I would like to thank the people at .net magazine and Christian Hall for getting in touch with me. Myself and Magomed Dovjenko were featured in the showcase section of the magazine for Magomed’s Portfolio site which can be seen here. There are some amazing projects in the showcase section so I feel very honoured that we made it.
As I said in my last post, I got quite a few book for christmas so I thought I would take a moment to post a picture of my current collection as it stands at the moment. And I’ve just ordered a couple of AIR books as well. I have no idea why but I’m becoming a book worm, its a pity I wasn’t like this at school, sigh!
If anyone can recommend any other good books please feel free to do so, if it’s developer or design related.
I got a log of books for christmas, and I haven’t had chance to read any of them, until last week when I picked up one that I’ve been wanting to read ever since I saw it on Amazon, it’s a book called Papervision3D Essentials written by Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder
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I’ve been busy working on a few projects lately, which has meant that it’s been very difficult to find time to post anything up here, but I just wanted to take the chance to announce the new site launch for Magomed Dovjenko, this guy is a 16 year old Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in Germany. Apart from going to school he also freelances for some of the world’s biggest brands such as Nike, Adidas, Ecko Unltd, Hennessy Ryz Shoes, and many more he has also just featured on one of Germany’s biggest talk shoes called TV Total which you can see here.
Magomed approached me to work on his new portfolio to which I jumped at the chance, I think his work speaks for itself. I would just like to say thank you to Magomed for the chance to work on such a creative project, this guy is shit hot with his feet firmly on the ground. Definitely one to watch in the near future.
Just before christmas I was approached to complete a freelance project for an agency called Denvir, they wanted to create a viral for Burns Day which is on the 25th of January. I was provided with the designs and was left to create the project on my own. On monday I completed the project, please feel free to have a look here, and be sure to send it on to your friends.
A while a go, I saw Lee Brimelow’s post about a dedicated Flash and Flex Developers Magazine (FFDmag). So i instantly jumped on bored and subscribed. The magazine was more than useful and provided a decent read on the train to work most mornings. It seemed to drop off, and my subscription was no longer fulfilled, so I wondered what had happened to it. After two seconds on Google I came across the FFDmag site and realised they sent everything digital, and best of all free!
I personally think this is a must for anyone looking for tips and tricks, or for anyone to try and get in to Actionscript 3. The magazine seems to hit all levels, with handy code panels and also downloadable content to go with the magazine.
Although this makes it harder for me to read on the train in the morning flicking through pages on my iPhone, zooming in, then out, then in again. I can’t recommend it enough, and i’d like to give a big shout out to everyone in the FFDmag team for making this magazine in the first place, and also for taking it further in to the digital age to try and capture a wider audience.
Head over to http://www.ffdmag.com/ to get the mag.
Recently, i’ve become infuriated with Flash and the way it treats HTML text, especially while working on projects that have needed to be put in to a Tridian system ( Anyone who does this, will understand my hatred for it. ). One of the things that got me annoyed for a whole day was the fact that when any XML was uploaded to Tridian it decided to completely collapse all of the white space within the file. So I did some digging around and thought how it’s acting the same way that ‘condenseWhite’ does in flash. Basically what was happens is that the tag within any Node gets treated as:
<p>This is a paragraph</p> <p>This is a new paragraph</p>
Where as it should be treated, or at least it is in HTML as:
<p>This is a paragraph</p> <p>This is a new paragraph</p>
Walking in to the office today, I was informed of a new Actionscript search engine called Hexosearch, so I thought I would take a look. Its actually quite impressive and should be in everyone’s favourites. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve spent hours on google trawling through forums that are 3 years old and by the time I get to the end doesn’t answer the question I wanted to know the answer to. I recommend everyone go check it out…
Ok, so this year will be my first time at Flash on the Beach in Brighton. It’s going to be good seeing old and new friends that I talk to in the Flash community.
I hope to meet many new people there, come say hi.
Big up Brighton!!
Gareth Parker (Garfty) is a Flash Designer / Developer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Focusing mainly on animation and Actionscript projects.
Email: hello@garethparker.co.uk
Website: www.garethparker.co.uk
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