http://mrsteel.wordpress.com many things that define new days in cyberspace Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:31:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've recently experienced problems on few AS3 websites. If you embed your SWF file with different WMode, like opaque or transparent in Firefox your Flash won't load. Actually the Flash loads first frame and then it seems like it stops. Well, it certainly loads but the problem is that loaderInfo ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/code-snippets-solving-flash-problem-with-wmode-and-firefox/ Yesterday I've attended unConference Singapore, one of the biggest events I've seen here. It's all about startups, mostly focused on social component of the web. I've attended 2 session and one startup show off in what host called American Idol style. The day started pretty late for me so I've picked ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/unconference-singapore-2009-startups-and-platforms/ Company I am currently working at is on a lookout for serious Flash coder. We are having a nice stream of interesting projects and I am sure you would like the environment. Please read the job description and apply if you're interested. Hope we find somebody interesting and eager to ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/the-upper-storey-senior-flash-developer-wanted/ New great article is out talking about optimisation tips in AS3 - http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/51-actionscript-30-and-flex-op.html also very nice suggestions and speed test can be found here - http://osflash.org/as3_speed_optimizations http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/as3-optimisations-tips-and-speed-tests/ http://jp.max.adobe.com/player.html?2-10 What better could we ask for ? This is Roxik presentation from Adobe MAX, great talk even if there is no translation. But like my friend said, awesomness doesn't need translation :) http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/roxik-at-adobe-max-2008-video/ I am starting here a new series of posts, an Actionscript snippets that are useful in everyday programming. This is mainly because I don't have time to share full source codes and examples, but I will try to find it. Until then I will post codes that are small but ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/actionscript-snippets-get-flashvars-in-as3/ I am so glad to add one site to the Flash Supersites links - again there  is a great experience of discovering IKEAs ideas nad products. IKEA | PS is new product line from IKEA, and every product has it's story, which is nicely presented through Flash website, rich with video ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/flash-supersites-ikea-ps/ Say No to boxed software! The future of applications is online delivery and access. Software is passé. Webware is the new way to get things done. http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/categories.html This voting strikes to a most important thing that is now happening on internet and that's switching from desktop based to web based enviroment. I ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/webware-100-cnet-top-100-webware-voting/ Soon I will need to make a server side conversion of a SWF XML fed animation to video, and seems like I found a solution. It's Moyea SWF to Video SDK, which works really nice. If you know any other options please let me know... http://www.swfkits.com/swf-to-video-sdk/ Key Features of SWF to Video ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/swf-to-video-sdk-a-command-line-swf-to-video-conversion/ Because creator did not allow embeding I must redirect you to the Vimeo to take a look at the interesting "game" made for Microsoft Surface. It's called Genesis. this is the quote from the video description This is a deeper look at the 3D Microsoft Surface application we created recently for SxSW ... http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/interesting-ms-surface-game/