AS3

Flash AS3 Light Painting

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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

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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

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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.

Flash Speed Optimization

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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

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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)

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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.

short – bringing back sweet old AS2 syntax to AS3

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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 [...]

Essential Classes for Flash Developers

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If you’ve been developing microsites in Flash, chances are, you’ve probably met the same problems that I did. I’ve listed down some of the classes that have really helped me in my work with a short description, and some pros and cons.