Category Archives: Flash

Adobe working on Flash Player for iPhone

Posted on March 18, 2008 by keith

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/03/18/adobe-bringing-flash-to-the-iphone/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120588767706747197.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology&apl=y&r=60672 Looks that way. What surprised me was the comments on the macrumors post are overwhelmingly positive, with hallelujahs, thank gods, and about times. I guess it’s not exactly the slashdot crowd, but still, I expected more criticism. Happily, … Continue reading →

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Shopping Ads : thumbs down

Posted on March 16, 2008 by keith

I did an experiment for the last month or so on this blog. I’d been using Google Ads and while not making any outrageous income, I was averaging about $X a day, which means every couple of months, I got … Continue reading →

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PolarDistort class updated and optimized (some)

Posted on March 15, 2008 by keith

Updated this with some optimization tricks. Got the render time down from about 150 ms to under 100 on my machine. It’s actually to the point where you can do some relatively uncrappy animation with it. Click the image below … Continue reading →

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Art Gallery Opening

Posted on March 15, 2008 by keith

Last night my gallery show opened at Axiom Art in Jamaica Plain (Boston). I did a small interactive piece reminiscent of Gravity Pods, but more real time interactive. A particle emitter emits a steady stream of particles. You control them … Continue reading →

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PolarDistort class

Posted on March 12, 2008 by keith

A few weeks ago I made a quick SWF showing Polar Distortion. I said then that I should probably make a class out of it. Finally got around to doing that. The original file was just BitmapData -> BitmapData. The … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 out

Posted on March 12, 2008 by keith

I was using Firefox 3 Beta 3 for a bit when it came out … last month? I really like the interface and features, and seemed pretty stable, but it was failing utterly to render some pages, so I went … Continue reading →

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FlashForward sold to Beau Ambur

Posted on March 11, 2008 by keith

Just got word of this. http://www.flashforwardconference.com/press_release/23 I guess Lynda is committing her time to Lynda.com and the training materials there. It will be interesting to see where this goes. I’ve posted some criticism of FlashForward over the last year or … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, General, Silverlight | 3 Comments

Does this code make my Flash look fat?

Posted on March 10, 2008 by keith

Flash apps are growing. Maybe growing up, but also growing fat. Back in the day, I never really gave a second thought about memory usage. I mean, when you could only have a few dozen movie clips on stage at … Continue reading →

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"Math and Art" gallery showing opens this Friday

Posted on March 9, 2008 by keith

http://www.axiomart.org If you are in the Boston area, stop by. Friday, March 14th, 6-9pm, Axiom Art Gallery at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA.

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CS3 Component Parameters – defaultValues

Posted on March 4, 2008 by keith

The first CS3 component tip is really a bug in the authoring environment. It has to do with inspectable getters and setters and default values. These are done pretty much identically to the way they were done in the old … Continue reading →

Posted in Components, Flash | 25 Comments