Category Archives: Flash

Socks are officially blown off…

Posted on February 16, 2007 by keith

… and are nowhere to be found. I’m talking about bump mapping in Papervision 3d: http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/flash_examples/flash_9_pv_3d_example_3d_bumpm.html What’s the date? Did I go into a coma and wake up 20 years later? Flash just couldn’t do stuff like this last time … Continue reading →

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A Code Behind realization

Posted on February 13, 2007 by keith

Still haven’t dived into Flex 2 with both feet, but I dabble here and there. Ted Patrick just posted a cool, short and understandable article on the code-behind model, which seems a pretty cool way of separating presentation and logic. … Continue reading →

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PBS Cyberchase Inventor's Workshop updated

Posted on February 12, 2007 by keith

A couple of months ago I blogged about Cyberchase Inventor’s Workshop, which I did the programming on. Cyberchase is a kids tv show on PBS, and the site itself was done by Thirteen. It’s a pretty cool game where you … Continue reading →

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TwitterPath

Posted on February 9, 2007 by keith

I’ve become hooked on Twitter over the last couple of days. And then I found out they have feeds. There’s even AS2 and AS3 libraries available. But I just threw an app together using straight AS3 and E4X. I even … Continue reading →

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Joey Lott Speaking in Boston

Posted on February 8, 2007 by keith

On Wednesday, February 28, at 7 pm, Joey Lott will be speaking at the Boston Flash Platform User Group. If you are in the area, definitely come on over. Joey is an international celebrity, author, video maker, teacher, programmer. As … Continue reading →

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Lots of talking coming up

Posted on February 8, 2007 by keith

I just realized that my speaking schedule is getting pretty damn full for the next few months. Here’s what I got: March 2: Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Two presentations on Flash to students in the Graphic & … Continue reading →

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Boston Design Patterns Meeting tonight

Posted on February 7, 2007 by keith

If you are in the Boston area, head on over to Brightcove in Kendall Square tonite at 7pm and geek out with the local Flash/Flex developer community and talk about the Proxy pattern. Free (as in beer) pizza. Not free … Continue reading →

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Disney on Brightcove

Posted on February 5, 2007 by keith

Well, a little slice of it anyway. Buena Vista Television, a division of the Walt Disney Company, has partnered with Brightcove to deliver some video content on their broadband channel. Not exactly sure what content is going up there, but … Continue reading →

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New publish date for Making Things Move

Posted on February 2, 2007 by keith

As previously mentioned, Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move has been put on hold a bit. I just got word of the new publish date, which is April 2, 2007. Sorry for the delay. Trust me, we all tried … Continue reading →

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Apollo coming soon…

Posted on January 31, 2007 by keith

Soon as in, “…a developer release of the product in the next couple of months.” At least according to GigaOM’s live blogging from DEMO’07. A “developer release” likely means it will be up on labs by the end of March. … Continue reading →

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