Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

Using BitmapData to Improve Performance (And One Small Annoyance)

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Lately I've been experimenting with generative art in Flash/ActionScript 3. Its been pretty fun and I've created some interesting results. In my experience, and I can only assume in most other artists and developers cases, I really got familiar with the Flash Player's performance limitiations. More specifically, I came to ...

Get yourself to NYC for Flash and the City

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Elad Elrom last night. He's one of the organizers of the upcoming Flash and the City conference here in NYC. I highly recommend attending this conference for the following reasons: 1. Its in F*ckin' New York City! I know NYC isn't for everyone but ...

Open Source Media Framework (Sprint 8) Bug in NetStreamPlayTrait and NetStreamTimeTrait?

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Over the last two months or so I've been keeping my eyes on Adobe's Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) project. I started fiddling around with Sprint 7, seeing if I could build a progressive video player component on top of it. My first impression was that the project was still ...

New Flash Community Developments: Robotlegs and Signals

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I've come to realize that I'm always a bit hesitant to change. I was late to get a cell phone, late to join Facebook, late to join Twitter, and often late to look into developments within the Flash community. Lately I've been trying to change how often I tune into ...

Runtime Font Loading and Static TextField Conflicts

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

So I have this dilemma. It's unbelievably frustrating. I want to believe a feasible workaround exists, but after hours of messing around, I couldn't come up with anything. Allow me to explain, maybe some of you have an idea of what to do. I'm working on a Flash site that needs ...

New work from Rokkan: Mafia II Game Site

Monday, June 1st, 2009

2K Games and Rokkan launched the Mafia II website today. Very heavy experience with lots of HD video. Pretty cool stuff. Keep an eye out for new chapters to be rolled out in the near future. Shouts to Charles, Faisal, Errol, Bryan, Andy, Kat, Jessica and Mat for doing a ...