Yahoo has released their Yahoo Maps API for AS3 which allows web developers to add mapping capabilities to Flash. Cool now we can use either Google Maps or Yahoo Maps in our Flash or Flex applications. Initiate the map simply by:
import com.yahoo.maps.api.YahooMap;
var yahooMap:YahooMap = new YahooMap("YOUR-APPID", stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
this.addChild(yahooMap);
Ted Patrick has posted some of its features here.
No it is not and I think it kicks ass. It is easy, simple, and very user friendly to use or to learn. To backup my claim, Colin Mock, the famous writer, has published a new article in InsideRIA that backups my claim and pitches all the hype around AS3.0.
A set of hand-picked profissional flash tutorials by Smashing Magazine. Those tutorials are hard to find and sometimes you simply can’t find them.
Hearing of Flex or Adobe Flex a lot without any idea what the hell does it mean? If yes, then here is a new published post in Ted’s blog talking about Flex and what is Flex.
AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime, is one of the new technologies introduced by Adobe to create a desktop applications using Flash/Flex. To get started with AIR, a new tutorial published to teach the basics of AIR and how to get started.
For whoever is interested, I got a project for my E-Learning course and I have to advertise my online class as a homework. If you are interested in Arabic online course for Actionscript you can visit it here:
http://t3leem.6moo7.net/course/view.php?id=54
The winner of Aral Balkan‘s SWX contest has been announced few hours ago. For more information check out SWX blog.
Adobe has announced the BlazeDS beta release on Adobe labs. Now you can connect data between your Flash application and any other applications whether it is made by PHP, Ruby…etc.
Now, developers can easily connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.
Papervision 3D version 2.0 is now out in Alpha (pre-beta) version. According to Ralph Hauwert the alpha version is not yet optimized so expect a lot of updates to come.
The announcement came 6 day after celebrating the first anniversary for Papervision as an open source project. Papervision has been used by many Flash developers to create 3D interactive environment in Flash using Actionscript programming language. It even goes further, as it is being used to create 3D games for consoles such as Nintendo Wii!
Switch blog has a new tutorial post which shows how to create shadows for UI components in Flex. Shadows have become more popular after the release of Visa and Leopard with their ‘shadowed’ dialogs and windows.
As many of you know, Flex is mainly for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using Flash technology. Anything done in Flex can be also done in Flash. But Adobe wants to make life easier for web developers by making Flex a more coding environment and more easy to programmatically create your UI.
