I’ve been digging into ActionScript optimization and found some interesting results. Mind though that there’s nothing really new here, many of these tricks can be found in articles that I reference at the bottom of this posting. Array indexing Let’s start with a simple loop through the items of an array: private function method1() : [...]
I just took the Adobe Flex 2 Developer Exam and passed! I got an 80% score, though I expected it to be higher when I finished all the questions. I guess I was fooled by some clever trick questions . If you also plan on taking this exam, I recommend the following training material: Adobe [...]
Papervision3D has had a little revision which affected my tutorial. Some people had problems loading the .dae file because they used a different directory structure. I thought it would be a good idea if Papervision3D supported embedded Collada files. Turned out I wasn’t the only one, so this feature is now supported in Papervision3D’s latest [...]
Unfortunately, Flex Builder doesn’t come with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe support. Since I need to work with SourceSafe I had to come up with a solution, other than manually checking out files in the SourceSafe IDE. I found out that the solution is quite simple. The first thing to note is that we cannot use Flex [...]
[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. [...]
Yesterday the alpha version of Apollo was released. Time to put it to the test! Currently I’m working on a new version of my guitar scales application. The Flex (development) version can be seen here. I was curious about how much trouble it would be to turn this Flex application into an Apollo application. It [...]
(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.
