In the weeks before my workshop at Multi-mania (getting up to speed with native 3D) I spend a lot of time experimenting with some new api's. One thing that I kinda needed from the start is a decent rotation class to rotate an object in 3D (at runtime). So I ...

I was looking for a way to set parameters more quickly to newly added childs and I found out something interesting. (Note that this will not result in faster code execution, it's merely to type less :-). I did some testing for the performance, check it out at the bottom ...

You all probably use facebook. One of the features is that you can tag people in your photos. On roll over a small popup is shown with the name of your contact. Recently I was giving a course about dreamweaver CS4 and upon playing around with the (spry) tooltips and the ...

Just a little thing I found out today using Coldfusion 9 new ORM feature. Say you have a login system based on a user table, this can easily be done with orm. You just create a cfc where you define your database fileds as parameters and call the necessary orm ...

I developed a small flash component that keeps track of all the notifications (using my simple facade) that are send within your flash application. It will show you in a log format which notifications have been sent and also gives you an overview of which class is connected to ...

With the introduction of actionscript 3, one of the classes that came with a lot of new features is the Textfield class. To be more specific, we now have access to more information about the textfields content such as character, paragraphs and line metrics. The goal in this blog post ...

Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn't find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that ...

So yesterday I finally took the time to do my recertification for Flash CS4 (93%) and I must say I finished with mixed feelings. Sure I was happy that I now can finally put that certified expert/instructor logo on my site but the exam experience itself was a little bit ...

In one of our latest project we wanted to use some sort of an event system that would make it possible for components to dispatch events to each other even though they are not aware of each other or are not in the same displaylist structure. In that last example ...

I started off really good last year with my review of my trip to FOTB 2008. But as usual I kinda got lost in the work and before I knew that review would be so outdated that you could already start counting down to the next FOTB. But not this ...