Tutorial | Creating Road Maps

05/12/2008 10:59 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Illustrator

Sooner or later every designer comes across the exciting job of producing a map, whether it’s on a leaflet or website the overall aim is to visually document a particular area of land to allow for people to find their way to a place of business or event. This tutorial will cover the process of using [...]

Snackr, an RSS ticker built using AIR and Flex

05/12/2008 10:00 am in AIR

I realized a few months ago that, unlike pretty much everyone else I know, I don’t regularly use an RSS reader. Not that I haven’t tried—I used FeedDemon early on, and more recently tried out Google Reader—but never managed to form the habit of checking them regularly. Both of them are fine apps; the problem [...]

Twitter Yields First Fruits

05/12/2008 09:08 am by Brooks Andrus in Misc

Twitter has always seemed like one part silliness and two parts vanity. I’ve just never seen the value in it (I blame my advanced age). However, I’ve been more inclined to jump in as a listener of late. I don’t know what changed. Maybe my multitasking capabilities have just improved enough to add yet another [...]

Tutorial | Create a Professional Business Background

05/12/2008 09:00 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Illustrator

Creating backgrounds is often part of the process of creating good designs. Here we will create a professional business style background, which could be used in many of your projects. For example, in presentations, advertisements, or website headers. This is a beginner level tutorial showing how to create a background in Illustrator. We will be using [...]

Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0805b

05/12/2008 07:37 am by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flex

This week I thought of bringing a bunch of exciting contributions for ever increasing with each passing day. Using CoverFlow Flex Component A detailed and interesting tutorial that explains how one can use the CoverFlow component to create sleek effects. Detecting an alert control close A neat code example of how one can detect the close of [...]

Scaling Web Video / Services

05/12/2008 06:35 am by Brooks Andrus in Misc

Scaling is not my thing, but Greg Linden continues to be a great source to poach from. His post on Facebook’s database architecture included a link back to a video presentation of YouTube’s approach to scaling during their buildup.

There’s lots of good info here, but I was struck by a [...]

Mathworld Problem of the Week (free book!)

05/12/2008 05:59 am in Flash

This week’s subject is Malfatti Cirlces: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MalfattiCircles.html They look something like this: Basically, tangent circles, but each circle is also tangent to two sides of the given triangle. The challenge would be to take the file below: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/malfatti_circles.fla and fill in the drawMalfattiCircles() method with some code that will actually draw correct Malfatti Circles. Feel free to create additional helper functions [...]

Open Letter to Component Developers and Vendors: Sell Your Code, Too!

05/12/2008 05:40 am by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Flash

I work at a small shop. We work smart. Pretty agilely, for the most part. We have also built up a large repository of code, both AS2 and AS3 amongst other platforms (PHP, ASP .Net, etc) and do benefit a lot from intelligent reuse of assets and a very cool custom LCMS we have built [...]

New Blog

05/11/2008 11:12 pm in Flash

For the non-Flash stuff: http://keith.bit-101.com/

Absolutely Brilliant Data Visualization - TED Talks, Hans Rosling.

05/11/2008 07:54 pm by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Uncategorized

This video is over a year old, but perhaps even more pertinent considering world challenges facing us today (US inflation, growing oil costs, changing geopolitical climate in Russia, etc, etc.)… But really, you must watch this video. The message is of course fantastically important and the charting and data visualization is just amazing. He makes [...]

Detecting a mouse up outside event in AS3

05/11/2008 06:29 pm by Flex RIA United in ActionScript

In ActionScript3 event driven programming plays a major part with mouse or key pressed and even a text field having events associated with them. Events indicate action e.g. mouse press corresponds to “mouse down” event and vice versa is “mouse up” event. To check if mouse release (mouseUp -Event.MOUSE_UP)) has happened on the target object on [...]

Free Flash Conference Anybody (yes, as in free beer)?

05/11/2008 04:52 pm by Quasimondo in

Yes, you read correctly. Free. Multi-Mania 08 is a one day, five(!) track Flash + multimedia conference taking place in the beautiful small town Kortrijk, Belgium on Friday, May 23rd 2008. Koen De Weggheleire has once more managed to gather a hot lineup of more than 30 top-notch presenters - among them Aral Balkan, Peter Elst, Dave Schroeder, Ralph Hauwert, Rob Chiu and Hoss Gifford, just to name a few. I, too, have the big pleasure to speak there for the second year in a row and I'm really looking forward to it, especially after Koen told me that my

Google App Engine SDK 1.0.2

05/11/2008 01:20 pm by Aral Balkan in google app engine

Google released version 1.0.2 of the Google App Engine SDK two days ago. If you're using Google App Engine, you should definitely upgrade. You can find a list of fixed issues in the release notes, including the template cache issue that I was running into. Also, it's not in the release notes but I just confirmed that [...]

Verifying SHA1 checksums on downloads

05/11/2008 12:31 pm by Aral Balkan in Tools and Utilities

If you download development tools you will probably have come across SHA1 or MD5 signatures for downloads in the past. It's very easy to test the download to make sure that the checksum is valid. For MD5 signatures, you simply type: md5 name_of_file And for SHA1 signatures: openssl sha1 name_of_file However, both those methods require you to manually [...]

Override classes from included libraries

05/11/2008 09:59 am in Air

During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy: Get all existing [...]

Creating Graphics Copies with ActionScript3

05/11/2008 05:29 am by Flex RIA United in ActionScript

Since ActionScript3 is the core to Flash/Flex RIA it contains an expansive repertoire of display objects, graphical methods to create such applications. At the same time for design of such an application may need replication of same object several times. E.g. virtual pool table With AS3, in order to duplicate the properties of a Display object [...]

generate random Strings in AS2 or AS3

05/11/2008 01:03 am by zedia flash blog in ActionScript 3

I was searching for a function to generate random Strings either in AS2 or in AS3 but I couldn't find any so I made my own using code from a typewriter effect, but I can't seem to find the page anymore. I use this code when I load dynamic content from php and such and [...]

Review | Eltima Flash Decompiler Trillix 3.1

05/10/2008 09:28 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

I’ve just tested the last version of Eltima’s Flash Decompiler Trillix 3.1, and there are some cool features it worth to be mention. I never used before Trillix, but now on, i can say that will be my first option, and i will tell you why: 1 - The Trillix have a cool layout, similar to [...]

Here comes the real AIR apps! - FedEx Desktop

05/10/2008 07:39 pm in Adobe AIR

As excited as I have been about Adobe AIR, I’ve been a bit frustrated at the lack of real-world, useful applications that take advantage of some of the amazing features that AIR provides. Recently, I’ve started seeing some great progress! Here is a great example: FedEx just released FedEx Desktop, an AIR application for tracking packages. [...]

Showcase | Bestiario - How to graphically show data in 2D and 3D

05/10/2008 05:00 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in 3d

Biskero, is a nice site using PV3D, that shows you several ways to graphically display data. It is one of the showcases, about data display. Hope it can helps you, on your future projects, when handling with graphic data.

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