The call for submissions for the Emergent Collective Two community compilation CD closed with 2012’s dying breath. For the curious, we now present a list of contributors and their submissions. The aural submissions (in alphabetical order): ‘Anonymous’ : Introduction… Christer (McFunkypants) Kaitila : ProStyle coderjun : Truth Compilers : Giveth An Early Morning Letter, Displaced : Hope of […]
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I’ve been considering some new logo designs for my business, Fractured Vision Media, LLC, for a while now. The old logo was created back in 2005 and I wanted something simpler and more flexible. It was also important to have a visual that seemed less tied to any one period of time and better represented
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I was very tempted to forgo my usual end-of-the-year rundown with just a big middle finger to end 2012 off… this year was terrible on a number of levels; industry uncertainties around Flash and related tech, growing pains with new technologies and products, a lot of bad news from the community both in people’s personal
2012 Retrospective Read More »
When speaking of absinthe, people are often shocked by the price of a 750ml bottle – generally around $65 USD. Compared with a standard bottle of wine running at $15 or so, this understandably sounds expensive at first… but is it really? Let’s do some math. Here, we are comparing a standard size bottle of
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Please join me in welcoming Apache Flex as a top level Apache Software Foundation project with Alex Harui from Adobe as VP! Congratulations, all – what a wonderful way to close out the year :D The current release build of Apache Flex is 4.8 – a parity release with Adobe Flex 4.6. However, Apache Flex 4.9 is in release
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[okay… not really – the new compiler is just really picky] This is another rant – but like most of my rants… there is useful information to be had! This one came about as I needed to employ some UI assets created in Flash Professional and published as a SWC for use in an AS3
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I learned a couple of neat things while working on TelemetryEASY that have to do with some limitations of Starling and also communication between Starling and the traditional display list. You might wonder… why bother using Stage3D frameworks at all for a simple utility app? Mostly to increase my familiarity with Starling and especially to
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The new Flash Builder 4.7 has a nice compile option which can be enabled in pure ActionScript projects to enable detailed telemetry for measurement and profile via Adobe Scout. What about Flex projects? What about projects created with Flash Professional? Wouldn’t you want to use these with Scout as well? Adobe does have a solution
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Hey! A post on ColdFusion! (I’m so pissed at you, ColdFusion…) So it appears that Adobe changed /flashservices/gateway* = cfusion to /flashservices/gateway/* = cfusion in uriworkermap.properties for ColdFusion 10. Why is this a problem? Well, I have a lot of legacy content that makes AMF calls to CFCs in a system that is being upgraded
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Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the visual at the stage quality with which the swf has been embedded/compiled. One trick to get around this is to
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Two new major Flash Platform releases have occurred: a new version of the Flash Builder development tool and a brand new product: Adobe Scout! This is part of the larger Adobe Game Developer Tools initiative – part of the Creative Cloud. Flash Builder 4.7 After two beta releases on Adobe Labs, Flash Builder 4.7 has
Flash Builder 4.7 and Adobe Scout 1.0 Released Read More »
Adobe has announced a great new addition to the Creative Cloud: Game Developer Tools! The addition of this set of tools reinforces a commitment to the Flash Platform on top of the already rapid advances in runtimes we’ve seen over the past year. Making this new set of gaming tools a part of the Creative
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