I’m the first person who will bang the Flash war drum when choosing a platform for most high impact media sites. It is also my recommendation for dynamic sites that are interfaced into databases, using tools and techniques that Flash developers are making a standard. One only thing flash was really weak at was making [...]
Some crafty folks have made a online Flex powered Photo editing program called SumoPaint , I am absoultely blown away by its functionality and complexity. It has layers, blend modes, filters and save and open functions. It’s great that groups are going out there and taking full use of this newfangled technology that we all [...]
Should I invest into learning Adobe ColdFusion? A subject that sparks interests within me always has been about combining Flash with other technologies to make Flash more dynamic. Adobe seem to be pushing Cold Fusion as their primitive server side scripting products as of late (especially in Flex). It’s hard for someone like me to [...]
I was a huge fan MosesSupposes Fuse for ActionScript 2, so I was a bit loss when I started to migrate to ActionScript 3 without it. I had a hunt around and found the best alternative tween engine was fantastic work by GreenSock and his Tween Classes. It has all the features Fuse did plus [...]
I’ve started to plan Simple Flash forum im developing for a client for the great guys at EdgeCreative, heres the mySQL schema. I’m either going to use PHP as the communication to the server but was considering using AMFPHP remoting instead, stayed tuned.
Adobe Player 10 went live a few days ago which is pretty big news for people who develop using Flash Technologies. As a developer (I’m a bit stooged in design and animation) I’m looking forward to new stuff that comes from the community through it like the new 3D API, animations tools and stuff like [...]
I came across a problem with the way XML Processing works, I stored HTML Data into a mySQL database and tried to return it using PHP to XML parsing and the actual HTML Tags are read as XML tags, wasn’t really ideal, I fixed this by wrapping my information using CDATA tags like this PHP [...]
One of the most difference things with me migrating from AcrionScript 2 to 3 was the loss of levels system. At first I took a page out of my old Java days and started to use Get and Set methods on all my objects pass variables around, and then started to make ValueObjects to store [...]
Over the last few months I’ve really been getting into more serious AS3 work, and one of the shortcomings of the Adobe Flash CS3 script editor. I was bit of a SEPY user back in the day but it seems the project has withered away. I discovered this neat Open Source editor called FlashDevelop which [...]
Finally setup a blog, I’ve always wanted to have one of these, just to keep tabs on what I’m doing. Will pop up more stuff when my hosting gets setup all properly
