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Archive for November, 2005
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Open Source FunkyTools released
Posted on November 27, 2005 | No CommentsJust noticed Martin Smestad Hansen has released his FunkyTools to osflash.org, great stuff! Remember him talking to me about it at Spark and they’re really cool productivity tools to automate some of those tedious task we all have to deal with when doing Flash projects.... -
Spark Europe – Aral Balkan
Posted on November 21, 2005 | 5 CommentsAral Balkan was his usually energetic self and did a great job representing the open source Flash movement at Spark (along with Nicolas Canasse, John Grden, Luke Hubbard and the rest of the community of course). His first session was on the “Open Source Flash... -
Spark Europe – Ted Patrick
Posted on November 19, 2005 | No CommentsTed Patrick‘s first session on the DisplayList API was no doubt one of my favourite sessions of the conference. I thought I was pretty much up to speed with the DisplayList in AS3 but he highlighted some interesting use-cases that I hadn’t considered before (reparenting... -
Spark Europe – Chafic Kazoun
Posted on November 19, 2005 | 4 CommentsChafic had an interesting intro session on Flex 2 (more Q&A really), main themes were “MXML is compiled to an ActionScript class” and “code hinting in Flex Builder 2 rocks!”. He showed some cool ways of calling AS functions from MXML tags, private and public... -
Spark Europe – Mike Chambers
Posted on November 19, 2005 | No CommentsGuy Watson’s session went on a bit longer than planned and I only got to Mike’s session 10 or so minutes in. The Flash JavaScript integration kit is a really cool tool for calling ActionScript functions from JavaScript and JavaScript functions from ActionScript, is completely... -
Spark Europe – Guy Watson
Posted on November 18, 2005 | 3 CommentsDespite his cold, Guy gave an excellent overview of the new AS3 features. I’ll run through some of the most notable things he mentioned: - Flash Player 8.5 has two AVM’s (ActionScript Virtual Machine), old SWF content runs using AVM and AS3 using the new... -
Spark Europe – Erik Natzke
Posted on November 17, 2005 | No CommentsErik Natzke just finished a great opening session here at Spark Europe. He started out with a 5 minute demo reel of some of his work and was happy to see he’s been playing around with the Bitmap API and SoundSpectrum in AS3 to do... -
Getting ready for Amsterdam …
Posted on November 16, 2005 | 2 CommentsTomorrow morning I’ll be catching an early train to Amsterdam at 5.30 am (ouch) to arrive well in time for the Spark conference. As we’ll apparently have free wifi at the conference I’m getting my blog set up to do some live blogging. You can... -
Spark Europe schedule
Posted on November 13, 2005 | 1 CommentI’ll be over at the Spark conference in Amsterdam next Thursday and Friday and just noticed they put up the schedule. Here is my initial selection of sessions I’m planning to attend: Thursday, November 17th - Erik Natzke: Blended Art and Science - Guy Watson:... -
MXNA screensaver updated
Posted on November 12, 2005 | 1 CommentI took a couple of minutes out of my day to update the MXNA screensaver I created last year (its been broke ever since the MXNA webservices were upgraded). Enjoy! Download it here