Archive for 'Design and Creativity'
Rawr! FlexGrowl Component Available
Posted on04. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
Want to growl in your Flex apps? Try this junk. FlexGrowl is a component that allows you to create growl-like notifications in your Flex apps
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HydraMVC 0.1.3 Released
Posted on01. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
…And it seems to be the magic number for now. I’ve been using this version for a while and it seems stable and complete enough to actually use f’real. If you don’t know what it is, click here to read about it and get it. Besides all the obvious goals for HydraMVC (read about them [...]
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AdeptivMVC
Posted on03. Mar, 2009 by lukesh.
Basically, you know those times where if you have to trip over that creaky stair *one more time* you’re going to go totally ape and remodel the entire downstairs? That’s exactly what happened.
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Aurora Borealis in ActionScript
Posted on01. Dec, 2008 by lukesh.
This weekend I threw together an algo to generate Aurora for a holiday ecard. I was really happy with the outcome. You can see the card here.
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Zoning into Productivity
Posted on21. Oct, 2008 by lukesh.
Just a quick observation of how important it is to me that in order to achieve and maintain focus, I need to reduce my “sphere of awareness” as small as possible. I picture an imaginary bubble around me, and whether I like it or not, my mind is background-monitoring everything within that bubble. The larger [...]
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In defense of AS3
Posted on16. Jul, 2008 by lukesh.
As someone who has worked with Flash since FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia, and as someone with both a design / animation and programming background, I agree with Adobe’s decision to go with a more structured implementation of ActionScript in Flash with AS3. I believe it is a strategic move to position Flash as a [...]
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Network Drives on Mac OSX
Posted on12. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
A few people here have only recently switched to Mac as their primary computing platform. People generally find most things to be easier and more pleasant to use on a Mac. However, there is frequently a point of confusion for a Windows user when they try to find their “network drives,” or mapped network shares [...]
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Mediator strategy in PureMVC
Posted on12. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
If you aren’t using an MVC framework like Cairngorm, Model-Glue, Guasax, or PureMVC for your Flex development, you really should think about starting. Our adoption of PureMVC at andCulture has allowed us to structure our ideas around a concrete paradigm and move on to arguing about more important things. I’ve implemented PureMVC in both Flash [...]
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Flash Export to Video Framerate Woes
Posted on08. Apr, 2008 by lukesh.
Ok, you’ve created a 30,000-frame animation that needs to be deployed to the web as an animation and to DVD as a movie. (Don’t judge me. Seriously.) Anyway, you’ve done this, and you’ve got all your scenes exported and whatever and the website looks great. On to the DVD production. Let’s see, just export an [...]
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In Blue…
Posted on06. Dec, 2007 by lukesh.
Ok, I guess I don’t need to post *every* version, but this one’s really nice. Check it out.
