Clearing A BitmapData’s Contents

06/09/2008 05:00 pm by EVOLVE in Tips & Tricks

I've been using BitmapData lately more and more (I know, I'm very late to the party) and something that I was curious in was how to clear it before I can draw to it again so that the previous frame's contents are not in it. Particularly, I was wondering how I can very simply [...]

Nadal’s Numbers on Clay

06/09/2008 03:31 pm in Tennis

Audio-enabled Physics Engine Example

06/09/2008 02:16 pm by joeberkovitz.com » Flex in Flex

I thought I’d put up a fun demo SWF from my “Flash Bang” talk of a couple of weeks ago. This is an example of what can be done with the new FlashPlayer 10 (”Astro”) Sound API; it synthesizes sounds on the fly that are synchronized with colliding objects in a simple physical [...]

Audio-enabled Physics Engine Example

06/09/2008 02:16 pm in Flex

I thought I’d put up a fun demo SWF from my “Flash Bang” talk of a couple of weeks ago. This is an example of what can be done with the new FlashPlayer 10 (”Astro”) Sound API; it synthesizes sounds on the fly that are synchronized with colliding objects in a simple physical simulation. [...]

Filesystem & file organization in Linux

06/09/2008 11:54 am by Brajeshwar in Technology

A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn't differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!

Filesystem & file organization in Linux

06/09/2008 11:54 am by Brajeshwar in Linux

A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn't differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!

Snackr v0.34 TEST build released

06/09/2008 08:56 am in Snackr

I’m starting to post interim test builds of Snackr on Google Code; these aren’t pushed out through autoupdate, so you’ll need to download them manually. The first test build, 0.34 TEST, has a few new features and a number of bug fixes. The new features are: Implemented ability to “star” items so you can read them [...]

FlashBelt source files

06/09/2008 08:28 am by Seb Lee-Delisle in Flash

Here are the source files for today’s Papervision3D, Simplified session. Enjoy!

Clone Stamp Tool Art with Flash CS3

06/09/2008 01:23 am in Flash

While I was last minute preparing my session for Flashbelt (tomorrow afternoon) in the Flashbelt hotel loby at Minneapolis today I started building a clone stamp tool in Flash. The concept is the same as you know from Photoshop. But afterwards I was thinking to misuse (+?) it to create some generative art thingy with [...]

Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 1

06/08/2008 11:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Thinking Loud

HTML Most internet users are yet to figure out what it means when a tool tip slides down the browser window with blocked pop-ups or missing plugins. If your target audience is largely made up of such users, using flash is a bad idea. Flash sites are without doubt beautiful. But think twice before using flash, and [...]

Cricket Nirvana Releases AIR Cricket Desktop

06/08/2008 10:35 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in AIR

I know that most Americans would not rank cricket as one of their favorite sports. Heck, I think most Americans are not quite sure what cricket is, other than it being loosely related to baseball (make that very loosely) and that it uses funny shaped bats. But outside of the U.S. cricket is a very popular sport, and in India cricket is more popular than any other sport. Nimbus Sports has media operations in over 60 countries, and runs the Neo Sports TV channel with millions of viewers in India. To make following cricket more interactive and personal, Adobe India partnered with Nimbus Sports to create Cricket Center, an AIR powered desktop app that allows cricket lovers to watch obtain match details, access live scorecards, obtain player stats, and more.

An Open Message To Gert Franz And Railo

06/08/2008 07:02 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

Last week Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, announced that Railo 3.1 will be open sourced, that the new LPGL2 licensed project will be hosted at JBoss.org, and that the JBoss community will be contributing to the enhancement of core functionality. I've known Gert for a long time. We first met in Zurich back in 2001, and out paths have crossed repeatedly over the years. Gert has always been professional, respectful, and forthright, despite the fact that he had created a ColdFusion clone (and thus was a competitor). Gert has repeatedly demonstrated his commitment to the ColdFusion community, and has made a point to never be antagonistic or divisive, and to always be open and honest, despite us being competitors. In fact, before he made the announcement last week, he requested a meeting with the ColdFusion team leaders to give them advanced notice and to chat about positioning and the future. He even asked me to eyeball the joint JBoss Railo press release, just to make sure that it contained nothing objectionable or unnecessarily divisive. I'm not a fool, and I know that Gert's actions are not entirely altruistic - at the end of the day he has a business to run and needs to do what is in his business' best interests. But at the same time, he has gone out of his way to balance those interests with those of the community in general. He has never badmouthed ColdFusion or the community, he has never tried to sell his product by putting down ours, he has never actively tried to drive our developers away from the core platform, and he's always tried to sell his product on its strengths, playing fairly and honestly. And that's not something that I can say about all of the players in this space. Could the JBoss Railo relationship impact ColdFusion sales? Yes, of course it could. So why am I not worried about Railo's new announcement and direction? Why do I think that this is actually a very positive direction? Because unlike some other relationships, this one does indeed have the best interests of the community at heart. Neither Railo nor JBoss see ColdFusion apps as legacy, and they don't see their only business model as in converting ColdFusion developers to Java or to .NET. Rather, they see the value that is CFML and the ColdFusion community, and they want to enhance it and expose it to the wider Java community. Which means that very realistically this relationship could significantly raise ColdFusion and CFML awareness, and could enhance ColdFusion's reputation and visibility, and could even help grow the size of the community and the number of deployments. And at the end of the day, if that were to occur, then the entire community would benefit, including ColdFusion and its customers and users. So Gert, I wish you and your team much luck on this new endeavor. And I am looking forward to working together with you to further the interests of our respective companies, while at the same time ensuring a thriving future for ColdFusion and the ColdFusion community.

