This was a long hard learning curve.

http://lab.think-a-doo.net/CMS/PENS -- back end
http://lab.think-a-doo.net/RIACatalog/Main.html -- front end

We wrote the whole front-end in pure AS3 and connect to Drupal 6.15 through the new AMFPHP 1.9 server.

Looking at the performance, it was well worth the effort.

Drupal can change everything you see on the screen, the Backgrounds, the Product info and images, the Logo associated with the product. Taxonomy is used to create the category menus too.

The whole site is maintained by Drupal.
The application is designed to run in browser full screen mode.

Flash AMF PHP Drupal from think-a-doo on Vimeo.

A presentation of Flash, Flex, AIR integration to Drupal through AMFPHP

If you have ever wondered about Drupal, Flash, AIR and Flex integration, pop along to the Jozi 3 March Drupal Meetup. I am presenting 3 scenarios:

1. Flash content in Drupal
2. Flash content in Drupal with Drupal Services and AMFPHP integration.
3. Flash and Flex front-ends to Drupal with Drupal Services and AMFPHP integration.

@ The Campus (Le Mans Building 57 Sloane Street Bryanston as usual the event will start promptly at 18h30 on Wednesday the 3rd March).

Feel free to contact me: andre.n.venter@gmail.com

http://vimeo.com/9935202
http://drupal.co.za/content/jozi-3-march-meetup

The web has waited long enough. It’s time for professional quality alternatives to the same old fonts. It’s time for Web FontFonts.

Introducing Web FontFonts:

For nearly 15 years, web designers had two frustrating choices when it came to type on the web: use one of the few “web safe” fonts preinstalled on major operating systems, or substitute text with images and Flash/JavaScript® hacks. Not anymore. Recent developments in web standards and font formats make it possible to render HTML text in typefaces other than the same old default fonts. Today, FSI FontShop® International is leading the charge to offer fonts designed specifically for web use. More than 30 of the most successful FontFont families are now available as Web FontFonts®, including FF DIN®, FF Meta®, FF Dax®, and FF Kievit®.

Read more...
http://www.fontshop.com/blog/?cat=80&utm_source=NewsletterFeb2410&utm_me...

on behalf of Jan Erasmus
http://cybergraphics.bz/

http://mashable.com/2010/02/26/html5-flash-poll/?utm_source=feedburner&u...

Week 1:
- Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
- WINNER: Firefox (Firefox), 4600 votes (Chrome (Chrome): 3310 votes, Tie: 911 votes)

Week 2:
- Tumblr vs. Posterous
- WINNER: Tumblr (Tumblr), 1809 votes (Posterous (Posterous): 1496 votes, Tie: 256 votes)

Week 3:
- Pandora vs. Last.fm
- WINNER: Last.fm, 1187 votes (Pandora (Pandora): 1156 votes, Tie: 122 votes)

Week 4:
- Twitter vs. Facebook

I was the chairperson for this summit.

The topics for first day were:

The Transformational Nature of Knowledge & Wisdom.
Background to connectivity in South Africa and Africa Issues and Solutions
Government challenges around the arena of KM and ICT
Building an Intranet community within your organization to encourage use by staff - How to enable people to use portals?
The use of the intranet to retain corporate knowledge
Do you need Technology or do you need Information? An information perspective
How the Intranet can be optimised to support knowledge management initiatives if you make changes to the existing content, information architecture and extend the Intranet platform you are currently using.

The topics for second day were:

Web 2.0 & Intranet 2.0 a marriage made in heaven for revolutionary (innovative) enterprise knowledge management: Critical look at the transformation of Intranet in web 2.0 age and its impact on knowledge management.
5 Simple Rules to Enhancing Knowledge Management on your Intranet.
The art and science of customer experience management - KM for 2010.
“Portals - Workplace of the Future?”
Governments future perspective and direction on Knowledge Management Gov 2.0 and the evolution of the information society and knowledge economy.
Strategy, Risk Management, Knowledge Management, Innovation, Learning, Insight and other key drivers of Enterprise Excellence.

Everyone who attended reported a delightful experience.

haXe (pronounced as hex) is an open source programming language.

While most other languages are bound to their own platform (Java to the JVM, C# to .Net, ActionScript to the Flash Player), haXe is a multiplatform language.

http://haxe.org/doc/targets/flash

You can compile a haXe program to a .swf file. haXe can compile for Flash Players 6 to 10, with either "old" Flash<8 API or newest AS3/Flash9+ API. haXe offers very good performance and language features to develop Flash content.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201002/021510Fla...
Close to 70 Industry Leaders Collaborate Toward Open Mobile Ecosystem

The Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR is a runtime environment for developing rich Internet applications. These applications can be deployed as a desktop applications. AIR applications can operate offline and can take advantage of additional functionality when connected to the Internet.

