Archive for May, 2006

  • Adobe Live 2006 London

    Adobe Live 2006 London

    Posted on May 27, 2006 | 4 Comments
    I've been over in London for the last few days which happily coincided with the Adobe Live event -- headed over to the Olympia for Wednesday nights London MMUG meeting, a panel on "The future of the Internet as an Applications Platform".

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  • AfterHours Mega Session 2006 review

    AfterHours Mega Session 2006 review

    Posted on May 19, 2006 | 7 Comments
    This years AfterHours Mega Session was brilliant as expected, some very cool and inspiring presentations -- definitely not the predictable blend of topics you already see at many other events.

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  • Bitmap compression for Flash 8

    Bitmap compression for Flash 8

    Posted on May 16, 2006 | 1 Comment
    Koen De Weggheleire has an excellent post up today on image compression techniques for Flash 8. He discusses downgrading the color palette as well as RLE and LZW compression. A very interesting read! Also be sure to check out Mario Klingemann's BitmapExporter class if you're interested in the topic: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000572.php

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  • Adobe’s Spry framework for Ajax

    Adobe’s Spry framework for Ajax

    Posted on May 11, 2006 | No Comments
    Adobe has just released a prerelease of Spry, a set of JavaScript libraries that leverage XML and XPath for easily creating interactive web pages and applications. What I particularly like about it is that it integrates nicely with your HTML content, no funky scripting is required. Just include the JavaScript libraries, specify an XML dataset and create a dynamic region. You can set up repeating regions, sort and filter data without much hassle. Hope to find some time this weekend to look into it some more and build an actual application!

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  • Flash Commodore 64 Emulator

    Flash Commodore 64 Emulator

    Posted on May 10, 2006 | 2 Comments
    If someone told this to me a year ago I would *never* have believed them. Its just incredible to see the possibilities Flash Player 9 is opening up! Darron Shall (of FlashVNC fame) and Claus Wahlers have set up an open source project building an emulator for the Commodore 64 in Flash. Over the last few days they've made incredible progress and they've now got the basic display code and a basic keyboard implementation in place, meaning you can actually run BASIC commands.

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  • Multi-Mania 2006

    Multi-Mania 2006

    Posted on May 6, 2006 | 7 Comments
    Multi-Mania is without a doubt one of Belgium's best multimedia events of the year, this year promises to be no different with more than 20 people presenting in three different tracks. Head on down to the Schouwburg in Kortrijk on June 29th to see such people as Aral Balkan, Christophe Herreman, Edwin van Rijkom, Wayne Smith.

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  • Adobe Fusion event

    Adobe Fusion event

    Posted on May 3, 2006 | 3 Comments
    Just got back from the Adobe Fusion event in Brussels and came back excited to see to what extent Adobe and Macromedia software already play nice together. I thought I was pretty much up to date on integration between Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator and Flash but the guys managed to show us some very cool tips and tricks on how to have them work together. Pretty cool! Serge did an impressive walkthrough of creating FLVs with alpha transparency, using cue points and round-trip editing with Photoshop.

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