By Brendon Smith on December 19, 2009
Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C (which [...]
Posted in 3d, Adobe, Flash, i-create, Linux, Open Source | Tagged 3d, ActionScript, Adobe, Alchemy, as3, Games, Technology/Internet
By Brendon Smith on October 4, 2009
What Kuler-Splash does: Click the button in the far right of the screen it looks like an on button. Then select a style then search for a color or tag name like green or hot. Then select a color scheme when finished it will automatically generate your art unless you are using Virtual [...]
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, art, i-create | Tagged ActionScript, Flash, Flash Develop, kuler
By Brendon Smith on June 6, 2009
Technologically agnostic and liking it. When it comes to new technologies many come and go so it can be a challenge to see which ones really take root. People love to talk about open source technology and I myself love open technology because it encourages developers like myself to play with whatever I [...]
Posted in .net, ActionScript, Adobe, C#, i-create, Silverlight | Tagged ActionScript, art, C#, Flash Develop, Open Source, Silverlight
By Brendon Smith on November 27, 2008
The future of web applications lies in the hands of rich internet application developers. The two main platforms of the future will be Adobe Flash/Flex/Air and Silverlight. This should be extremely apparent to most web developers now. Web applications have been evolving more and more to act like desktop applications. In web [...]
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flex, i-create | Tagged Adobe, Nicolas Cannasse, RIA, Ubuntu, Web applications
By Brendon Smith on April 26, 2007
Adobe announced today it has plans to make Flex open source. This will of course help ensure Adobe wins the RIA platform race. M$ might make silverlight an open source project but I strongly doubt it (they will probably announce how Zunes can now play pac-man). They have an announcement coming out at MIX. Adobe already has all the developer tools that integrate well together. Flex since its release has seen slow adoption. Now that it is open source it will be sure to be popping up all over the web. This is great because anyone who has studied or used flex knows it is capable of making extremely intuitive applications that is simply unmatched in any other platform on the web!
Adobe Announces Flex Going Open Source
Open Flex Source Files
Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex, Open Source | Tagged ActionScript, Flash, Flex
Recent Comments