http://durej.com ActionScript and Beyond... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:29:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have been using FDT for about 3 and a half years now, on many occasions I came across a code that , although perfectly compilable (both by mxmlc and flash IDE), FDT thought it contained errors. For example when code contained some "clever" trinary operator arguments, or a javascript code segments wrapped in CDATA ... Anyway, ... http://durej.com/?p=121 Adobe has recently unveiled their new social media library on Labs. It is a framework that allows user to connect to a several popular social media networks at once and get the information from the users profile, get a friends list, post updates, post news items etc... All in all ... http://durej.com/?p=119 I code in AS3 for quite a while now, and don't get me wrong, I do love it and I NEVER want to go back to as2. However; there are some things I wish remained in AS3 that were possible to do in AS2. Things like "eval" and "attachMovie" comes to mind... Why ... http://durej.com/?p=115 I never do a post just about somebody else's blog post , but after reading this - http://kevinsuttle.com/found-and-lost-the-flash-ide I felt compelled to react. I fully agree with the author about the majority of the points he makes in this article. Adobe, and many other users of the flash platform, seems to think, ... http://durej.com/?p=114 Augmented reality is slowly becoming perhaps somewhat of a bevel effect/lensflare among the technology enthusiasts, but actually it's only beginning to creep into consciousness of the "marketing people" (as I call them) so I though it's high time I joined the ranks and pop my AR cherry. : - ) This demo ... http://durej.com/?p=112 It all started when I decided to try out the new Flex 4 Beta. The aim was to build Collada viewer that loads the dae files from the users' filesystem / harddrive using new flash 10 FileRef API. What seemed like a pretty straightforward task turned into a Nightmare Lite ... http://durej.com/?p=110 After some requests from readers of this blog. I've decided to port my Explode class, that was written a while ago in AS2, to AS3, and while doing so, I also made some improvements to it as well. The main difference is that you can use different functions separately now. For example you can use ... http://durej.com/?p=107  Rather then writing the summary of the FOTB conference experience, as I did the last time, from 2 year ago, this year I decided to write some suggestions, or a wish list of the things I'd like to hear about, and perhaps as well, things I don't want to hear ... http://durej.com/?p=106 I've decided to share a bunch of flash games I build for various clients over the past few years. Most of these aren't online anymore, and I thought it wold be a shame if they all went to waste : ) http://durej.com/?p=105 In keeping with the space theme from my previous post (and not wanted to leave Starfield entirely empty) here's another papervision parametric 3D object/component : Asteroid.  Similarly to Starfield, asteroid is textured with pragmatically generated texture, so no need to look for images, it has configurable surface deformation as well and it's default ... http://durej.com/?p=97