Thaylin | May 27, 2008
Ok, so all in all today wasn’t a bust. I think I walked away from each session with at least a couple new things to ponder about. Not so bad.
ReflexUtil was one of those things. Looks to be a great debug utility. Check it out yourself.
Thaylin | May 21, 2008
Ok so I’m in the first seminar for flex maniacs conference. While the keynote was pretty sweet, this skinning seminar is kind of lame. Let’s hope I get at least something out of it.
Thaylin | May 16, 2008
FireBug, for those that don’t know about it, is a great little tool for debugging your apps online.
One of the many things you can do is use it as a logger. This is excellent for flash development debugging on the server as you can easliy utilize the console.log, console.debug, console.error, console.warn, and console.info. The following [...]
Thaylin | May 14, 2008
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private function randomSort(a:*, b:*):Number
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return Math.random()>.5 ? -1 : 1;
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private function myFunc():void
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var myArrayToSort = [1,2,3,4,5];
myArrayToSort.sort(randomSort);
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Thaylin | May 13, 2008
So a little update with the video project. I’ve got things importing into the Sliver clips and tweening open yada yada.
Mostly all of the tweaks are externalized, i.e. the reavling time, duration, text x and y on the clip, but the most fascinating thing was what I just discovered.
I was aware of being able to [...]
Thaylin | May 10, 2008
So for this project since I need all the text that will show up in the video to be externalized for language conversion, I have to load everything streaming. This will also cut down on loads times tremendously.
My first idea is to make this nice and quick and simple. I’ve got 2 classes that I [...]
Thaylin | May 10, 2008
So lately I’ve been working a lot on the flash for the Luxury Collection brand site. This latest piece I’m finding interesting though. I have a week to complete a video in flash. Normally, I would jsut say “screw it” and be lazy with the tweening. Not this time though. Mainly, because the video needs [...]
Thaylin | May 2, 2008
Today I was in need of a quick alert box but realized the mx.controls.Alert is not included in the accessible packages when creating an Actionscript project.
Well, after a bit of searching I found it was really quite easy. Though I imagine it bloats your app due to the component libraries added. Here it goes:
1. Right [...]
Thaylin | May 1, 2008
I was intrigued by yesterdays talk on this AS3 physics engine so I went looking for stuff. Apparently, on top of the APE engine for 2d there’s a 3d engine called the Wow Engine.
http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/
I’m still in the process of checking out the APE engine but we’ll see how that pans out and this WOW engine [...]
I've lived in New York for about four years now and before that lived in Detroit where I started my career at Raytheon developing E-Learning solutions. Once I moved to NYC I started with Starwood Hotels and Resorts working initially on Flash for the television and moving to the web dev team after that. I love anything that's random in terms of coding and am constantly thinking about how best to recreate the seemingly randomness of nature. When not having my face stuck in a computer monitor I try to give as much back to the community as possible by donating time to New York Cares taking kids from Queens to various fun and educational activities. I also dig cooking, good beer, and am addicted to TED.
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