[Update 15/10/2009] The most comprehensive work about Papervision3D is this book. There are some Papervision3D tutorials out in the wild, but the ones that I’ve seen don’t start from scratch. That’s why I decided to put together this step-by-step tutorial to show you how to create a simple 3D object with Papervision3D and 3ds Max. [...]
(X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript doesn’t come standard with the Flex Builder IDE. But there is a superb plugin that supports these languages! Meet Aptana, which is also based on Eclipse. Here are the steps to take to plug this into the Flex Builder: Go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install Choose the [...]
I recently came across Alex Uhlmann’s blog and stumbled upon his excellent distortion effects. They’re based on the Sandy Flash 3D API and make it possible to switch between views in a really cool manner. I’ve implemented the CubeRotate effect in the development version of my guitarscales app. Take a look, press the “Go to [...]
Currently I’m working on a Flexified version 2 of my guitarscales app. One of the new features is a short description of the chosen scale. Because I’m too lazy to write all these descriptions myself and because Wikipedia already has a lot of them, I decided to look around for a webservice to do this [...]
I’m making some progress on version 2 of my Guitarscales application. I’m rebuilding it with Flex and I’m making it more complete. You can preview it here. Please send me your suggestions, comments, bugs, wishes, etc.
Me & my colleague Joost Verweij wrote an article about Adobe Flex development with open source tools. It is written in Dutch, but you can find the same info in this post.
A very useful ActionScript 3.0 reference sheet: http://www.flex.org/download/AS3API_01.pdf
Thanks to the free Flex 2 SDK, you can develop Flex applications without the Flex Builder. Some work has been done to make this possible in Eclipse, but a lot needs to be done to get it working. FlashDevelop, an Open Source IDE, is a lot easier to configure. I made a how-to to show [...]
