You wish you were here…

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, [...]

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 [...]