Well, as some of you may have read in a previous post, I am now the loving father of a little Shih Tzu puppy named King. If you have had a puppy in the past you know it’s no easy task and I don’t have very much time between King running around and trying to balance three projects. I’m just sayin’… 
I’ll post some pics when I take them off my camera for those interested.
Carlos Pinho, a good guy and supporter of my blog here, recently launched his new project entitled The Tech Labs. Some of you may already know about the new site but if you don’t it is a tutorial site that covers AIR, Flash, and Flex. Carlos is offering $100 USD for every tutorial that he accepts and has already posted tutorials from some very well known and great developers. TTL is a great resource and if I can find some time here between projects I hope to add my name to the submission list. Thanks for all your hard work Carlos!
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I don’t normally add sounds to my projects unless the client requests it but when they do I always struggle to cleanly do it. I just had to write a utility that would allow me to do this easily and quickly as sounds are usually an afterthought. After a little bit of programming and scouring the internet for examples, the SoundManager was born. Read more »
As promised, I’ve updated all of the pertinent AS3 classes that I’ve written and posted here with their AS3 HTML documentations. It should be a little easier now to get an idea of what you can do with the class before downloading it. I apologize for not doing this sooner but as I posted yesterday I didn’t realize ZenDoc allowed AS3 documentation now.
I realize it has been just over two weeks since I’ve posted anything here so I figured I’d let everyone know why. Directly after finishing up the project that I referred to in a couple of my other posts I jumped into another one using Papervision3D. It hasn’t been easy for me since I am not super familiar with the API and the lack of documentation (I’m looking at you, John Lindquist :P) hasn’t made it any easier. I’m not going to put a timeframe on when I will complete it and I know there are projects on the horizon so all I can say is I just don’t know when I’ll have time to post stuff up. I did manage to create a class today that I am using in the project which I do plan to release that has to do with gauging mouse inactivity but I want to polish it up before I post it so it may still take a bit.
On top of all of this, Jessica and I have been looking to expand our family. No, not in that way, but a puppy. We’re looking to purchase a Shih Tzu and we have found a potential candidate/breeder so we are going to visit on Saturday and take a look. If all goes well, we’ll have a little guy named Kingston running around the house in about three weeks.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know I’m alive still.
I’m still weeding my way through the project I mentioned in my other post and trying to get things wrapped up. I’ve got another two weeks on it ruling my life so until then you probably won’t see much going up here. I do however want to encourage people to not just vote on the topics I added in the Skribit widget but also post some new ones for me to consider writing about here. I’d love to see what you want to see more of on the blog.
I do want to mention that I’ve begun (in the very spare moments that I have during this project) editing a new theme for the blog because there have just been too many blogs popping up with this theme. I made a lot of small changes here and there to this theme, though, so I have to make sure I port everything over properly. Look for that to pop-up in the future as well.
I’ve recently been very busy with client work that is taking up all of my time (and if I’m not working on it, I’m spending my free time brainstorming it) so I’ve had very little time to dedicate to anything else. I did, however, manage to add a Skribit widget to the sidebar. Read more »
As you can see, I’ve added sponsors to the right hand sidebar. Not only did I pick sites that I think are actually worth signing up for, but if you sign up by clicking one of those you’re helping the site so please do if you have some free time. It’s well worth signing up with those sites as they have some great source files as well as components. It will help people like yourself who come here to try and learn to look at other’s source files. Plus, in the case of FlashDen, the source files are VERY cheap and well worth the money. Have fun!
I’ve updated the Extend links in the right sidebar to include a bunch of engines you can use to extend Flash’s capabilities. Stuff that’s been around for a while like 3D engines as well as some of the newer physics engines that are coming out. This will also help me in the future to keep track of all these things as I start to delve into them.
I’ve also updated the Downloads section with my latest FDT3 preferences in anticipation of some upcoming posts this week. Enjoy!
Well, today I am back at the house from FiTC (actually got home last night) and I just wanted to talk about some of the stuff I saw when I was there. As usual, the conference was awesome and inspirational so I just wanted to quickly go through a couple of the cool presentations. Read more »