Jumping through Hoops with Acrobat

06/08/2008 03:32 pm by Flex RIA United in Technology

PDF files are used on hundreds of different sites, they’re something that you either love or hate! Adobe created the PDF format in 1993, so by computer standards it’s prehistoric! Adobe has recently launched a new version of their PDF reader software, this one is called Reader 9. I’m not really a big fan of Acrobat [...]

dOMi Preview - its Papervision, punk

06/08/2008 02:49 pm by paulofierro.com in

The past couple of days I've had alot of fun putting together a preview site for my buddy's band dOMi. They have a full-length album coming out at the end of August and we plan on building a web presence that is on par with the music, but until then we agreed that the plain ol' HTML page that was in place should be replaced.

Playing with Papervision has been on my to-do list for a long time (if you're going to the Papervision workshop at FOTB I'll see you there :) so I checked out the Great White branch (version 2.0 in alpha) because I figured why not play with the bleeding edge, I'm pretty sure my vaccines are up to date.

I know next to nothing when it comes to 3D modelling so we just tried to play with some basic primitives and see if we couldn't come up with something. The first attempt at something was this spinning plane with just the cover. Its ok, but we wanted more so we mapped the Photoshop comps of the cover onto a cube and moved things around a little bit to make a fluid layout that would scale nicely on a larger monitor but still look OK on 800x600. I quickly learned that Flex and its layout schemes had spoiled me. Then we found a way to make certain parts of the back cover be clickable with this great hack, in order to allow people to play the pre-release tracks from the track list itself.

Lastly was figuring out how to do a preloader in a pure AS3 project in FlexBuider, but thankfully and as always Keith Peters had a post that shows you exactly how do it. And just for me, arrow key listeners to make that sucka spin just because it can! :)

Anyways, tada! The dOMi preview site for Welcome to Annoying Town, out August 29th! Come to the show at John Dee!

Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a PC - Sony PS3 Computer Mod Hacks - Popular Mechanics [del.icio.us]

06/08/2008 11:37 am by paulofierro.com in linux ps3

Yo!

06/08/2008 09:53 am by Manish Jethani in

If you found some of my old entries show up in your feed reader, it's because I've been playing with LiveJournal and Yahoo! Pipes this morning. Apologies.

In other news, I'm off to Denmark tonight. It was getting too hot here in India.

Nominate Flex for a SourceForge.net Community Award

06/08/2008 12:07 am by The Official Flex Team Blog in General

The SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards are open, and wouldn't it be great if Flex were a winner? Click here to nominate Flex SDK and select the "Best Tool or Utility for Developers" category.

Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 0

06/07/2008 11:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Thinking Loud

Despite Flash Search Engine SDK, and any other methods that search engines employ to crawl flash sites, a debate has been going on. On one side are those who believe that flash sites can be optimized to climb up the search engine ladder, and on the other side are those who say that it is [...]

Scotch on the Rocks review

06/07/2008 10:46 pm by Peter Elst in Events

… or a look at ColdFusion from a Flash/Flex developers perspective. I just got back from four days in beautiful Edinburgh for an event I would likely not have attended were it not that I was invited to speak there. Scotch on the Rocks is one of barely a handful of what I’d call real “community driven [...]

Get your Virtual Office in India

06/07/2008 09:31 pm by Brajeshwar in Asides

The virtual office, an innovative add-on to the serviced office format, is typically used by upcoming entrepreneurs. It provides them with an address in a business centre located in a prestigious location and meeting room space whenever necessary.

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Clearing A BitmapData’s Contents

Nadal’s Numbers on Clay

Audio-enabled Physics Engine Example

Audio-enabled Physics Engine Example

Filesystem & file organization in Linux

Filesystem & file organization in Linux

Snackr v0.34 TEST build released

FlashBelt source files

Clone Stamp Tool Art with Flash CS3

Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 1

Cricket Nirvana Releases AIR Cricket Desktop

An Open Message To Gert Franz And Railo

Jumping through Hoops with Acrobat

dOMi Preview - its Papervision, punk

Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a PC - Sony PS3 Computer Mod Hacks - Popular Mechanics [del.icio.us]

Yo!

Nominate Flex for a SourceForge.net Community Award

Make Flash Sites More Searchable - 0

Scotch on the Rocks review

Get your Virtual Office in India

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