In Colombia again. Weather is nice but the trip is almost over. On monday i will fly back to London. See you soon.

I was testing the new Flash CS4 prerelease. The IDE looks very tidy and you have several new Tools and export options.  See the screenshots below:

High resolution at Flickr

Hello everybody. I have just moved to London and start to work at a digital agency as Flash developer.
I have already spent my first week in London and live in a nice flat in the north of London with four other mates. Check some Pics at my Flickr account.

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Originally uploaded by wanjahh

Earthquake survived and still in Colombia

I am arrived in Colombia on monday and i am still experiencing a culture shock. It is very nice here, but also very different. The people, the infrastructure, actually everything. But i enjoy it a lot. Everbody is nice here and there are still a lot of things to discover during the next weeks… i will try to keep you up-to-date with pictures and some reports the next days. Read you soon.

Flash Player 10 beta (Astro) is finally available on Adobe Labs. It comes with amazing new filters and effects and GPU rendering that relieves the CPU and hopefully gives a massive performance boost for 3D engines, apps and videos.

Key New Features

3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity.  Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone.  Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.

Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.

Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.

Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.

Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration.  By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.

Related Links:

Read this excellent article about GPU acceleration in Flash Player 10:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/what-does-gpu-acceleration-mean.html

How to compile for Flash Player 10 Astro:
http://etc.joshspoon.com/2008/05/16/how-to-compile-and-examples-for-flash-player-10-or-astro-beta/
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/player.php?id=73

I just wanted to let you know that i´m still alive, even when i didnt post that much the last time.

Currently i am working on a small flash website for a famous colombian drawing artist.  Well, not that famous, but she is my girlfriends mother Hope to finish it until the weekend.

Next week i will start over to Colombia and stay there for the next three weeks. I am looking forward to keep you up to date with some pictures and reports.  See you then…

Since the release of ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 9, memory management (garbage collection) is a very serious topic for Flash developers.

Here is a simple helper class i use in my projects to be always aware of the memory usage of the Flash Player.
Just create a file MemoryControl.as, save it in the root folder of your project and add the following code:

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The developers of Papervision3d have released a final version of Paperworld3d. It combines extended features of Papervision3d and a backend created in cooperation with the developers of the Red5 Server, an open source server software that fulfil functionality of the Flash Media Server, like video/audio streaming and multiuser applications and games. With Paperworld3d you can create all these applications and games with the power of the 3d functionality of Papervision3d.
It is out of question that we can expect a new dimension in Flash games and flash driven websites the next time, full of multiuser features to increase the the user experience and to bind customers to commercial product websites. Amazing!
Visit the official website of Paperworld3d or download the source at http://code.google.com/p/paperworld3d/

Today, Adobe has released the first Flex 3 and Adobe AIR desktop version for Linux. This release is in alpha 3 state and has been delayed, because of a missing major update for Flash Player 9 under Linux. The Alpha is ready to download at Adobe Labs