Adobe announced their plan to open source Flex, I’m very excited about this news! Just got back from Toronto today so just blogging some resources to check out, will certainly blog more about this move when I’ve had a chance to review it all.
I’m absolutely blown away by this new project Luke Bayes and Ali Mills (of AsUnit fame) have just released! AsProject is a cross platform open source ActionScript development tool set that supports both ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 and leverages tools like MTASC, Swfmill and AsUnit using rake tasks to automate the build process. Its distributed read more
Last year I released a first version of the Belgium zipcode components — I’ve made some improvements and have since ported it from Flash to Flex 2. As a little early Christmas present to my loyal blog groupies I thought I’d release the source code for this latest version.
Its been several months since I first announced FlashExtensibility.com, but have finally found the time to get it up and running!
The idea behind this site is to provide an open source repository of JSFL scripts, everyone can get involved and share their work. Right now I’ve got experiments up that I did for a couple of Flash conferences. Some of the examples are still work in progress or just a proof of concept — feel free to play around with the code, debug and/or add features.
Looking forward to seeing this develop into an active community site — if you’re at all interested in extending the Flash IDE, make sure to get involved!
At this years Multi-Mania we had an interesting panel discussion on open source Flash with Edwin van Rijkom, Christophe Herreman , Serge “Sergio” Jespers and myself — excellently moderated by Aral Balkan. I’ve always considered myself a bit of an open source disciple though it might not have come across that way from the discussion (I blame it on the bouncy balls).
In practical terms I use open source tools to help me with my development workflow not replace it. For example Eclipse as an ActionScript editor, AMFPHP as a Flash Remoting gateway, AsUnit for unit testing and occassionally the ARP framework and Screenweaver for building desktop applications.
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.
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.
A couple of months back I launched a set of components that allow you to look up belgian zipcodes based on a city name and vice versa. At the time I saw it as a test to see how feasible it is to release commercial Flash components.
Just 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. Particularly like his png2swf command that let’s you browse for read more
Aral 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 Revolution”. After briefly covering the history of how osflash.org came read more
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