Monthly Archives: October 2007

Flash / Flex podcast

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Mims H Wright

I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a Flash / Flex podcast. The plan is to get drunk and talk about Flash but maybe you have a better idea. Do you care? Would you listen? What should we call … Continue reading →

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Orangesanity

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

I don’t know about you, but Half-Life the first was, at the time, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the best game I had played. The AI was great to battle against, there was an honest-to-god story, there were surprises … Continue reading →

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Thermo makes us all a little less dumber

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Mims H Wright

It’s the classic story in Flash development. A designer puts hours and hours of work into a Photoshop document or a Flash animation that ultimately gets thrown away and rebuilt when it comes time to develop the application. I’ve often … Continue reading →

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So We’ll Just Build Your Site in C++ Then, Thanks

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Roger Braunstein

Check out Peter Elst’s collection of Sneek Peek sessions from MAX. I’m on the verge of tears looking at Scott Peterson’s C/C++ on Flash demonstration. What… the… hell. He seems to indicate that he’s written a C++ to AS3 translator, … Continue reading →

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My first Hydra

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Mims H Wright

If you watched the video from our previous post, you no doubt have heard of Hydra and AIF – the new image processing language for Adobe products including Astro. I’ve since downloaded the AIF Toolkit and played around with it … Continue reading →

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