You wish you were here…

Well, it’s that time of the year again, the Tour de France has once again begun in ernest. Because of the time difference here in Australia, i’d usually be sitting in front of the telly growing dark eyes for the hours of 11 to 3 watching the coverage live.

I’m sure others already know this little trick – but in case you didn’t… The filtermethod for Arrays in Actionscript 3.0 comes in handy if you want to (ahem) *filter* certain elements out of your array : var tmpArray:Array = ["oranges", "apples","oranges", "pineapple", "carrots", "oranges"]; var fruits:Array = tmpArray.filter(function(e, i, a){    var isUnique:Boolean = (a.indexOf(e) [...]

So last week I had the opportunity to get my hands dirty with PaperVision3D. As mentioned previously, the company I work for has been responsible for implementing the 2008 Earth Hour website. Well, as part of that, I had a crack at visualising the global support being given to the Earth Hour movement. Using AS3, [...]

Over at my work blog, we have just uploaded a post about how we created a Flash Text Cloud for one of our recent clients. Bottom line, if you are in need of a faux tag cloud made in Flash, there is both a download and example for you to enjoy. And if you’re interested [...]

So, at work we are currently doing some testing out of the Facebook API, and short of coming up with the next best idea on the web, I decided to re purpose a version of Solitaire I made a few years back in Flash. So here is is for everyone to enjoy :

Weird. Have just been working on a project in AS3, and have been scratching my head over a blank trace from what (as far as I could see) should be a simple XML lookup. Direct link to SWF An example of the XML im using : <pictures>   <img src=”example.jpg” [...]

So I’ve spent about a week now hacking away at the latest incarnation of Flash ActionScript. It’s been an interesting journey, and one that is getting more and more rewarding, the longer I spend time with it. AS3 has been around for a while now, but the nature of the work that I do on [...]

These guys are cool : ByteArray.org. Check out their implementation of JPEGEncoder, and their new experiment in GIF exporting (oh, and drool at the mouse gesture example!!). Makes my simple “hello world” look… well, ah, simple!

So, slowly getting there with the labs.shiftperception.com… at the moment it’s trying to find the time to get a format im happy with. I’m nearly there, and if all things are working correctly, you should be able to see the first item i the lab by hitting this link : Hello World. Likewsie, on the [...]

This has happened before, as highlighted by Senocular, but I just opened up Flash and as it launched, the application name again was showing as SmartSketch – the original name of Flash. Perhaps a Friday 13th easter egg?

OK, so this isn’t so amazing or new or anything other than what it is… which is a very simply Flash tool I made today at work to help describe to clients how long something takes to download on a 56k dialup vs a DSL connection. Props to OJ for the functions to calculate the [...]

Paper Vision 3D is a (relatively) new AS3 Flash 3D engine… using the greatly improved rendering power of Flash 9, this almost makes responsive 3D environments in Flash a possibility. Exciting! Be sure to check out this demo. It’s nothing you can’t do with Quicktime, but boy it feels good on my computer

The popular Flash javascript embed techniques SWFObject and UFO have joined forces to create SWFFix. Still in it’s alpha stage, this is a development to keep an eye on. They have already created this very useful test suite which highlights the complexity of making a generic and graceful embed technique for Flash content. Really, it [...]

Here’s a unique banner ad experience courtesy of SMH.com.au. (Click for a more detailed look) George Michael, advertising his latest offering… and usually I wouldn’t be tempted to click a banner… but this one was soo bad that I was compelled to! What was I expecting to happen? I’m not sure, maybe some tacky joke [...]

I visited the Australian goverment website promoting Australia Day 2007 yesterday, and what I saw kind of made me question if Accessibility is still an issue anymore… You see, as far as I understood it, if a site was created by the government and for the people, it needed to be accessible by everyone. First [...]