Open source flash presentation at FITO

May 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in AS2, BackSpace Blabber, Industry, Open Source

Over a year ago I did a presentation at FITO on Open Source Flash on how to build rss/rdf/xml applications. I stumbled upon this video of my presentation on Google video, and then found out it has been posted on many other blogs. I thought it may be of interest to some of you. Enjoy!

Brendan Sera-Shriar presents: Open source flash - rss/rdf/xml - 27 min - Feb 28, 2007
FlashInTO - www.flashinto.com

Flash Kaleidescope from zeefrank.com

May 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in AS3

zeefrank kaleidescope
Here’s another really neat Flash toy from www.zeefrank.com

http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

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WordPress2.5 workshop @ RMI

May 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Open Source, php


Our very own Brendan Sera-Shriar, Director of BackSpaceStudios, has been asked by RMI (Rich Media Institute) to instruct a full day workshop on WordPress design and development.

The workshop will be a full day of WordPress2.5, focused on design and development. We’ll cover the essentials of setup, installation, and management. We’ll learn how to build custom themes using CSS, PHP, and image architecture. We’ll also jump into custom code and template files, best practices for design and management, integrating Flash, and how to build and install WP and custom plug-ins.

About The Rich Media Institute:
The Rich Media Institute (http://www.richmediainstitute.com) is a training center for designers, developers, marketers and artists working in the rich media industry. The RMI conducts training sessions in digital media design and technology, and organizes for-artists-by-artists workshops, providing training and inspiration for individuals engaged in culturally and technologically-relevant projects.

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3D engine from nulldesign

May 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in AS3, Papervision

Lars Gerckens, a freelance Flash developer and the man behind NULLDESIGN, has always been someone I’ve looked up to when it comes to experimental Flash. I have been following his blog for a while now and he has always been an inspiration for some of my own experimental work. A good friend or mine and Technical Director of BackSpaceStudios has been experimenting with PV3 recently and has begun his own open source project called PV3World.

I’ve been so busy lately experimenting with red5, that I’ve falling a bit out of the Flash 3D loop, so when Geoff passed a long a few files from NULLDESIGN I was amazed to see the work that Lars has been doing building his own 3D engine!

Ok, enough of the banter on to the examples…

Here are 6, of the many, cool examples that Lars has been working on using his 3D engine. Enjoy!

3D Ribbon3D Particle Galaxy

Light TestMeshes

Cube2Cube1

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