I’m a big fan of the GAIA Flash Framework by Steven Sacks. So when the Chicago chapter of the Adobe User Group asked me to present a demonstration, I was stoked. These are the slide from my presentation, which also included some live examples in Flash. Unfortunately we didn’t capture the live demo, but I tried to put some extra info in the slides. The presentation was intended to touch on the very basics of GAIA, keeping things pretty high-level in order to serve as an introduction. I was thrilled to hear that many attendees were motivated to go to the GAIA web site and learn more about it.

It All Adds Up! Raytheon’s Sum Of All Thrills™ Experience Opens Today
New exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® showcases math in action as students design and experience their own ride using math fundamentals

In addition to the experience at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot®, Raytheon today unveiled a virtual Sum of all Thrills™ experience on-line at MathMovesU.com. The Sum of all Thrills™ world, aimed at middle school students, combines the three ride elements of the theme park experience into one multidimensional ride. Students answer math-related questions to unlock elements that enable them to build their own ride online.

Sum of all Thrills™ is the latest initiative in Raytheon’s MathMovesU program, which is committed to increasing students’ interest in math and engineering by engaging them with activities they enjoy most, such as sports, fashion and music. Sum of all Thrills™ joins Raytheon’s other MathMovesU programs including the “In the Numbers” game, partnership with the New England Patriots on display at The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon, the company’s three year sponsorship of the National MATHCOUNTS competition and the MathMovesU scholarship and grant program, which provides more than $1 million in funding to students and teachers each year.

Flash gave me this error today and I was unable to find a suitable explanation of the reason online, though it looks like plenty of people have encountered this. Upon further examination I found a way to reproduce the problem. Basically I was sending the same argument twice in a rather lengthy method signature, combined with the fact that I was trying to set the values of an object using “with” improperly (setting the values to the method args out of scope) in the method itself. In the end, it was just sloppy coding, but it is something to look out for.

I will post the code example when I get my stupid blog to format the text correctly, arggghhh!

I am the laziest person on the Web. Now my blog pulls links from my del.icio.us, save as posts in my blog, and push them as tweets to twitter.