Archive for January, 2007
January 25, 2007 at 10:33 am· Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio
Last night I started my trip towards AS3 knighthood… and it was a little bumpy. I don’t know whether it was just me (quite likely) but it was much more of a mind-shift than I had anticipated.
I recently did a small job for an overseas client and they paid me in two ActionScript 3 books… I’ll post about these soon. Anyway, they arrived yesterday and I couldn’t put them down.
Amongst a myriad of small syntactic differences, the display list rendering and the new event management model took the longest to get used to (edit: actually, there’s a lot more to it, but that’s a good start). Although now that I ‘get it’ to this extent, I can see the promise of how much better the overall tool will be. What took me a few hours to sort out and debug is that simply calling removeChild() is not enough to remove the object from memory… after reading about it here, it turns out that one needs to listen out for the EVENT.REMOVED event! Needless to say, neither of my books mentioned this.
So - for nothing more than plain hard proof that I did actually manage to get something done, here is a dramatically simplified version of the particle generator that you’ve seen here and here.
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January 24, 2007 at 7:28 am· Filed under Flash, Play, Portfolio, Novel Ideas, Tech News
Hey - just a quick update to assure you that I haven’t forgotten about updating the RSS 3D engine.
It was a great surprise to learn that I’d been ‘dugg’ again this week at digg.com - so far over 5500 diggs this time around. As a small token - I’ve updated the code _very slightly_ and have set aside some time in early February to convert the engine to ActionScript 3.
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January 13, 2007 at 1:44 pm· Filed under Play, Tech News
Just like you, I’m very excited about the news of the Apple iPhone and what it means to us should there one day be a Flash player on it (or has Adobe managed to get one on there?) - multi-touch flash games, anyone? It’s been the cause of so much hype during the last week or so that it almost seems irresponsible to not say something about it… it’s just what can you add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said a million times?
What I haven’t mentioned before is that I’m a big fan of Stephen Colbert… and I think his take on the situation is pretty damn funny. Keep reading for an interactive earful of Colbert goodness…
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January 9, 2007 at 8:18 am· Filed under Misc, Flash, Tech News
Well I’m back and really excited about what this new year is promising to bring. I had a couple of weeks at home with the family and deliberately avoided anything resembling ActionScript. I guess the plan worked as I’m now fully recharged and ready to go.
So, today is my second day back at work and I was greeted with this when I booted up my PC…
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