Unless you have been living under a ball in the past few months, you should know that the FIFA World Cup 2006 on Germany will start in about one week. Most of the world will stop to see how the 32 selected countries will do in this that’s the most popular single sport tournament in […]
Continue reading →Is the morale of your office’s team down due to your boss’ inability to lead? Is he a dick when it comes to managing projects or being reasonable? When that happens, most employees just go to a bar where they can drink to their anger while they tell everybody – usually fellow employees – how […]
Continue reading →Everybody’s equation hero Robert Penner has updated his easing equations page. Worth of note now is that his equations are now licensed under BSD, that he has added a few more links to the page and, more importantly, that he’s hosting the entire tweening chapter of his book on the site on the form of […]
Continue reading →Well, it has begun. Apparently, we don’t even need the good news that Flash Player 8 adoption has been faster than all other versions: just a mention of some of the new features (specially related to video and the new express install) was enough to convince the client that Flash 8 was the better option. […]
Continue reading →It’s today! The final draw for the Germany World Cup 2006 groups will be held on Leipzig, Germany, at 20:15 CET – 32 teams will be distributed between 8 groups with 4 national teams each (from each group, 2 teams will be qualified for the final rounds). What’s cool about this is that FIFA has […]
Continue reading →Looking for a change of seasons? Raven Software, developers of games such as X-Men Legends, Soldier of Fortune, Heretic, Hexen and Quake 4, is looking for an artist to develop user interface stuff for their next-generation games. Here it goes, Raven Software, developer of numerous AAA award winning games, including Soldier of Fortune 1 & […]
Continue reading →On the days of Flash 7 (and less), one of the biggest problems I had to deal with was handling a lot of objects on screen, at the same time. This was particularly true with painting pseudo-applications – you know, cutesy websites where you could create drawings within Flash. The problem with sites like that […]
Continue reading →Among other things, the W3C is now looking to develop new standards for rich user interface applications. To quote, The W3C Web Application Formats Working Group is chartered to develop languages for client-side Web Application development. (…) This deliverable should be based on an existing application/UI format, such as Mozilla’s XUL, Microsoft’s XAML, Macromedia’s MXML […]
Continue reading →There’s the ActionScript 3 section at Macromedia Labs. The AS2 to AS3 migration sheet is particularly interesting. You can also download the new tools for testing – including Flash Player 8.5, the one with the new virtual machine. Mike Chambers has some more information about all this.
Continue reading →Macromedia has sent word of the latin american release presentations for Studio 8 and Studio 8 products – Flash 8 et al. Dates and speakers vary per country, but visitors wil be treated to a Flash Platform presentation, a feature tour of the products by product managers (I don’t know if that’s via Breeze or […]
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