Wonderfl Build Flash Online

Wonderfl Build Flash Online is a website where you can type your Flash code and see result online. Here are some details :

Who made this?

KAYAC Inc.‘s lab team: BM11.
Director: sugimasa
Designer: hashimoto
Markup Engineer: sakakibara
Programmer: ohtsuka
**KAYAC Inc.’s Flash Developer team blog: level0

Actionscript3 compiler version

Version 3.2.0 build 3794

Actionscript3 libraries which you can use in your code

as3corelib, version: 0.92.1
tweener, version: 1.31.74
Progression, version 3.0.8
Thread, version 1.0
Frocessing, rev.2067@libspark(maybe)
contact us if you want to use more libraries.

Users can share their work, and there are already a lot of interesting stuff there. Respect for Kayak crew.

Oblong g-speak – The Spatial Operating Environment

Take a look at this interesting technology, mixing futuristic user control, environment awareness and collaboration…

Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.

The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.

videos on vimeo

Flex in a Week – Adobe Training Course for Flex 3 [video]

Flex in a Week is a set of more then 40 tutorials from Adobe. Lessons cover complete Flex 3 training. I must say I am impressed with Flex in a Week because it’s just goes directly to the points leaving out any unnecessary talk behind. Great stuff, Adobe should release this kind of tutorials for every of their major products.

So, how to get Flex in a Week… I’ve taken a guide from Anand Vardhan blog

It is available through Adobe Media Player, which is a great product itself.

1. Install AMP
2. Click “My Favorites” menu at the top.
3. Click “Add RSS Feed” at the bottom.
4. Paste http://sessions.adobe.com/FlexInAWeek/feed.xml

Problem is that AMP can cache only 6 videos at a time, but you can always access cache folder of AMP and copy files to your own folder which I am doing now so I can have all 40 videos all the time 🙂

EDIT : thanks to jase another way is to open Feed and download flv movie directly 🙂

The Actionscript Conference Overview + slides from presentation

Weeks after The Actionscript Conference in Singapore I  can sum up all good things we’ve got and experienced there. TAC was event organized by Flex User Group Singapore. FUG Singapore is focus on Actionscript, Flex and Flash and other related services and server-side technologies.  This was a first conference I’ve attended and spoke at, so I surely cannot be objective enough, but I think that most of the speakers and attendees would agree TAC was a huge success.

At the start of the conference Hu Shunjie talked about Passion. Nice way to present actionscript community. It really relies on passion and inspiration from the very beginning and it feels strong even 10 years later.

In series of presentations of really great speaker line-up attendees could hear and see a lot of new Flash Player 10 features (Lee Brimelow), API references, Web Services, AIR developement (Marco Casario, Peter Elst).

PowerFlasher team had great presentation about their FDT Actionscript IDE. Micheal Plank demonstrated powerfull FDT features and speedcoding which gives you freedom. Micheal had great workshop also day before conference, demonstrating workflow that FDT makes possible using ANT compiling, SWC and SWF linking and a lot more…

Mohammed Khan had only presentation that was more design oriented. It was very good to hear a little introspective in designer developer workflow in Flex and where it should be in time that comes.

Prayank Swaroop presented BlazeDS, server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology. It is free solution and seems to me more and more used in Flex project because of it.

Most amazing presentation was given by Stefan Wessels, a Flash Lite guru. He presented Flash Lite from the perspective of the Darth Vader and the dark side. Seems like Flash Lite really inspires and through his inspirational talk he invited as to join the dark side, creating Flash Lite content, which is not so widespread…

I gave my presentation at the end of the day. I am not sure how it looked like but from my point of view I would be happy if people could remember few important things that connects Flash Platform and Socialnetworking. Flash is great platform for developing, present at more than 90% of internet enabled devices. It is fairly easy and cost-free platform. It support all socialnetworking interactions but lacks in SEO and semantic web which will mean a lot in future. My slides are available at SlideShare

Pictures from the conference at Flickr
Lee Brimelow video report
Interviews with some of the speakers

Great news is that preparation for next TAC has already started. Organisers should consider 2 days instead of one, so people can talk more, and focus more on speeches. Anyway, this was a boost I hope for Singapore Actionscript community which I am proud to be a part of.

