March 29, 2007 – 11:44 pm
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, [...]
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’
March 11, 2007 – 10:49 am
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 [...]
January 12, 2007 – 10:45 am
Scripting animation has many benfits including improved performance, more control, and most importantly it saves time. There’s a great animation library called Fuse which let’s you animate everything from a MovieClip’s position to the anmount of blur. While a complete animation library it’s also pretty complicated with pages and pages of documentation and I – [...]
November 14, 2006 – 11:01 am
There’s a good introduction to using WebORB for Rails in Web Developer and Designer’s Journal. It gives a basic overview for the uninitiated while also highlighting some lesser know features such as retrieving Rails session objects and authentication (setCredentials), the latter being a fairly recent addition to WebORB.
November 13, 2006 – 6:06 pm
Sephiroth have a couple of useful plug-ins for Firefox for debugging Flash. One is FlashTracer which will output any trace actions in a SWF. The second is Flash Switcher which let’s you switch between Flash Player versions.
Go get’em.
October 5, 2006 – 1:46 am
Or RoRRIASDK, say that ten times fast!
The kit features six examples – and growing – of Flex/Fash with Ruby on Rails goodness including my Flash Remoting with Rails MP3 player tutorial. Big Ups to Mike Potter of Adobe for setting up the SDK and allowing me to contribute to it.
There’s also an Adobe PHP SDK [...]
October 4, 2006 – 6:39 pm
Google + Helpful Bloggers = KreeK gets shise done faster
I was working on getting a dynamic menu to scroll just now that had two functions one for scrolling up and one for scrolling down. Each function was called by Flash’s Delegate class and was about 15 lines long.
However, only one line of each function was [...]
October 2, 2006 – 8:20 am
We have a ton of work right now and are looking for freelance Rails and Flex/Flash developers.
I’d prefer that you have a computer science/software engineering background but it’s not mandatory (I’m a self taught programmer so I know it’s possible).
One project is a very large ecommerce store (large in the number of products) and the [...]