November 29, 2005 | The folks who created Delicious Library offer some great advice on smart coding. My favorite is item #1: think first, then think some more. (link) (#)
November 29, 2005 | Apparently just the fact they work for Pixar
November 29, 2005 | Satori Canton at ActionScript.com was experimenting with some of the new expressiveness features in Flash 8 by creating scriptable image transitions. One thing led to another and voila, a downloadable component for us to use! Nice. (link) (#)
November 17, 2005 | FMS2, the replacement to the Flash Communication Server, is finally shipping and available for order. Starting saving up your loose change, it's not cheap. Stefan Richter has more info. (link) (#)
November 17, 2005 | Hmm, the title of this article seems a bit much when you consider that Pixar's success is due in large part to their "Story is king" creedo, but there are some good tips here on building your own low-budget animation studio. (link) (#)
November 17, 2005 | As longtime fan of Steve Jobs' presentation style (I love to watch the videos of his Macworld keynotes) I really appreciate this look into the style differences between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. (link) (#)
November 17, 2005 | Here's a good primer on using vectors and math in Actionscript animations. This is from the same person who gave us this nice set of tile-based flash game tutorials. (link) (#)
November 16, 2005 | This a free, open-source set of tools for scriptwriters that also offers budgeting and breakdown tools for pre-production planning. (link) (#)
November 8, 2005 | Justin Everett Church gives a great example of using Flash 8 to create customized Yahoo maps that match the design of your site or application. The new beta of Yahoo maps, btw, is a Flex application. There's also a developer page available with info on building apps on top of their API. (link) (#)
November 7, 2005 | New features in the next generation of action script will give developers "xPath like" functionality for working with XML documents. (link) (#)
November 2, 2005 | Hmm. Haven't checked this out yet, but it might be worth a look if you need to manage multiple color profiles and gammas on your monitor. (link) (#)
November 1, 2005 | And here I was using acutal photos of wood to generate wood textures all these years. With the new Perlin noise generator in Flash 8, even dynamically generated wood grain texture is possible. (link) (#)
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