Actionscript Halftone Effect

Some of the most satisfying graphics effects are simple in concept and execution. Like programmatically creating a half tone-style image from a bitmap, as it turns out...

SimpleFlvWriter.as - AS3 Class to Create FLV’s

An Actionscript 3 class for use with Adobe AIR to create uncompressed Macromedia Flash Video (FLV) files to the local filesystem. It will add proper onMetaData info as well. It’s very simple to use.

Seam Carving in AS3, with source

Seam carving — the recently unveiled technique by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir to intelligently resize images.

Replace "Framework" scripts in ASP.NET Ajax

A user reported at newsgroups there being an issue in Safari 1.3.2 with ASP.NET Ajax's release mode scripts. He said that release script wouldn't parse and suspects it relates to the compression (script being on one line) as with debug script it works just fine. He also said that on later Safari versions it works in both modes.

Have a look what you can do about it.

Building an SWC library using the Flex 3 SDK

It seems Gencha these days became as one of the biggest AsWing problem solvers. His today's arcticle is about building SWC lib outof AsWing sources with using Flex 3 SDK. Have a look for detailed instructions on his web site.

.Net and Ext: Coolite has the Answer

The Ext team has posted about a new community initiative that has been kicked off by Coolite, the same guys that brought you the cool ninja-inspired DateJS parsing library.

Coolite Studio, a suite of professional ASP.NET Web Controls built on the Ext JavaScript Framework, aims to make it easy for .Net developers to use Ext's UI components with Visual Studio

Yahoo NewsGlobe links 3D maps with RSS

Follow news in 3D as it happens A new Yahoo mashup allows users to follow news in 3D as it happens all over the world. Yahoo's new NewsGlobe tool links the geocoding of Yahoo's Map service to its RSS news feed and then uses a 3D ActionScript open-source library called Papervision3D to provide a new way to browse Yahoo's top news stories.

MDM Zinc™ 3.0 Released for Windows & Mac OSX

Zinc™ 3.0 (For Windows & Mac OSX) is now available to Download and Purchase! Zinc™ 3.0 Introduces yet further Innovations and Functionality whilst improving vastly on previous iterations.

Zinc has long been established as a leader in the "Flash to Desktop" movement and has provided Flash Designers and Developers the ability to create Desktop Applications based on the Flash® SWF Format. Zinc 3.0 now extends it's capabilities to Windows, Mac OSX and Linux Platforms; a first in the Flash Application Development Industry.

Bubbles from Gencha

Friend of mine, gencha, had some fun with ActionScript and once again made something really nice. Have a look http://dirty-motherfucker.org/blog/2008/02/14/yay-bubbles/

Silvafug Meeting today

When:
Tuesday, February 12th 2008
Silvafug Meeting - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Where:
EVB
1596 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Google Map of Location - http://tinyurl.com/23lvr7

Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed?

People who specialize in Web security are saying Web 2.0 as it is now can't be secured. Should we keep on this path?

February 7, 2008
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Qtopia architecture

Webkit derived from the KHTML rendering engine used in the KDE project's Konqueror browser, but today offers more advanced support for "Web 2.0" features, including asynchronous Javascript (AJAX). Webkit has a reputation for having a smaller footprint than Gecko, the rendering engine used in Firefox and many GNOME applications.

New Open Source WSO2 Registry Brings Web 2.0 Collaboration to SOA Governance

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today the debut of the WSO2 Registry, the industry's first registry to combine service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance with Web 2.0 collaboration. The open source WSO2 Registry features a structured registry and repository; Web-based interface; and Web 2.0 community features such as tags, rating and comments.

MySpace readies developer Web site

MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessary tools to build applications for the world's most popular social-networking site . Developers will have about one month to familiarize themselves with the development tools and create and test applications before MySpace begins letting its members install them early in March.

Adobe Flex Rules, Everything Else Drools

The article is basically 'Flex rules, everything else drools'. It goes on and on about the good things about Flex, while giving only cursory coverage of Flex drawbacks. Meanwhile, it's just the opposite regarding the other technologies, going on and on about drawbacks, and giving only cursory coverage of advantages...

Flash! Yahoo Updates Maps API To AS3

By David A. Utter - Mon, 02/11/2008 - 7:03pm.

The developers spoke, and Yahoo answered. Support for ActionScript 3 arrived for the Yahoo Maps API today.

At the Yahoo Flash Developer Center, Yahoo took a break from the spate of Microsoft-related takeover news to discuss something nearer to web developer hearts.

Yahoo built the new Maps API in ActionScript 3. With the API, developers gain a core set of widgets, markers, overlays and web services, to allow all kinds of API interaction.

In their announcement of the new API, Yahoo said they anticipate developers will find increased performance and lower development costs for products based on it. Yahoo also provided a screencast overview of the Maps API, with Adobe Flex evangelist Ted Patrick taking part.

Application developers who build applications that they plan to make available free of charge may use the Maps API as a free service, subject to a daily rate limit of 50,000 requests. New developers can sign up for the API key and find more resources at the API Class Reference page.

JSJaC - JavaScript Jabber Client Library

JSJaC is a jabber client library written in JavaScript to ease implementation of web based jabber clients. For communication with a jabber server it needs to support either HTTP Polling or HTTP Binding. JSJaC has an object oriented design which should be quite easy to use. Communication is done by using the XML HTTP Request object also refered to as AJAX technology. Your browser must support this.

jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio

One of the fixes in the VS2008 rollup allows for intellisense for jQuery (pre hotfix it couldn’t parse jQuery), and Rick Strahl talks in length about this, and Javascript intellisense in general...

AMF 3 specification is published

Action Message Format (AMF) is a protocol that is used to serialize the data coming into Flash Player or going out to other programming environments that need to communicate with Flash Player. Say, if you create in Java and instance of the class MyOrder.java, this instance can be converted into a string of bytes, sent over the wire to Flash Player and then recreated there as an instance of the ActionScript object MyOrder.as. The rules of how to do this are defined by a communication protocol, such as AMF. Prior to Flash Player 9, the protocol AMF0 has been used, but now Adobe offer implementation of more efficient AMF3.

The good news is that Adobe decided to make the AMF3 protocol available to the public, and you can find its description in this document.