Hey You, Comment Spammer

01/07/2008 03:59 pm by Flashcomguru.com in Off topic

Please be advised that I delete any comments which thank me for my 'wonderful articles' or 'this great post' in order to justify a link back to some sad and pathetic site. It's clear that you are the biggest scum that has ever walked this earth yet you have enough time on your hands to actually go through the trouble and adding your comments manually, including captchas as your bots are obviously letting you down, just to get someone - anyone - to link to you. I feel sorry for you.
Well guess what, in case you haven't noticed your comments are deleted after about 5 minutes of pathetic existence and your IP banned - and no I don't care if you are clever enough to spoof your IP, it gets banned anyway just because it makes me feel better. And don't post a 'thank you for this great site' to 15 different articles within a time frame 5 minutes, it kind of makes the game far too easy for me. Why not return once a week instead? Another piece of free advice: this site has a predominantly English speaking audience (doh!) so that could explain the poor response rates you are currently witnessing...

Dang, had to get it off my chest. Saddos.

Really Nice H.264 Flash Video Demo

01/07/2008 09:52 am by Flashcomguru.com in Videos & Players

Fabio has posted a very nice H.264 video on his blog which he encoded using the free FFMPEG tool. This file played absolutely smoothly on my standard, consumer grade ADSL line and while I am not sure about the encoding bitrate used here I would like to point out that the video looks tons better than the so called Digital TV signal that Sky is pushing down on me. And Fabio's demo was running at 1600x1200 on my screen.

This year will be an awesome one for Flash video. I hope some clever developer will add some interactivity and community tools to this sort of viewing experience. Whoever said that Tv was dead was dead right. Hey, that gives me an idea...

7. Basic Interactivity

01/06/2008 10:05 am by pv3d.org - Papervision3D Tutorials in Papervision3D

When starting out with pv3d, many as3 ninjas don’t realize you need to enable interactivity in the viewport and the material before being able to listen to the various click events. Here’s how it’s done: Requirements 6. Basic 3d Movement Steps Turn on interactivity in the viewport (AKA instantiate the InteactiveSceneManager) There are two ways to go about this first [...]

Great Video - The Bird and The Bee: Polite Dance Song.

01/06/2008 05:44 am by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Fun

Directed by Eric Wareheim from my favorite show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!… Enjoy…

Satellite alignment has ‘peaked’ my interest

01/06/2008 12:05 am in Satellites

I’ve got DirecTV and I use one of those AU-9 satellite dishes that drives my HR20 DVR player. This brings the beauty of Dallas Maverick’s basketball and Dallas Cowboy’s football right into my home. Except when all I see is ’searching for signal’, which is what I found off and on during the [...]

Collision detection between particles and polygons

01/05/2008 11:39 pm by zero point nine in Flash experiments

A basic example of collision detection in 3D, where moving particles bounce off a static terrain. [By the way, my apologies for the cobwebs that have accumulated on this site; I’ve been busy over the past few months dealing with moving back to the Bay Area from Detroit :) ] A couple things on it which could [...]

The story of stuff

01/05/2008 05:19 pm by MosesSupposes in digital

This website is great, really informative and a fantastic use of Flash technology to communicate a non-advertising message (too rare these days). It describes some pretty horrifying facts about our consumer system and its impact on the real world in a simple, fun animated format. www.storyofstuff.com

My New Blog

01/05/2008 05:18 pm by tech.cove.org in General

It’s about time I got around to writing something. I’ll be posting on various topics: physics, graphics, 3D, alife, ai, and OOD, and the occasional rant.

Java creator, James Gosling does his part of Flash Bashing

01/05/2008 11:04 am by Brajeshwar in Adobe

If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff -- richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs -- it really falls short.

Hot tips to get the best of Linux in 2008

01/04/2008 08:40 pm by Brajeshwar in Featured

Sometimes you can have a frozen window, and there are two fast ways to solve this problem without turning off your computer or restarting it. The first is the traditional key combination of Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.

Getting Married

01/04/2008 06:56 pm in Wedding

For those who don’t know, I’m getting married this May! My lovely fiancée and I met back at Texas in 1991 while we were both in the Longhorn Band. Because I was a Tuba player, she was naturally attracted to me. However it wasn’t until 2005 that we [...]

Parallax-effect and avatar lighting

01/04/2008 04:56 pm by Alternativa Platform blog in Flash

As an experiment we just tried to visualize an avatar using latest magically developed features (parallax-effect and bump). Controls: Mouse move — move light source Mouse click — change light color Mouse wheel or +/- — change highlight curve

Do Venture Capitalists fund a company with an intent to steal

01/04/2008 10:12 am by Brajeshwar in Asides

Why do CEOs leave the company that they've created and raised money for? Many CEOs are serial entrepreneurs and prefer starting companies, not running them after they become larger and more successful.

The Larry King clip that never happened -WTF? Why is Ron Paul shunned?

01/04/2008 05:07 am by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in from iPhone

Ron Paul on Larry King 1-3-08 (UNAIRED) - So, this blog really isn’t political… It’s a geek design/development blog, but on the night before the caucases, Larry King interviewed Ron Paul… and didn’t air it. He played an hour of Suze Ormon instead. Hmm. The GOP is clueless and pushing another hick into the nomination and [...]

Exploring the HTML 5 Canvas Element

01/03/2008 07:58 pm by Kevin Hoyt in JavaScript

HTML 5 introduces a new canvas element which comes along with a graphics context based on Quartz 2D. This means that JavaScript developers can draw paths, fill and clip (mask) shapes, transform bitmaps, and even provide basic animation in addition to other operations. The similarities to the ActionScript Drawing API (especially in ActionScript 3) are [...]

Manual Data Binding in Flex

01/03/2008 06:39 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

I'm currently working on an Exchange calendaring client for AIR (more details to come), and I decided early on to use the Cairngorm Flex framework. Using Cairngorm means making heavy use of data binding, which in turn will eventually require you to set up bindings manually.

My Fourth Birthday

01/03/2008 11:38 am by Flashcomguru.com in Off topic

It's almost exactly four years ago to this day when I launched this site, Flashcomguru.com.
It started off as a rather small resource but grew steadily ever since. Flashcomguru.com rose from the ashes of Flashcomstudio.com, the first european Flash Communication Server hosting provider and a place where I posted my first ever tutorials.
Right now there are 3736 users registered in the forums and 341 people are subscribed to my mailing list, the Flash Media List. Not bad I think for such a niche subject matter. Thanks to everyone for their contributions and support over the years, let's see what the next four years will bring.

Oracle is Seeking Flex Developers

01/03/2008 01:50 am by Schematic in News

If you’re located on the West Coast of the US and fancy a gig working for Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA they’re currently on the scout for experienced Flex developers to fill a Senior or Principal Technical Staff role in the System Management Product’s Database Diagnostics and Tuning group. Candidates must be interested in UI development [...]

Rebuilding PPT in Flex/AS3 - A Quick Look

01/02/2008 10:56 pm by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Flex

At The Iona Group we were recently approached by the International Mission Board to assist them in creating a Presentation Viewer application to help distribute their message in a flexible fashion. We worked with them produce a Flex developed RIA delivered online in webpage, through a downloadable EXE (compiled with Zinc), and via AIR. The [...]

Blender export for Sandy3D available

01/02/2008 03:47 pm in General

Dennis Ippel, one of the Sandy3D developers, just released his Blender export script. for Sandy3D, but also Away3D and Papervision 1.7. Check it here and let your comments there! This Blender (free 3D modelisation tool) export script is a possibility to generate native 3D objects (no parsing required), as the Seraf AS3 geom exporter [...]

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