Social Surplus

04/29/2008 08:55 am by Brooks Andrus in Misc

Clay Shirky’s got an interesting blog post related to the massive global economic and societal shifts underway as the result of the web’s unique blend of individual empowerment, social networking and interactive new media. One of the more interesting aspects for me was the notion that a ’social surplus’ has existed since the industrial revolution created [...]

PeekPanel - My New Flex Component

04/29/2008 08:30 am in Adobe Flex

This is my latest experiment which I’ve named the “PeekPanel”. I saw this type of animation done on my phone and figured it would be a cool way to hide options or preferences in an application. It borrows the look and feel from the FlexBook/PageFlip components already out there, but instead of simulating a book, this [...]

FDT 3.0 ActionScript Code Editor Nirvana

04/29/2008 05:46 am by Brooks Andrus in Flash

While at FITC I had the opportunity to stop by the FDT booth and check out the latest version of their Eclipse based ActionScript code editor. I was actually surprised to see FDT with a booth at the show and even more surprised to be given a software demo by Nico Zimmermann, the creator of [...]

Keith Peters on Film in Toronto, co-starring, Eric Natzke, Hugh Elliot, and Phillip Kerman!

04/29/2008 01:56 am in General

Sydney - Adobe User Group Meeting

04/29/2008 01:44 am by Daniel Tome's blog in Adobe

Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Sydney Adobe User Group. Note that it is now a joint group between the Flash User Group and the Coldfusion User Group. Geoff Bowers did a presentation about “Setting Fire To Your Community” The presentation was really good and I left the user group meeting with a nice feeling [...]

BlendMode.LAYER; A must when changing the alpha property of a DisplayObject containing other DisplayObjects

04/29/2008 01:22 am by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

I don't know if you ever tweened a MovieClip's alpha while this MovieClip contained multiple assets, but I kinda do this all the time (fade in ,fade out being the easiest transition for almost everything). The default way Flash handles this is by changing the alpha of every assets in the containing MovieClip (or Sprite). [...]

Morphing Objects in PV3D

04/29/2008 12:40 am by Big Spaceship Labs in

I started to explore how to change pv3d objects and played a bit with some shaders and thought i might share some of my ideas and results. I found some code snippets of fluid simulation by Exey...

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Multi-Mania 2008 registrations open now !

04/29/2008 12:23 am in Flash CS3

We’ve just opened registrations for multi-mania 2008! !!! Europe’s biggest FREE multimedia FEST Multi-Mania is a yearly one-day conference and award show in Kortrijk (Belgium) where 800 people from the multimedia industry in mid Europe come together to share knowledge, to get inspired or to connect and network. More then 30 speakers from around [...]

What is SOA?

04/29/2008 12:18 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

I have encountered a number of debates across various fora, the latest dealing with "WOA" vs. "SOA". It is fair to say that in the wider IT community, never mind the business, many are confused by all the different acronyms,...

SFIFF is nigh!

04/28/2008 11:52 pm by all manner of distractions in Processing

I have a piece in the San Francisco International Film Festival. Weird, right? They have a thing called Generator which is an amalgam of a bunch of digital art shorts. My Advanced Beauty piece is in there, along side the works of Lia, Toxi, Watz, and several others. Thanks to Matt Pyke for entering it. [...]

Weekend update to Newsbrew

04/28/2008 09:32 pm by Christian Cantrell in Web Development

With just a few hours of work, I was able to make Newsbrew much more robust by using Google's new RESTful feed APIs.

Check Out YSlow

04/28/2008 07:30 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in Stuff

Ted Patrick turned me on to YSlow, a Yahoo! Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug to analyze web page loads and make performance recommendations. I've been using it for a few days now, and this one is very cool, check it out!

Considering the byte order mark (UTF-BOM) when reading a text file using the readUTF() method in AIR

04/28/2008 06:52 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

Working with Adobe AIR's d ead and write methods, we encountered some strange behaviors when using the readUTF() method to read text files (TXT or RTF). In fact if the text file we're opening has not been created by Adobe AIR, we got a runtime error (number #2030 line ending ....) from the Flash Player. Investigating we discovered that the readUTF() method won't find a couple of bytes embedded into the file that it needs.

ASCII Art Doodle

04/28/2008 06:11 pm by Aral Balkan in Friends

Oh my, I just realized that while I was on the phone to my friend Gilles, I just ASCII art doodled! \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ / / \ .................... \ / . ______ [...]

Mark Mandel Announces Transfer 1.0

04/28/2008 03:52 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

3 years after starting the Transfer project, Mark Mandel has announced the release of Transfer 1.0. Congrats to Mark and all those involved on this momentous accomplishment! And if you've not bumped into Transfer yet ... Transfer is a ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping Library. Transfer ORM's main focus is to automate the repetitive tasks of creating the SQL and custom CFCs that are often required when developing a ColdFusion application. Through a central configuration file Transfer knows how to generate objects, and how to manage them and their relationships back to the database. (From the Transfer homepage).

NFL Draft

04/28/2008 03:47 pm in General

Bizarre Signs of Success

04/28/2008 03:29 pm by BitchWhoCodes in

Pirated copies and ebay sales - two really bizarre signs of what I'd call success for a project we recently released at Fuel Industries - Fairies and Dragons. Now being handed out in various places throughout the UK and Europe, the interactive McDonalds happy meal toy was probably one of the largest projects I have worked on in terms of sheer team size, and is one of the bigger projects I think to come out of Fuel.

And for the first time, I just realized, I'll be able to go in-store and pick up the happy meal toy from hopefully one of those Alice in wonderland looking London McDonalds -taking the project from one of development to experience. Can't do a European vacation without picking up one of those...

I guess we have two more benchmarks for success now.

Flash, Flex & AIR Package Names

04/28/2008 03:09 pm by Tink in Flash Player 10

flash = Flash Player & AIR fl = Flash mx = Flex & AIR air = AIR Make any sense? Explicit for new users? Does anyone know why the legacy mx is still around? A while back I suggested the following, and it was brought up in conversation again the other day… player = Flash Player flash = Flash flex = Flex air = AIR To be honest I thought the feature request [...]

Papervision3D Training Canada Style

04/28/2008 02:49 pm by Brooks Andrus in Flash

In case you haven’t heard, Flash rock star John Grden’s final two Papervision3D training sessions will be going down in Canada in the very near future. Held over the course of two full days, these sessions cover fundamentals to advanced techniques for 3D designers, developers and devigners. John’s been behind a number of prominent open source [...]

marshalling as3 from xsd, continued

04/28/2008 02:36 am in AS3

I have been thinking some more following my earlier post about how good it would be to have a system for creating ActionScript classes from XML Schema, for binding XML data to code. I thought it might be a good idea to set something of this nature up as web service, or a web application, using [...]

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