I'm looking forward to the legendary parties, getting to meet and hang out with the super stars in the industry, see old friends, and make new ones. It's a fantastic opportunity to network and have fun. I can't wait.

You can see all the presentations here: http://www.fitc.ca/event_detail.cfm?festival_id=79

And you can get tickets here: http://store2.fitc.ca/ticket_type.cfm?e=26

Looking forward to seeing you there! FYI, I'm giving my presentation on Gaia, Sunday April 26th from 1:40-2:40 (hint hint).

Cheers,
Steven Sacks

The Callaway Golf "Hit It Pure" game we built at Hello Design won an FWA on April 4th! Awesome!

Nemo Design is a design agency in Portland, Oregon and they used the Gaia Framework for their company website. It's well done and uses some of Gaia's cool features like overriding the preloader at runtime.

Keith Urban is a country music star and his new website was built using the Gaia Framework.

It's got some nice photography and interesting transition styles which look like they're triggered using Gaia's event hijacking. It also driven by a dynamically generated site.xml.

http://www.keithurban.net

It's my birthday, bitches!

Gaia 3.0.9 contains some requested feature updates, including an auto-generated static class for strictly-typed goto(), pre-site.xml-load initialization, a bug fix for the panel, and a fix for the scaffolding issue in Flash CS4 where the background would appear blank.

Another exciting announcement is that the Gaia Framework documentation is in the process of being translated into several languages, including (thus far) Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese, with Italian, French, Turkish, and Polish starting soon. Special thanks to all the volunteers who are helping with this effort.

If you would like to help with any of the above languages or one that is not currently being translated, please reply to this post on the forum.

The Gaia Panel will be translated into these languages during this process, as well!