Category Archives: Programming

All things code.

Downsampling Flash – Converting AS3 to AS2

Posted on January 8, 2009 by

I recently came across a situation where I was forced to convert a working project in Flash 9 AS3 to Flash 8 AS2. I wanted to share some of my experiences to help other weary programmers in the same predicament.

Posted in AS3, Flash, Programming, Tutorial | 15 Comments

Flash Player 10 – 3D Example

Posted on October 21, 2008 by

I’ve tinkered a bit with Flash Player 10. One thing that seems almost funny about the 3D effects of Flash thus far is that very few examples show off actually 3D objects. Most examples I’ve examined show 2D planes transformed … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Flash, Flex, Lab, Programming | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Flash player 10

Posted on October 8, 2008 by

Its that time again. Time to get into the latest and greatest tech from one of those giant software engineering companies. This time, the tech is Adobe’s Flash player 10. Step 1: download the Flex 4 SDK and the Flash … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex, News, Programming | Tagged | 7 Comments

ColourLovers API

Posted on September 16, 2008 by

Colour Lovers API lets you pull color palette information with very Flash-friendly urls and XML results! I dare you to make something with this. Also, I found this little blog post very interesting.

Posted in AS3, Design, Programming, Server-side, Site-seeing | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Double Dissapointment

Posted on August 22, 2008 by

ECMA script 4 (or 3.1) and OpenGL 3. I may be in the (rare?) position of being highly interested in two disparate technologies. The first being an online scripting language standard governed by ECMA (used in Javascript & Actionscript). The … Continue reading →

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