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Run for the hills! Plug-in Media has landed!

Filmed in PLUG-IN-O-VISION, it’s become the living, breathing manifestation of Frankenstinian innovation. Dare you enter and bear witness to Flash wizardry, actionscripting of monstrous proportions, terrifying illustration and insane creativity? Ahem. In other words, after months of development, and nearly 40,000 lines of code (I just counted!) the Plug-in Media site is finally finished! Just […]

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Flash on the Beach in 20 days!

[kml_flashembed movie=”/wp-content/uploads/manual/2006/flashonthebeach.swf” width=”450″ height=”320″ FVERSION=”8″ SCALE=”noborder” /] It’s so exciting to have an international Flash conference, right here in my home town. I’ll be speaking in the morning of day 3, and I’ll be taking you on an exciting quest to find that elusive 3rd dimension! In other words, how do you do cool 3D […]

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Flash bandits take over dSCAPE designers night

Last night was dSCAPE’s designers’ night, this year taken over entirely by Flash bandits! The event was sold out with around 200 attendees, and I was co-presenter along with Tara Solesbury from Wired Sussex. As self-appointed Flash ambassador of Brighton, it was great to catch up with all the local Flash companies and see their […]

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A cacheAsBitmap vs superCacheAsBitmap demo

Here’s another demo of the work we’ve been doing on a custom cacheAsBitmap utility, we’re calling superCacheAsBitmap. The circle in the middle of the demo is made up of 1000 transparent lines, so you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s very slow to render using traditional methods! Click Move Clip to get things started, and you’ll […]

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Installing FAMES – a step by step tutorial

One of our very own FlashCodersBrighton members has just posted an extremely useful FAMES installation guide. Check it out here. [no longer available] FAMES is an completely open-source solution to building Flash swf files, based around the ubiquitous Eclipse IDE. Was it Aral who came up with that acronym?