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.
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.
I don’t want to get in to a massive argument about the iPad / iPhone not supporting Flash, the Nexus One video shows that Flash Player 10.1 is a massive improvement on 10.0 and shows that it doesn’t kill the battery like everyone thought it would. It seems the guys at Adobe are really starting push the Flash Player forward, not only on the Desktop but also Mobile devices. See for yourself.
I’ve had countless talks with Flash being available on smartphones, and as much as I love Flash I have never seen it working on a mobile device sufficiently. My reason for this is that the player would need to be optimised so much that it didn’t kill your battery, well Flash Evangelist Mark Doherty has recently created a video showing the performance of the 10.1Flash Player on the Nexus One, clearly showing that after a 17 minute video the browser has only used 6% of the battery. This is impressive and nice to see hard evidence of.
I do agree though there are certain factors in this such as the screen being on all of the time to watch the video, the screen brightness and the audio volume. Check out the video below, thanks to Mark Doherty and Engadget
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.
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.
There is no hiding that I’m a massive Mac freak, and recently seeing the new shiny 27″ iMac’s arrive in the office Its just made me want one at home even though I don’t need one.
I have an early 2008 MacBook and a late 2008 iMac both with Snow Leapord on since it was released, and ok there was a screw up with the flash player released with it, but that was rectified, however I know I wasn’t the only one to notice how utterly terrible Flash player was in Safari, the tweets were flying about fast. It seems The plugin now functions as a plugin and if Flash falls over Safari looks down on it as if to say “get up you bloated bastard”, which is fair enough, why should the whole Safari app crash just because the Flash Player did.
This was happening often though, and sites were running as if they were set at 12fps. I couldn’t go to a web page on my MacBook without it sounding like it was going to burst into flames from the fans going like mad, and the animation looking like it was streaming on a 28k connection, so I opened activity monitor, only to see:
Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in) %CPU 121.1
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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>
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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