So I’m still in Poland. It’s going pretty well, but I’m already very much looking forward to going home. Given the chance I would gladly go home a few days earlier. As is I still have a week to go, ugh.
My reluctance to enjoy my vacation leaves me feeling pretty shallow. You know, everyone LOVES going on vacation. All I can think about is going home and hanging out with my dog.
Still though, I’ve had some pretty good times. I’ve met a lot of family I didn’t know I had. I took a lot of photos. Oh, I also bought what may very well be the awesomest movie poster ever printed! I’ll try to get a photo up in a post vacation wrap-up.
Oh, I forgot to mention! Since my vacation has started I have been sick 80% of the time and VERY SICK for 20% of the time. I’m only starting to feel better now. I’ve seen the sun for a grand total of 2 minutes (this morning… just before it started raining again) and the temperature has been below 10 celcius every day. Everyone tells me it’s the coldest two weeks they can remember in September. Polish news is predicting the bad weather will lift on the day before my flight back to Toronto… seriously.
So maybe my lack of excitement is at least a little justified.
Things are looking up though, I’m heading off to Warsaw tomorrow. It holds a lot of promise and I’ll have a total of 3 different tour guides (Family!) so maybe that’ll be awesomer!
See you in a week!
P.S
Thanks to Tanya/Radek for help with my rain jacket purchase. I would have been so screwed without that jacket!
The project is called ‘Rose Recommends’. It allows the user to plan out their meals for the week. More importantly the application will show the nutritional information for each food item and the plate as a whole. Now you can finally find out precisely how bad eating a plate full of Cottage Cheese is for you.
I spent a pretty exciting/stressful month working on this app, I hope you like it.
If you have any questions/comments feel free to post them down below.
I’ll try to get some experimental stuff up again soom. I just need to enjoy the summer a bit first. It’s almost gone!
I’ve been saddled with a bunch of major projects (with deadlines!) at work and I just don’t have the strength to code all day and then go home and code some more.
I was working on an interpretation of Grant Skinner’s curved line code which was just giving me headaches. What I have so far is just a clone of what Grant’s done. Except that my math is completely different Not better mind you, just different. I made it a point to code my version without looking at Grant’s source, I did steal his ideas though!
This is an animated picture transition engine written in AS3 which uses as3flickrlib to connect to Flickr to pull images in real time.
I realized that the panels in the previous version were far too small and far too fast. Giving the impression that the panels were just kind of shimmering rather than actually flipping. This version has much larger and slower panels.
I’ve also added title and author support!
Another new feature is skipping images: If you click on the image you can force it to go to the next image without waiting for the timer. I’ve added a new transition style (circular) for these forced swaps.
After the break I’ll show off the working swf, I’ll give a link to the source code and I’ll describe how to use the application.
I’ve also included a bare bones example of my as3flickrlib implementation.
FITC just posted an interview (more of a chat really) with Flash guru extraordinaire Colin Moock and Adobe Flash Player engineer Jim Corbett.
If you’re interested in the internals of the Flash Player engine, or the direction the player is going. I’d suggest checking this out. It won’t win any awards for cinematography but it will give a better idea of what’s going on inside the flash player and Adobe.
First of all, I made it to ten posts! W00, I really wasn’t sure if I’d make it this far.
Recently at work, I had to write an AS3 image viewer with zoom and pan capabilities. It was a lot harder than I had anticipated. I decided to write another (much better) version for the blog. I’m hoping that by releasing this code I’m saving a couple people a lot of grief.
You can zoom in/out with the buttons in the bottom right corner, or by using your mouse wheel (Mouse wheel might not work on a Mac! Let me know if it’s an issue or if you have a solution).
After the break you can see the application in action.
I’ll also try to explain some of the ActionScript parts I found interesting.
Not better mind you, just different. I made it a point to code my version without looking at Grant’s source, I did steal his ideas though!