Like I mentioned earlier, tomorrow I’ll be at Rio de Janeiro at the 14th Encontro de Webdesign (“Webdesign Meeting”), giving a presentation whose title translates to something like “Rich interfaces as tools for public involvement”. It’s basically a talk that aims to show why and how rich interface platforms (Flash and others) can be used, […]
Continue reading →One of the topics I’ve delved the most into while creating my graduation project last year was web-based applications – “application-like” websites in which you can do tasks that were usually restricted to full-fledged applications you usually have to install on your own computer. In my opinion, there’s this silent revolution going on, where we’re […]
Continue reading →Note: this post is in Brazilian Portuguese. Its contents – in which I ask for suggestions about an upcoming presentation I’ll give – are only important for people who live in Brazil, and as such, I’m opening an exception and writing in my own language. Sorry, everybody else. If you want, there’s a translation here. […]
Continue reading →And while I’m still in the subject, here’s a final example of how one can use getter/setters do add some functionality that doesn’t normally exist in a MovieClip: altering the registration point of a MovieClip. This is some commonly requested functionality. There are several libraries out there that do the trick, I suppose, but a […]
Continue reading →Riding on what I wrote yesterday about using getter/setters for actual state control, here’s another example of how getter/setters can be used to control how your display assets work and make your life simpler. For a while, for me, it was quite common to employ Tweener’s ColorShortcuts if I wanted to, say, tween the brightness […]
Continue reading →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 →Last year I finally delved head-first into the wonderful world of Processing. It was one of those (many) times I could college as an excuse that allowed me to spend some more serious time with something that wasn’t directly related to what I do on my day-to-day work. I used the time to create some […]
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.
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