As posted on www.bfpug.com :
First Meeting Space Confirmed!
So we have ok for a space to use. It?s at the Mass Medical Society Waltham offices, 860 Winter Street in Waltham. We?ll be in the Charles River Room which is on the ground floor. They will provide some refreshments, and projector if needed. Directions can be found here:
We have the room from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, December 29th, so come on over any time within that window. I think this meeting will be pretty informal, just get to meet everyone and talk about future plans, etc. We?ll schedule an official meeting for January at the Adobe Newton offices.
Read more...I agreed to speak at FiTC in Toronto in April, but I haven’t come up with a topic yet. So, any suggestions? I think something out of Making Things Move would be cool, but is there a specific area, topic or chapter you would like to hear more about? I need to submit my topic in the next day or so.
Read more...Well, the Boston Flash Platform User Group (BFPUG) now has its site up and first meeting scheduled. Visit https://www.bfpug.com for more info.
Read more...Earlier this week I sent an email out to a bunch of Flasher’s in the Boston area to see who might be interested in getting together, either as a formal group or a “beer and a design pattern” discussion. I guess the timing was right, because suddenly we find ourselves with an official sanction to start a Macromedia User Group.
Now, there is already an official MMBUG here, but rather than having a dozen newcomers come in and take over their group with all Flash stuff, we decided to start our own group, specifically targetting Flash, Flex, Flash Mobile, the entire Flash Platform, Rich Internet Application Building, Patterns in ActionScript / Flex, etc., and have been given the OK by MM to do so.
Read more...So the next two big conferences (in my part of the world anyway) are Flash Forward in Seattle in February, and Flash in the Can… oops, I mean FiTC in Toronto in April.
My plans:
Flash Forward. I’m going to try to make it, but not totally sure. Definitely too late to speak there, all speaker slots are pretty much filled. It does look like I’ll be doing some judging for the Flash Forward Film Festival, though. Never been a judge before! Not sure which category yet, but I’m sure it will be fun.
Read more...A bit of fun today. This is something I wasted part of a slow day on about a year ago with Colby and Sam feeding me words. I ran across is today and added a few more words to it.
https://www.bit-101.com/acrogen/
Just enter your acronym and click “Generate” and see what it might stand for. Yes, you can enter your boss’s name. Yes, you can try dirty words. 🙂
[update: just go to the link. It depends on a couple different text files that need to be in the right spot and it’s hell trying to keep track to them in MT.]
Read more...So far, only one reported typo in the book. A couple of people have caught it. Thought I’d put it up here so it slips up a few less people, and I have a place to point people when they ask. It’s in Chapter 5, page 106, and ch05_03.fla. In the first few lines of the onEnterFrame function, it states:
var radians:Number = angle * Math.PI / 180; var vx:Number = Math.cos(angle) * speed; var vy:Number = Math.sin(angle) * speed;
The correct code should be:
Read more...I’ve been using Darron Schall’s xmi2as tool along with ArgoUML for a while to create UML that would eventually spit out some class structures.
Now, I know that open source will save the world and all… but I just caught on to Enterprise Architect. The newest version, the 6.0 beta (link in the top right corner of the home page), actually has round trip AS2 support built in. That means you can create UML from your classes and create classes from your UML! It’s $199 for the pro version, but I’ve never had a problem paying good money for good tools. 30 day trial free.
Read more...I was just poking around the Applications/Utilities folder on my Mini, and saw something called Grapher. Holy cow, this is an awesome program. You can enter in all kinds of 2D and 3D formulas, and see their graphs. Of course I was playing with the 3D stuff. You can change the colors, rendering methods, manipulate them in real time, etc. Pretty damn neat stuff for math geeks.
Read more...Looks like it’s going over pretty well so far…
https://www.actionscript.com/index.php/fw/1/book-review-actionscript-animation/
https://www.ericd.net/2005/11/foe-actionscript-animation-making.inc
https://www.bitchwhocodes.com/archives/2005/10/im_not_a_friend.html
https://www.tink.ws/blog/foundation-actionscript-animation/
Unfortunately, the money for bribing reviewers comes out of my royalties. 😉
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