Well done Doshisha University. The lovely Flash intro impressed on how simple Flash intro can be really nice. The whole site is built using Flash and you’ll be amazed seeing the timeline animation. ACM announced the rank list in which includes India on second place and Slovakia on 3rd.
I’m no CSS expert. I used CSS a lot in the past building my CMS, but recently I haven’t done anything in CSS. Deziner Folio posted a great, kick in the ass, article about creating liquid tab or button using CSS and XHTML. The outcome of the design looks great. I might aswell use that method for my future designs.
Flex Cookbook is looking for authors. If you have a Flex recipe and you like to publish it on a famouse series of books from O’Reilly here is your chance.
Interview with, Scott Petersen, the creator of the C/C++ translator into ActionScript 3.0. The sneak peak playing Quake game after converting it from C/C++ into Actionscript made alot of arguments on how powerful AS3.0 is. The MAX sneak peak of playing the game shows Quake running in Flash Player.
I love it when people write their own perspective about designing or programming. It always extends my view on those topics. This topics is posted in The Jim Whimpy Weblog and it really amazed me with all those points I didn’t think off or I didn’t realize it well.
Get for instance “Don’t Bold Headings”, I ALWAYS bold the headlines. But after seeing the design of his post, I think I will reconsider about bolding the headlines.
Ever heard of Zend, CakePHP, symphony frameworks for PHP? Duane OBriend, a PHP developer and freelancer explains about how to select the right framework for your work and how to install them. I’m a big fan of CakePHP because it suites the type of work I do.
Thanks to Flex RIA United, they posted actionscript resources websites on their blog.
Here is their list:
Action Script Library – A collection of code snippets for use with ActionScript.
ActionScript.org Library – A collection of over 700 scripts for you to use, a large selection of tutorials and more.
Actionscript Physics Engine – A free 2D physics engine for Actionscript 3 from MIT.
ActionStep.org – An ActionScript 2.0 open source component framework for writing to the Flash player.
Animation Package – An ActionScript library (Flash player 6 and above) with a focus on keeping file sizes down.
AS2lib.org – The AS2 library open source framework to work with Actionscript 2.
AS2Unit.org – An Actionscript 2 testing framework that lets you run repeatable tests on your classes.
Flalog.com – Tips, tricks, and tutorials for Flash and ActionScript.
FlashKit.com – Code snippets, reviews, links, over 1,000 tutorials.
Flashtica.com – A designer-oriented site with open source scripts and links to lots of resources.
GoToAndLearn.com – A site with very in-depth video tutorials on various aspects of Flash.
Jim’s Flash Bestiary – A collection of small Flash movies with accompanying source code to learn from.
Kirupa.com Tutorials – An extensive collection of tutorials on just about every conceivable aspect of Flash.
OneFlex.org Codes – A site for people to post and share code snippets for ActionScript and MXML.
OSFlash.org – A home for open source Flash projects that any registered member can contribute to.
Smart Webby Flash Tutorials – A collection of tutorials for Flash for beginner to advanced developers.
TutorialOutpost Flash Lessons – A huge collection of tutorials on many aspects of the Flash program.
Oh yes.. I meant the “!!!!!!!!” thing! Can you believe that you can play Quake I on Flash? That’s what you’ll see on this video.
Peter Elst has uploaded video sneak peek of Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago. Scott Peterson’s C/C++ conversion to AS3 tool is truly amazing. He converts the whole Quake game which was written in C++ into AS3 and played the game in flash player.
Peter Elst posted few sneak peek videos of MAX Chicago 2007. He is in process uploading all sessions he attended on that conference.
Ever wondered what to do when your PHP script takes long time to execute? Especially when users value time and won’t wait long to open a web page. There is a solution for that by running part of your PHP code in the background as SiteCrafting Blog posted. It’s simple as this article shows the command needed to execute a PHP scripts in the background without interfering with the page loading. It only works in Linux servers.
<%
$command = "/usr/bin/php4 -f /var/www/myweb/image_resize.php";
exec( "$command > /dev/null &", $arrOutput );
%>
That code will execute the image_resize.php in the background. The PHP file that uses this command will be loaded normally without waiting for exec() to be done.
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a simple cartoon animation like the one hereunder:
It is easy, simple steps, and totally suitable for beginners.
