Flash Player 10 Resources

Theres a lot of hype right now over Adobe's Flash Player 10, codename "Astro". After checking out several resources, I have compiled a list of places that have the most recent information on Astro and additions to the API. Their is an unofficial Flash Player 10 Debugger, but I'm not sure if it works or not. I look forward to doing some interesting motion graphics effects with the new filter capabilities and the Drawing API. I wish Adobe had released this a few months ago. I would like to implement the native z into the current Wunderman project.

Adobe Labs:
Featured Demos and Videos
Getting Started
Pixel Bender Toolkit - New image processing language by Adobe
Targeting Flash Player 10 Beta with Flex SDK 3.0x


Others:
1. Senocular - Flash Player 10 Drawing API
2. Peer to peer, Speex and UDP now in Flash Player 10
3...and there's more to Player 10

Color in the Dark

Finally, I finished my latest painting. I call her, "Color in the dark".

Central Park Conservancy, Celebrating Greensward

We recently launched a probono site for Central Park. What I like most about this site is the accuracy of the navigational map. I originally developed it with x positioning as well as y, but the client wanted us to only slide up and down - Personally, I like the former. None the less there were some intricacies that you wouldn't notice at first. Firstly, I had created a loading map queue (Thanks Dan for helping out on this), The time line became some what of a nuisance, because of the option of dragging and clicking. The real joy of this was mainly the math for the map and making sure the main view displayed accurately when you have scrolled over "mini-map" with the navigational view.

The Algorithmist's Compiled WOW and PV3D Demos & Tutorials

Jim Armstrong has a sweet compiled list of WOW Engine and PV3D Demos and Video Tutorials. I recommend the 3D Sinc Plotter for viewing pleasure.

GoASAP plus Papervision 3D equals Go3D

GoASAP is a Animation ActionScript 3.0 library. It is a base framework for Tween and Physics Animations. They now have GoASAP 3D, MosesSupposes, the maker of Fuse is working with the Papervision 3D team on an API for you 3d AS3 developers. Some exciting stuff.

Away on Vacation

Tomorrow morning I'm heading to the Virgin Islands, St. John. I'll be away til next week Wednesday. I won't be updating while I'm away.

FlexManiacs 2008 Conference - May 21 - 23

Hooray! It's official, I will be attending FlexManiacs 2008 Conference. If anyone else is attending, contact me. See you in three weeks!

Adobe's Open Source Project

Exciting stuff for us Flash/Flex Developers, please read more here.

Flashbelt Conference 2008

I'm officially attending Flashbelt Conference 2008. I look forward to some good sessions. Some of my favorite Flash/Flex Developers will be speaking at this years Conferences. If anyone else is going, please hit me up.