I enjoyed the Flex seminar at Roosevelt Hotel in NYC this past August 14th. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, you can still see it! All of the sessions have been recorded and are available on-line.
I’m looking forward to next week’s FlashForward conference in Austin, TX. There are so many good session choices I had a hard making my schedule. I’ve decided I want to get the most out of Flex 2 so that kind of influenced most of my picking.
When I think of classic cartoons one of the first things to come to mind are the cheesy animation that seem to loop ad nauseam. If only they harnessed the power of prime numbers they could have had beautifully seamless loops with very little effort.
John has been working on a great 3D Framework for AS3 called Lux. You can see it in action on his blog. The depth of field feature is really nice and something I haven’t seen before with ActionScript. On his site there is a performance test available for viewing and he’s looking for feedback on framerate results. I’m looking forward to playing with the framework when that becomes available.
This is one image in a series I did about darts. A “Ton Eighty” is 180 points and the highest possible throw achieved by landing all three darts inside the triple bed of the number twenty scoring 3 x 20 for each dart. I modeled and rendered this image using 3D Studio Max. The blurred effect was created by setting a very short depth of field with the virtual camera focused on the dart’s entry point into the dartboard. This effect helps gives the image a more dramatic and photorealistic look.
This image is about two years old and my first real attempt at a vector-based illustration using Adobe Illustrator. I was teaching myself clipping paths, blends and different tools such as pathfinder. I was trying to see how close I could get to something photorealistic or at least something that not at all screamed clip-art.
On Thursday, August 31st, Adobe is having an eSeminar on Flex Data Services. You can sign up for this Breeze Meeting or one of their other upcoming Flex 2 events on Adobe’s Web site.
Welcome to the third and final installment of this three part series on writing and packaging JSFL commands. In this last post I will go over how to update our Invisible Button command so that we can use a relative installation path to locate our XML form. I’ll also go over how to create an installer file (MXI) and package it (MXP) so that you can distribute your commands.
Back in ActionScript 2.0 using type annotating was a “best-practice” approach that helped speed up development by identifying type casting errors at compile time. The actual values were stored in memory as dynamically typed atoms so the type annotations never really mattered after you published. However, dynamically typed atoms tended to waste memory as values were loosely stored leaving breathing room for changing values.
Back in May Adobe had a week-long online seminar with a lot of broadcasted sessions on Flash and Flex. You can find recordings of all these sessions in the community section of their web site. http://www.adobe.com/communities/developerweek/
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