We recently finished a pretty untypical project. The client wanted to have a portfolio site, where the “cases”-pages were so different, that they did not fit in any cms or xml structure. And since the client has their own flash developer (well, more of a designer type…) they wanted to be able to maintain the FLA files themselves.
So we built the basic structure in an index.swf. The “cases” FLAs had a document class which inherited from a super class. So what if something in the superclass changes? Yes, you have to open every FLA and export it all over again.
For this case we wrote a little JSFL script with a XUL user interface. Interestingly this feature exists since Flash MX 2004 without much notice.
I never had a mailing list inside my email app. I’m using Thunderbird for several years now, but i was always too lazy to create a proper mailing list. I know that sounds funny, but every time i want to send some birthday invitations I pick every email address one-by-one from the global address book (thats where Thunderbird puts all the addresses in, i ever wrote an email to or received an email from). Ridiculous!
So if you ever have a lot of time to order all your email addresses, this tool might help you.
A couple of weeks ago i visited the entertainment trade fair IFA Berlin. And beside all the fancy LCD displays and strange looking MP3 players there was a huge multitouch display at the stand of the German Telekom.
After 10 minutes I caught myself touching and punching on the display with people behind staring at me. iPhone is nice (never without it again) but this big-time multitouch was seriously addictive. Here a short snap:
It’s done! FINALLY IT IS DONE! … this week our book is arriving at the bookstore near you. And it’s all about Flash. The first half of the book covers very interesting aspects of ActionScript2.0. The second half introduces you to ActionScript 3.0, its new features and performance boost. So keep your eyes open and check it out.
We’ reusing the FTF wordpress-plugin to view code snippets/samples. It’s a really nice plugin which automatically colors /highlights your ActionScript (and even more: js, php, python). Just put some [ ftf ] brackets around your code … the plugin does the rest.
