I was digging in my archives when I came across this POC (Proof of Concept) I did last year …

It would make for a nice simple Flash Player 8 performance test … basically it just reads an XML file containing 10,000 (or more) “nodes” with random x,y coorindates and then populates that list of nodes using 3 different methods … there are 2 passes, one to draw the points and a 2nd pass to colorize them based on xml attributes (this was an explicit requirement for the POC) … the goal is to do it in the fastest way possible (without any preprocessing).

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The April issue of MX developer’s journal is out … download the pdf by clicking on the big fat icon below:

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I think it’s kind of neat seeing animation outside the flash realm every once in a while … hence my post … Mural sized “lenticulars”:

“Rufus Butler Seder creates motion pictures on a grand scale using no electricity, moving parts, or special lighting. After some experiment he developed an 8′ square, lens-ribbed glass tile that was to form the building block for his dream come true. He called it a Lifetile.”

http://www.eyethinkinc.com/lifetiles/lifetiles_videos.html

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I’ve gotten some feedback and cleaned it up a bit. It’s still a work in progress and hopefully it will continually evolve.

Keep the entry below bookmarked or drop me an email at: flashlite@scottjanousek.com if you’d like to keep up to date on it’s progress.

Download:

Flashlite 1.1 Reference Guide

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I’ve been a big fan of BlueSkyNorth’s work since MAX last year when I first got my taste for FlashLite at one of their hands on seminars. They were really early adopters.

Anyways, I just surfed their redesigned site and noticed:

1.) a new tool announced tool called SWF2SIS. Looks like another packager tool.

2.) a practical flashlite application called Medic Alert … something that I almost built myself a while back.

All of it great stuff if you’re into flashlite … and I’m sure the guys at BSKY won’t mind the publicity.

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If you’re like me you’re likely going back and forth between the luxury of AS2 and the prehistoric FlashLite 1.1 syntax (aka Flash 4) … which can be a pain … but the price you pay for early adoption.

Anyways, I put together a short reference guide (aka a “onesheet”) that attempts to consolidate a lot of material that is floating around into one document … keyword is “attempts”. There is quite a bit of material and more and more everyday.

The document includes syntax, tips, best practices, urls, etc. I tried to fit as many goodies as I could into a 2 page document …

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If you liked hapland … I just came across hapland 2. Enjoy.

-sj

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“Verizon new Fiber Optic Internet service: Verizon began rolling out a new Internet service in Southeastern Pennsylvania, called FiOS.

This test market is one of the first places to use a new service that offers Fiber Optic connections directly into the home, capable of incredible bandwidth, and hopefully other areas of the East Coast will be next. Starting at $35/mo for a FiOS Internet connection of 5 Mbps download with 2 Mbps upload, service plans range up to 30 Mbps download with 5 Mbps upload for $200/mo.”

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At the keynote at FITC 2005, there was some talk about library panel improvements in the next release of FMX.

One improvement slated (more like a fix) was the ability to access multiple library panels from a simple dropdown menu within a single core library panel … of course, you’ll still be able to use the old way of doing things (managing multiple lib panels)…

This is a perfect example of streamlining and managing assets more efficiently within the library … something I sometimes spend a lot of time on during development.

Anyways …

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I know these articles have already been blogged on mxna by marco, but I figured I’d repost them since that post had broken links … and Bill Perry is super busy these days.

• NYC Traffic: Best Practices for Building Flash Lite Dynamic Content
• Porting Flash Animation to Mobile Phones with Flash Lite
• The killersound Technique: Optimizing Digital Audio for Flash Lite

Enjoy.

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