MySQL Workbench – DBDesigner successor

Successor, such a nice word, especially because it contains success and in this case refers to wonderfull piece of software, called DBDesigner. I used DBDesigner for designing a lot of MySQL databases. Tool is great, wonderfull, makes your life easier, and it was always free…

Today I’ve checked fabForce site, home of Michael G. Zinner and his DBDesigner and I saw that DBDesigner has successor, called MySQL Workbench. It it made by MySQL team led by Michael G. Zinner. Yet another nice story about how sharing your skills can lead to some bigger achievements.

So, I’ve downloaded MySQL Workbench… Progress on the software can be seen immediatly, much more options to work with, nices usability and so on… Thank you MySQL and Michael!

MySQL Workbench page

Flash Superapps : FontStruct

Today I saw great Flash application, FontStruct… It is font creation software online, done in Flash which enables you to create amazing fonts very easily. I was amazed how a complex thing became a thing of talent, FontStruct simply rocks!

from FontStruct website :

”

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.

Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.”

Give it a try ! You can share you font or keep it for yourself…

Google’s browser – Chrome

Sounds like good news, even that new browser may sound like a lot more headache for developers. But if it’s open sourced, based on well known WebKit that shouldn’t be a problem. It can even be a best thing happened to internet because todays browsers are cool, but not good enough. I like Firefox but still, I can love some other better browser. Especially after Firefox 3.0.1 kept crashing every time I start it… until I’ve turned all my add ons, one by one… If Firefox is making me headache you can imagine how I feel using Internet Explorer.

Google Blog post about Chrome

Scott McCloud Comic about Chrome

source : Blogscoped

Screenshots

FlashDevelop 3 beta 8 is out…

FlashDevelop is great Windows IDE for developing Flash, Flex and AIR application, as well as accompanying Javascript and PHP file.

Follow this link to get more info and download FlashDevelop beta 8.

Please donate to the project if you are using it.

From the forum post :

About FlashDevelop:

* Features
* Screenshots

Changes:

GUI:
* New “fullscreen” editor mode
* New common GUI for AS2Api and ASDoc
* SWF exploration shows the frame where definitions are imported

ActionScript:
* Fine tuned code completion
* Dynamic syntax highlighting: custom classes get colored like flash classes (MovieClip, Event, etc)
* Completion for package-level declarations and Flash 10’s Vector.<T> type
* New generator: Ctrl+Shift+1 on a non-imported type to generate the import
* Go To Declaration (F4) with SWC classes display a generated pseudo-class
* Improved generators

MXML:
* Tags with ID now appear in outline view and <script> code completion
* Updated completion (generated using a tool available in SVN)

Templates:
* Improved MXML projects templates
* New optimized AS3 project template with preloader (no Flex dependencies)
* Templates now include an index.html with swfobject.js

PHP:
* Now featuring simple PHP completion

Better then Photosynth – Uni. Washington and Microsoft [VIDEO]

University of Washington and Microsoft created together a software which looks like next step Photosynth. In project titled “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos” shown in video above it is presented what they’ve achived, like finding orbits that best displays objects in 360 views, optimised  transition between two photos putting natural set of photos inbetween so it looks more natural, panoramas, and interesting views which all makes you browse and get more natural feel with photos taken.

I am sure all of this features are made to be put into the Photosynth. Great stuff.

Lee Brimelow Interview with Justin Everett-Church, Senior Product Manager for Flash Player

Very nice interview by Lee Brimelow with Justin Everett-Church, who is the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player, about some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Flash Player 10 and our new search technology.
I somehow missed this one, and I am very happy to watched it now. I like the non-hype realistic talk Justin presented.

Watch the interview at TheFlashBlog by Lee Brimelow

One note more is that Lee Brimelow will be presenting at The Actionscript Conference in Singapore… Great news.