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Adobe Flash 9 public alpha is out

June 28th, 2006 at 10:09 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe, Flash



For real, Flash Professional 9 is out in public alpha !
Meaning we can begin to familiarize with Actionscript 3 within the new IDE.
Download page here
Here are some interessing link

ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference
ActionScript 3.0 overview
Tips for learning ActionScript 3.0
Building an image-viewing widget with ActionScript 3.0
Exploring the Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview
SoundMixer.computeSpectrum()
Programming ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript Technology Center

Shared Object in Flash Lite

June 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash Lite



As I blogged about some days ago, I had to wait before receiving my Flash Lite Player for my mobile phone and that did just get me crazy. But now I’ve received my Flash Lite Player 2, so I can test my applications.
The first part that takes my attention was shared object as I thought [...]

Adobe Developer Week Record

June 26th, 2006 at 11:45 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe



Here are the links for all Sessions of the Adobe Developer Week.
It’s seems that some are a bit slow, anyway this is a gold mine.

Flash Conference in the UK

June 26th, 2006 at 11:35 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe



Flash on the Beach conference is the first major Flash conference in the UK for over 6 years! Over 40 of the world’s most talented Flash designers, developers and artists presenting on 3 tracks over 3 full days with mixer get togethers each morning and evening for essential networking opportunities. Flash on the Beach has [...]

Flash pre-deployment pattern

June 24th, 2006 at 11:26 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash, Point of View, RIA, Usability, Web Design



Here’s a little pattern I made for«homework» about the integration of usability in a website. Now that I’m nearly on holiday I found the time to transform it for Flash only.
This pattern is more developer oriented (but can overlap the designer work).
Also these are the kind of thing « a bit boring » you don’t [...]

Reasons for embracing flash lite

June 21st, 2006 at 1:03 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Flash Lite



Mariam Dholkawala (from Indiagame) presented yesterday a great presentation about Flash Lite and the work of Indiagame. The presentation was made possible by the work of The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group.
Mariam has also list the reasons of embracing Flash Lite :
Easy adaptability
Cost and time effective development
Author once and deploy on multiple platforms
Easy [...]

Want to get crazy?

June 19th, 2006 at 10:32 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe, Flash Lite



Try to buy the Flash Lite 2.0 Player from Switzerland and you will understand ;)
My first link to the FL2 player made me go to the US adobe shop, which make impossible for me to buy (as I must go to the Switzerland Shop).
So I go to Switzerland Shop and logged in, then it sends [...]

Flowers

June 12th, 2006 at 10:34 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Experiment, General



Today it was my birthday (26) and my University gave me some nice gifts, 2 exams (database & knowledge management).
So I just wanted to do something more funny for a couple of minutes, so came to life this little flower these flowers.
The code is inspired by the flowers made by Glen Rhodes in the book [...]

ActionScript 2.0 lessons

June 5th, 2006 at 8:32 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in General



Tomorrow for the first time in my life I’ll be giving lessons about actionscripting with Flash. These lessons are an introduction only and are meant for user who already has accomplished the first level of learning Flash IDE.
The lessons will cover from the real basis of OOP, passing by the multimedia scripting (video, sound, mic, [...]