By Jeff on December 8, 2009
For more than a decade, the idea of creating 3D animations with Adobe Flash software has intrigued designers and developers. In early 2000, Swift 3D and Vecta 3D started a frenzy with prerendered 3D vector graphics for Flash. Not so long ago, we started getting our first glimpses of real-time 3D rendering engines running in [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Adobe, Flash Player 9 |
By Jeff on November 30, 2009
Tell us what you think is the most anticipated feature of CS5 on the right. Don’t see something that you are anticipating? Let me know and I will add it.
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Advertising, Apple, Flash |
By Jeff on November 25, 2009
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Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Advertising, Facebook Development, General, Social |
By Jeff on August 13, 2009
I just read the article over on AdAge predicting yet again the downfall of Flash. I have been developing Flash since 1999 and have read countless stories about the flash killer coming… like I have said before I will believe it when I see the numbers.
As far as Flash seeming slow, that is just [...]
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on June 5, 2009
One thing about previous versions of ActionScript was that you could never tell when the user no longer had his or her mouse over the Flash movie. This made it hard for people to know whether or not the user is still interacting with their movie or if they’ve given up and [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3 | Tagged ActionScript |
By Jeff on June 1, 2009
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player 10, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on April 24, 2009
Great tutorial on how to use JSON data with Flash.
Cakes Good: Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, JSON keep it simple tutorial.
Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3 | Tagged ActionScript, Flash, JSON |
By Jeff on April 18, 2009
Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed.
Program eligibility:
To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the fact that you are currently unemployed and that the software will be used only for your personal use [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Flex | Tagged ActionScript, Flex |
By Jeff on April 16, 2009
Ok, now you may be asking yourself, why would I use this instead of the new Facebook Actionscript API that I talked about previously? That API is all good if you are working on a stand alone RIA, but I think it is really hampered by the process that you have to go through [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Facebook Development, JavaScript, Social | Tagged ActionScript, FaceBook, Social |
By Jeff on April 16, 2009
The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
The Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform provide the ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Flash is available on [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged ActionScript, FaceBook, Flash, Social |