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June 1 2009, 6:14am | Comments »
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Scott Janousek » Blog Archive » Adobe Flash Platform extends into Digtial Home
http://flashmobile.scottjanousek.com/2009/04/22/adobe-flash-platform-extends-into-digtial-home/
April 23 2009, 10:28pm | Comments »
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I posted to i-create.org
Papervision3D 3D Picasa
http://i-create.org/2009/01/19/papervision3d-3d-picasa/
I have been busy at work and in my spare time I have been working on redoing my portfolio. It is my goal to have a new version up soon and I will most likely be removing the old. Through this process I have increased my knowledge of flex and as3. I have been displaying a few alphas on my blog these will eventually all be rolled into the main application. So here is yet another alpha. I have created a Papervision3D RSS parser for Picasa. Please note on google code you can find a library for AS3 Picasa I choose not to use it because it did not suit my specific needs in this project. I found an extremely useful library of code that easily allows me to parse out MediaRSS one important thing to point out is because I used picasa not only did I have to parse out the MediaRSS but I had to use flash file reference to check when the images are loaded. Another tricky gotcha I found was the fact that Picasa will not allow you to embed pictures that are larger than 800 pixels wide in the flash player. It took me awhile to discover this the odd thing about this in particular is in FireFox it will load your images and render them but in Chrome, IE, and Safari you will see nothing. The previously mentioned MediaRSS parser will also come in handy when writing mashups that interact with youTube (also utilizes MediaRSS). I love Picasa and that is why I have chosen to create a 3D version of my Photo Albums. When you click here to see the photo album please note that I have not yet implemented a loader yet. You can scroll though the images by rolling your mouse wheel. Please be sure to keep in mind this is only an alpha.
This will eventually be incorporated into my new portfolio. So as you can see I have been very busy. I am also excited to utilize FlashCS4 I love the fact that adobe has released Pixel Bender. This will make creating filters a snap and you will be able to use them in After Effects, Photoshop, and Flash. Adobe has also been working on Flash Catalyst formerly Thermo. I am also excited to see a new application in the flash family. I believe this will enable designers to easily port their photoshop documents to Flex without having to write any code(which I am sure they will like). It will also be nice for developers because it is built to directly integrate into the Flex workflow. Another development worth mentioning is SWX has released an AS3 Version. So that completely rocks and it makes writing mashups for flash a snap:) I will be making some of these items flash components and selling them. PaperVision3D Picasa Album Reader Alpha MediaRSS AS3 Code Library Pixel Bender Tutorial Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™
January 19 2009, 6:05pm | Comments »
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I posted to i-create.org
Alchemy Its No Myth
http://i-create.org/2008/11/27/alchemy-its-no-myth/
The future of web applications lies in the hands of rich internet application developers. The two main platforms of the future will be Adobe Flash/Flex/Air and Silverlight. This should be extremely apparent to most web developers now. Web applications have been evolving more and more to act like desktop applications. In web 2.0 we saw many applications that utilize AJAX. AJAX should be required for most if not all web applications today because people have come to expect interactions AJAX enables developers to create. The problem with AJAX lies in the fact that you have to create css, javascript, and xml and then have the browser execute it. This causes problems because different browsers execute the same code with a variety of results. The end result to the developer; well I think it was covered in Dante’s Inferno somewhere around the Ninth Circle of Hell. It isn’t a pleasant place to be making things work in multiple browsers sucks it’s very difficult it is doable but ads to your production costs. In comes our savior RIA’s why because they use plugins. Now you can actually develop an application and expect it to work in a specific manner every time you use it. Who would have thought? Adobe flash is by far the most developed RIA platform to date. Adobe has also made many strides to open source its code and share with the community. Today there are numerous tools that will allow you to build swf files.
Recently Adobe announced Alchemy they have been talking about it for years but it is now out on their labs site for download. So what is Alchemy it enables the developer to utilize any c/c++ code that is open source and automagically convert it into something more useful an SWC file that can be utilized in flash! So you can now execute the code in the Flash Player and this of course rocks. You have already seen people utilizing it and creating games with it like Doom in flash. I think is well worth looking at some of those old c/c++ projects over on sourceforge and experimenting with Alchemy. Now to be fare they are not the only company to think of a solution like this. If you look at silverlight you will find that you can utilize the Dynamic Language Runtime(DLR) and this allows developers for the most part to pick and choose their favorite programming language and work with it like ruby, java, or php you get the idea. At first I must admit I really hated the idea of Silverlight but over the years and after studying the new release I am sold. I have been working on applications for a new version of my portfolio and I will be utilizing both Silverlight and Flash. One thing I might add about the dynamic language runtime is it is different from Alchemy. Why? The dynamic language runtime allows developers to utilize multiple languages in a project when it is done it is sent to the compiler and becomes bytecode. When you use alchemy you are using LLVM it actually converts the code into AVM2 bytecode. I would suggest reading Nicolas Cannasse’s blog it will give you a clearer perspective at what Alchemy actually is and what it means. I am anxious to see what Alchemy can do and as a result I have installed in on a virtual Ubuntu machine. One thing that is nice about the DLR is you can mix different languages into the same project you can also share the same variables across multiple languages while this may not be good for large projects and could generate unmanageable code I can see it coming in handy in a pinch. One thing I might add about silverlight is I believe that Microsoft is going to port lots of .Net to run in silverlight. So what platform do you develop for? I say both. Everyone loves flash and flash will be on ARM devices soon. It already has Android and Windows Mobile devices. Adobe engineers will make it work! For now their seems to be no sign of Apple’s iPhone or iPodTouch devices utilizing flash which really sucks for the user but is evidently good for Steve Jobs. It seems apple is destined to make the same mistakes over and over again. What developers really want is to create something once and run it anywhere and everywhere. Silverlight will soon go mobile too and I would expect them to run into the same issues on apple devices which is a shame for the consumer I guess they will be able to sell more iTunes app this way though. Thoughts on Alchemy it took sometime to install I had to change the default config file that Alchemy came with for Ubuntu it was looking for the syslinks for LLVM in the wrong spot in short just change the location in the config file than run it also make sure you have all your paths correct in .bashrc once you have these you should be good to go some of the information on the labs website is maybe a little difficult to interpret. I also found these links (Alchemy has arrived eventually! And Solution for nothing on Linux) and they helped solve my problems. If anyone want I can post my .bashrc and config just let me know. In other news: Processing is now out of Beta! You can find books on Processing here. Links of Interest: Alchemy on Adobe Labs Understanding Adobe Alchemy Nicolas Cannasse Weblogs on Adobe Alchemy Doom – Quake – How to edit Quake Code in Visual Studio X2O Project Ensemble Flash Goes Mobile Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™
November 26 2008, 10:26pm | Comments »