Well I’m not sure it’s the best way but Aral Balkan’s SWX looks pretty promising. You load SWX as you would a SWF, with loadMovie, since it’s a SWF the data is Flash native and ready to go.
Right now PHP is the only support backend but Aral is looking to add the others Python, Java, [...]
The release of Apollo has renewed my interest in Flex, I was on the Flex Builder Beta for OS X but don’t do enough Flex work (yet) to shell out for Builder so… I Googled around for the best open source solution.
It was my lucky day as Todd Sharp updated Darron Schall’s 2005 post about [...]
Apollo made it on to Slashdot the other day and was immediately lit up by the natives. I usually stay out of this stuff, but lately the level of ignorance towards all ActionScript based tools (Flash/Flex and now Apollo) is drivin’ me nuts.
For ten years I’ve listened to people crap all over Flash. Then the [...]
A reminder that that Adobe is presenting a webcast of the new features in CS3 at 3:30 EST (12:30 PST).
They already have some marketing pages up:
Web
Design
Production
‘Master Collection’
Mongrel being the four-legged variety, not the ruby server.
I heard about the dog food recall last night but it wasn’t until this morning that I checked the list (which is very long) and found that my dog’s wet food was on it. Thankfully once I checked the product codes his food was fine.
I recently started [...]
Here’s how to stop your site’s uploads or other static file directories disappering after doing a ‘cap deploy’ with Capistrano. Capistrano is actually behaving exactly as it should. The problem is that the ‘uploads’ directory is being left behind in release purgatory while the other files happily move on up to the castle in the [...]
Vixiom designs edgeacoustics.com (be sure to turn up your inferior speakers). A lot of sites claim to be multimedia but this is the real deal with audio, video, interactive elements, and some pretty complex ActionScript to make sure it all holds together. The 3D was done by our friends at SoftMirage.
Is your non-coding time in [...]