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My new portfolio site – williamdady.com
Over the last couple of weeks I have slowly been putting together my new portfolio site, williamdady.com, which has been long overdue. The site was developed in FlashDevelop and Flash CS4 using the PureMVC framework. I had a very specific design g...
PureMVC: Creating a short-hand Mediator
99% of coding I do lately is built on top of the excellent PureMVC framework. Something that has been irking me for a while now is the way Mediators register and handle notifications dispatched from the View. Part of working with PureMVC requires ext...
Light Steam
So it seems I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. I guess I’ve been a little busy now that I’m working full time again. Nonetheless I thought I’d throw up this little ‘light stream’ effect I’ve been working ...
Sending data with LocalConnection in Flash
As a follow up to my previous post titled “How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection” I’m going to demonstrate a slightly more advanced way of using the LocalConnection object in Flash. Receiving SWF Send...
How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection
Have you ever come across a website containing banner ads of the same creative which appear to be in sync? Here I’m going to demonstrate how this is done by giving an example of how to use the LocalConnection class in Actionscript 3.0. What is ...
Issues with Actionscript 3.0
Colin Moock, author of Essential Actionscript 3.0, has written a brilliant article over at Inside RIA called “The Charges Against Actionscript 3.0“. Colin does a great job of outlining some of the more outstanding issues currently effec...
Tips for learning Actionscript 3.0
So ive been working with Actionscript 3.0 now for well over a year now and I thought i’d share some of the tips they may help others in their quest to becoming a Flash guru. Get a reference A somewhat unfortunate reality of Actionscript 3.0 is ...
Vegemite Jar done with Papervision
A little while ago I was tasked to create this 3D version of a jar of good old aussie Vegemite for a Melbourne based advertising agency. My experience with any form of 3D rendering is pretty much non-exsistant so I used a bit of 2D to fudge the look ...
Cellpaint.com - Updated
I have just rolled out the latest incarnation of my AS3 based flash site, cellpaint.com. This latest version includes several new features including: Faster rendering Cells are drawn to one of 9 large bitmaps rather than kept as individual instances....
