Something occurred to me one of these days. There’s something I’ve been doing for quite a while, but I’ve never discussed it with anybody else. I’m sure it all makes sense, somehow, or that there’s some better way to describe it – perhaps it has some fancy design pattern name – but for the sake […]
Continue reading →Interesting link for people interested in interpolation and tweening, with Flash/ActionScript or otherwise: Interpolation Tricks by Jari Komppa. An award-winning Demo coder, he explains concepts related to programmatic animation from a different perspective – he never mentions Robert Penner’s easing equations, but at the same time he’s talking about the same thing, even if using […]
Continue reading →Adobe has finally updated their Flash Player Version Penetration statistics page with details for December 2008, and things are looking good. Just how good? Well, basically, Flash 10 has enjoyed the fastest adoption rate of Flash since it has been introduced, having now a 55.9% penetration on mature markets roughly two months after it has […]
Continue reading →FlashTerm, Peter Nitsch’s ActionScript Telnet client, has just gone live. It works with a sample BBS, and it’s a great example of what’s possible with AS3ANSI, his AS3-based ANSI parsing library. Read Peter’s blog for more information.
Continue reading →For what’s it worth: I’ll be giving an (online) talk about ActionScript development in Brazil December 18 (next thursday), at 22hs local time, courtesy of the Adobe User Group for Rio Grande do Sul (AUGRS). This talk will be in Brazilian Portuguese only, and it’s aimed at people who want to know more about the […]
Continue reading →This is news to me: Google Analytics is updating their tracking features and adding better support for Flash tracking – it was possible before, but it’s just getting more native, as Google is even providing an AS3-based framework for that. Below’s the email that I’ve received through my Google Analytics admin account. We are happy […]
Continue reading →As everybody knows by now, Adobe has made Alchemy – their C/C++ compiler for AVM2 (AS3-ish) SWF bytecode – available for download. We’ve seen highly visual demos, like Doom, and the old Quake 1 video where we got the first glimpse of what would become Alchemy. They’re very cool to show, and there’s some additional […]
Continue reading →I’m not very much of a radical, I believe, but I tend to judge development communities by the amount of negative or positive energy they seem to spread around. This is hard to put in objective terms, but as a positive example, I’d point to the PHP website – you have a fairly straightforward website […]
Continue reading →ANSI art visualization in the browser has matured: meet Peter Nitsch‘s AS3-based ANSI Viewer. He talks about it a bit more here. That work led him to create as3ansi, an ANSI parsing and visualization library for ActionScript 3. There’s a lot more about that here, with some sample code to illustrate; his event-driven ANSI parsing […]
Continue reading →Holy deployables, Adobe has silently made AIR 1.5 available for installation today. Among other things, it now supports Flash 10; you can find more information here (source: Jen deHaan). As I’ve just been waiting for it, I’ve now made my own crazy application/language/editor/experiment Fnk available as an AIR 1.5 application. You can install it from […]
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