Category: Flash/Actionscript


Tuesday 2010/03/02
12:58 PM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

FDT 3.5

Finally installed FDT 3.5 yesterday. I don’t write Flex Apps, so the MXML support is nice to see but doesn’t really affect me. I noticed a lot more templates, and today I was pleased to see that the quick fix to rename a class also automatically renames the constructor if it is present. It always annoyed me that this wasn’t the default behavior in FDT 3.2.

I also recommend the three-part online training course on FDT by Alan Klement. More details here. Alan’s blog is also a great resource for FDT tips and also general Flash development topics.


Thursday 2009/08/06
10:24 AM

Categories:

FDT, Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

Project Names for Ant Build Files

Just posted this over at the DS Tech Blog: Project Names for Ant Build Files. Completely obvious, yet somehow it’s taken me a year to realize this. It’s not usually an issue when you only have one project open, but today I was staring at three build files in the Ant panel, all named “project”. So, just another small step towards better workflow.


Wednesday 2009/07/29
10:51 AM

Categories:

Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev

Flash Runtime Assets

My friend Andy Hatch has been working on utility classes for runtime asset loading in Flash, specifically runtime fonts. Runtime fonts are a particularly tricky thing to get right, but this looks like a clean, simple solution to the problem.


Monday 2009/07/20
12:59 PM

Categories:

Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev, Work

We Choose the Moon, FWA S.O.T.D.

Update 2009-08-04: We Choose the Moon was chosen as FWA Site of the Month!

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moon_sotd.jpg

We Choose the Moon is today’s FWA Site of the Day. The moon landing is tonight, after which the site will shift to post-live mode where you can investigate each of the stages separately.


Wednesday 2009/07/15
6:33 PM

Categories:

Flash/Actionscript, Web Dev, Work

We Choose The Moon

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I’ve been working on this site for a while: We Choose The Moon. It’ll accompany a real-time audio stream of the entire Apollo 11 mission, with each stage marked by a 3D cinematic. Great work by the crew here at Domani Studios, and our fellow astronauts from the Martin Agency and AOL.

Launch time is 9:32 AM EDT tomorrow, July 16. Buckle up.