Over the past month or so I have been assembling a new workshop called Flash 8 Bootcamp, which I will be running in Toronto on Nov 11-12 (this Friday-Saturday) and Los Angeles on Dec 2-3. It is an intensive two day workshop that covers every new feature of Flash 8 in gritty detail. Here’s a look at some of the more interesting bits…
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Flash 8: Webcam Fire
I’ve been doing demoes for upcoming conference sessions and workshops, and really like this one, which generates fire onscreen based on webcam motion. It basically turns you into the Human Torch. I think it’s a nice counterpoint to my Webcam Snowstorm experiment – fire and ice.
Major Flash Player 8 Memory Leak
Or… how to kill a user’s computer with 1 line of ActionScript.
Flash 8: gOOify Mike Chambers, and win!
This is one of my favorite Flash 8 experiments to date. It is an image goo-ifier that works similarly to PowerGoo, or Liquify in PhotoShop. Just to make things interesting, we will be giving away a free copy of gProject to the best gOOified picture of Mike we receive.
gProject for Flash 8
An update to the gProject panel is now available that plays nice with Flash 8. The new version also fixes a few bugs, and takes advantage of some of the new Flash 8 enhancements (such as setIdleTimout).
Flash 8 Source – ColorMatrix
The new ColorMatrixFilter in Flash 8 provides enhanced color manipulation capabilities to developers. If you’ve played around with it, you’ve noticed that the ColorMatrixFilter accepts a 5×4 matrix (20 element Array in Flash). The ColorMatrix class was born a while back out of the need to have a more “friendly” programmatic interface to manipulating these color values.
Flash 8: DevNet Article Series
We’re writing a series of DevNet articles, which will be released over the next couple months, on some of the hottest new features in Flash 8 Professional … The first three, which should be released over the course of the next month include… Here’s a look at varicose-gv8…
Two New-ish Flash Blogs
I just wanted to welcome two good friends from the Flash world to the blogiverse, Hugh “The Fun Guy” Elliot and Ivan “Booth Bunnies” Todorov.