Just pushed a new repo on Github. This one’s a boilerplate for a Facebook App. Read the README for more details. Do let me know how I can make this better! https://github.com/EdwinToh/Facebook-App-Boilerplate
Flash
Flash AS3 Light Painting
Just created my first Github Public repo and did an initial commit. Take a look here: https://github.com/EdwinToh/LightPainter LightPainter is an app that allows you to create your own light painting effects with your web cam. It’s an initial commit so documentation and comments are scarce and unorganized. Have fun painting!
Nokia Black Box Installation
I built a mini installation in a week with my new developer partner – Noel Chan and colleague Brian Law, and if you’re interested to check it out, do go down to the Nokia Black Box tomorrow. It will be at 30 Maxwell Road and is open from 10am to 10pm. The installation was built [...]
First FWA Win: Devil Yogurt
I can’t believe I forgot to post news of my first ever FWA win. Winning an FWA has always been my dream and thanks to the great work of my colleagues at Kinetic Singapore, we won an FWA for DevilYogurt.com. Check it out if you have the time, and enjoy creating your own Devil Yogurt.
Cooties Alternatives: HTML5 & CSS3 Timeline Editors
Again, something that slipped through my rader, it turns out that Cooties isn’t the only Timeline Editor for HTML5 & CSS3 animations. Adobe is working on EDGE, a tool that lets you convert .fla files to .html. Check out the video of the tool in action: There’s also another application that is already released for [...]
Flash Speed Optimization
Just a quick share: http://gskinner.com/talks/quick/ Been trying to optimize one of my old Flash files recently and I found these wonderful slides by Grant Skinner. The part that benefited me greatly is the “activate 2.5D” hack. I never knew this hack existed and am still bewildered by the fact that it greatly improves the performance [...]
Showcase: Devil Yogurt & His Wicked Comrades
Here’s my latest project, a yogurt chain in Singapore. I’m the main Flash and backend developer for this. Enjoy!
http://www.devilyogurt.com
Tutorial: Flash and WordPress (Part 1)
Over the 3 years that I have spent developing Flash websites, dynamic data is almost always a must. Thus, I have had to create custom XMLs and basic Content Management Systems to let my clients to update their websites themselves. But, creating a custom CMS each time is well, time consuming, especially systems where shopping carts and image galleries are involved.
I’m sure many other Flash developers out there have had the same problem, hence, I’ve started a mini project to find a way to use the excellent WordPress CMS as the backend to power Flash content.
Opening a ColorBox in Flash
The update to my previous method to “Opening a Thickbox in iFrame” is finally here.
short – bringing back sweet old AS2 syntax to AS3
A new AS3 framework has been released by Arul @ Luracast. Do check it out at http://code.google.com/p/short/. I’m pretty excited about it because of 2 things. Firstly, it’s the first framework released by someone based in Singapore. Secondly, I share the same frustration as the creator – a simple getURL that used to be so [...]