Getting Started

The Adobe AIR Page - adobe.com

Adobe AIR Language Reference for HTML Developers - adobe.com

Danny Kopping teamed up with Ariel Sommeria-Klein to bring AMFPHP to stable and current version 1.9. http://ria-coder.com/blog/amfphp-is-back/

This is a BIG day for Flash and Flex coders alike. Finally we are back on track, with a light weight efficient open-source solution for remoting using the AMF protocol with PHP applications.

I am happy to report it works for Drupal 6.15 and the Drupal AMFPHP 6.x-1.0-beta1 module.

Big Thank you to Danny and Ariel for their efforts!

Judging by the twitter responses #amfphp - this release and their future plans will rock the boat for "bigger" players in the Flash Platform AMF Remoting market. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23amfphp

It's wonderful to see how unbridled enthusiasm can trump commercial interests.

With AMFPHP 2.0 not far off and AMFPHP Genie in the wings (http://dannykopping.co.za/amfphp-genie/), Danny and Ariel are well placed to offer a better solution than the manufacturers.

All this is very impressive, but what is even better (for me) is that Danny is a think-a-doo member.
http://think-a-doo.ning.com/profile/DannyKopping

Way to go Danny! You are an inspiration to all of us.

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2008/10/as3-youtube.html

The AS3 API allows users to control the YouTube video players by loading the player into a Flash application and making calls via ActionScript to the player's public API. Calls can be made to play, pause, seek to a certain time in a video, set the volume, mute the player, and other useful functions. The ActionScript API is automatically activated when the player is loaded into another SWF.

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Content_Management/

It's interesting how everyone and his dog claims to have built a CMS when most of the scripts are just badly implemented CRUD apps with really awful HTML interfaces.

I've always worked in the Digital Boutique model.

I recently met a small team who work well together and show real potential. Not only do they understand communication and brand as the core objectives of the outcomes they create, they all seem to really enjoy working together.

That is rare indeed.

In my experience, it is really difficult to set up a group of equally yoked "family" members who do exceptional work together.

I hope you are fortunate enough to have such an experience...

If you haven’t heard about Robert Penner’s AS3 Signals (http://wiki.github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals/) yet, you’re missing out. After John Lindquist’s video tutorial (http://pv3d.org/2010/01/21/as3-signals-tutorial/). I’m going to devote some time to it.

http://cybergraphics.bz/

WOW - What a lovely way to start the year. Jan Erasmus never ceases to amaze me!

Check out his wild and wonderful "Pixeluxe" font family today! http://cybergraphics.bz/

I have just started to check out MODx as a CMS for Flex or Flash.
What is promising is the MODx "Ditto" snippet, which allows complex custom queries to the CMS

Here is the beginning...

http://get.adobe.com/air/
Download the attached AIR file (see ModXLinkup.air_.zip attachment to this article)
Run the AIR app and compare to the MODx page below:
http://lab.think-a-doo.net/modx/index.php?id=2

http://www.ustream.tv/

Overview

Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Click here to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting.

The Tamarin project, which is based on code contributed from Adobe, is designed to implement an open engine for ActionScript. Tamarin will be used by Mozilla within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla's free Web browser, as well as within the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player. Developers interested in working on Tamarin code in the Mozilla CVS repository via the project page located at www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/.

http://www.geekchix.org/blog/2010/01/03/a-collection-of-printable-sketch...

Check out the golfzon-flash-library http://code.google.com/p/golfzon-flash-library/. What a mammoth task! Posted via email from thinkadoo's posterous

think-a-doo now has a shared Actionscript 3 (AS3) Class Library on http://code.google.com/p/thinkadoo/

To contribute please contact, Andre: andre.n.venter@gmail.com

3D Engines

* Papervision3D
http://blog.papervision3d.org/
* Away 3D
http://www.away3d.com/
* Sandy 3D
http://www.flashsandy.org/
* Alternativa Platform
http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/
* FIVe3D
http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/
* WireEngine3D (we3d) - A lightweight and fast 3D Engine for Flash 8/9.
http://osflash.org/we3d/
* Sharikura
http://temp.roxik.com/datas/physics/
* Infinity3d - In Russian
http://www.infinity3d-engine.com

The Button Class (object) used here is an asset in a .SWC exported from Flash.


package {

import flash.display.Sprite;

[SWF(width='1280', height='800', backgroundColor='#000000', framerate='24')]

public class DisplayListExperiments extends Sprite
{
private var myGrid:Sprite;
private var buttons:Array

public function DisplayListExperiments()
{
var buttons:Array = new Array();
var myGrid:Sprite = new Sprite();

for (var i:int = 0; i < 20; i++) {
buttons[i] = new Button();
buttons[i].x = Math.floor(Math.random( )*1280);