Over the past year, I’ve done very little in the Flash/Flex world; Not because I thought the Apple had won, but more around the interest of learning what else is out there. After a year of HTML5/Javascript, iOS, Android/Java, and a little Python; Everything I learn makes me want to get back to Flash. Albeit I’ve learned that prototyping with …Read more »
Tag Archives: as3
Why I keep going Back To Flash
Category: Actionscript, Android, Flash, Flex, General, Update |
Tags: actionscript 3, Android, api, as3, Flash, Flex, Java, LinkedIn, Open Source
BFusion/BFlex 2010 – 2 Sessions on Flex 4 – 9.12.2010
[From BFlex site] What is BFusion/BFlex? BFusion/BFlex is no normal conference. It is a no-nonsense, learn-to-code* and learn-it-from-the-best event. Each day there are six full hours of hands-on training with the various technologies and techniques. You bring your computer and desire to learn and our excellent instructors challenge you to take your mind to new places. http://bflex.indiana.edu/ ——————————— This past …Read more »
Category: Actionscript, Flash, Flex, Presentations, Roundarch |
Tags: Actionscript, actionscript 3, as3, Flash, Flex, LinkedIn, Presentations, Roundarch
Hi-Res Printing in Flash with AlivePDF
Printing with Flash has always been one of those nagging issues I’ve never been able to successfully defeat, using the Flash PrintJob class that is. Although I want to sit here, and tell you how awful the PrintJob class is, I’ll let you try to explore that rocky road all by yourself; When you get to the point when you’re trying to use PixelBender …Read more »
[Presentation] Flexible Open Source – 2.23.2010
I recently did a presentation for at DePaul University here in Chicago, for Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. The talk focuses more on my view of Creativity as applied to Rich Internet Applications, and how I apply an Agile methodology in order to iterate quickly, and get a working product out of the …Read more »
Category: Actionscript, Flash, Google Earth, OpenZoom, Presentations, Roundarch |
Tags: actionscript 3, as3, Flash, Flex, Google Earth, LinkedIn, Open Source, presentation, Roundarch
ZUI | Exploring Zoomable User Interfaces with OpenZoom
UPDATE: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. HIGH LIKELIHOOD OF CRASHING YOUR BROWSER Here is basic proof of concept inserting OpenZoom interfaces within openzoom interfaces to make a basic image gallery. Further tweak of the controls will prove a very nice browsing experience. Also pairing with Flash Player 10′s capabilities for 3D and we make something quite impressive, and very lightweight …Read more »
Category: Actionscript, Flash, Flex, OpenZoom |
Tags: actionscript 3, as3, Flash, Flex, LinkedIn, OpenZoom
[Tutorial] Debugging AS3 from the browser using FDT
If you’re an Actionscript programmer, you should probably at least know of FDT. If you don’t, travel over to their site, and download a copy of the software (free trial for 30 days). I’m assuming in this post you already have it installed, and you know how to compile files, and maybe even know how write your own ANT scripts. …Read more »
(2/21/2010) From Android to Earth, Flashing in between
I will explore writing an android application, that will let me transfer geo-location along with other data (pictures,video,etc) from android device, to the web using both Google Earth API (plugin) and Flash as Front-End(s).
Category: Actionscript, Android, Flash, Google Earth, Python |
Tags: actionscript 3, Android, as3, Flash, Google Earth, LinkedIn, Python
Gran Turismo and Actionscript3
Ok… So they don’t have anything to do with each other directly. But they do in my case! Since I love Gran Turismo and Actionscript… and although I can’t get better at Gran Turismo by using AS3, I can get better at AS3 while playing Gran Turismo (*this is highly speculative, and probably false considering I’ve just been putting quick …Read more »
Stratalogica
So let’s talk about spaceships… I mean Stratalogica. Stratalogica has been my life for about the past year. It is a teaching tool for geography and history wrapped around Google Earth (for short). Roundarch the company I work for teamed up with Nystrom a division of Herff-Jones, to try and create a new platform to interact with their content. Long …Read more »
Category: Actionscript, Flash, Flex, Python, Roundarch |
Tags: actionscript 3, AlivePDF, as3, FDT, Java, LinkedIn, Open Source, Python, Roundarch, Stratalogica
A few important things about Actionscript 3
I haven’t posted in a while, but in the past 6-9 months I’ve been working on some pretty cool stuff. Stratalogica Check it out. Through it I’ve been learning some really nice perks, especially FP10. That along with Python, which is a pretty sweet language… but this is about AS3… maybe some JAVA. First off Event Priority, that little number …Read more »