Recently I wrote a review of Papervision3D Essentials because of PACKT Publishings kindness I managed to organized a Papervision3D Essentials e-book giveaway on my blog. What I have to do to receive a free copy of Papervision3D Essentials e-book? Just leave a comment! That’s all you need to do, next Monday (11-01-10) I will draw two people from the comments that will receive a copy of the e-book. If you want to know more about [...]

It’s always hard to set the hourly rate for a project because there are many factors to see through, for example there are demographic or skill set issues. Most of you doesn’t leave in the US so please recalculate your hourly rate, if you think the additional factors are important please include them in the comments. If you have any ideas or question please drop a comment ;)

Some of you may wonder how to easily change the color of a sprite, the answer is fairly simply use ColorTransform class. While developing stock applications or websites you may run into this kind of problem. Stock files always have to be customizable, most of them are XML driven, those websites give a user (buyer of website/app) ability to quickly change the color of (almost) any object in the website. This short tutorial explains how [...]

Adobe announced that there will be no public beta of Flash CS5 Professional, this news was announced the same day that Lee Brimelow has posted his great video showing the sneak peak of Flash CS5 (watch it here) . This is a sad news to many of us, I personally was looking forward to this. The good part is that the final version of Adobes best product will be released earlier. Lee Brimelow on his [...]

Today Lee Brimelow has posted new video which shows the most important features of Flash CS5 Professional. You can watch the video on gotoAndLearn.com This material is over 27 minutes long, it was really fun to watch because for me it was a dream come true (Thanks Adobe). I was so happy when I saw those new features I wanted to dance around the room :P Adobe really started to listen to the community! Below [...]

Few months back I have received a copy of Papervision3D Essentials from PACKT Publishing . I didn’t have time to read it until now, so here are my thoughts on this wonderful book (for those of you who don’t know what Pv3D is visit their google code site). First of all I have to say I was surprised how great this book is, I had some experience with Papervision3D few months earlier. I just wanted [...]

I personally never use Button symbol when creating a button, I always use MovieClip or Sprites and then I add to it button functionality. For example the simplest button I can think of is a green rectangle. We can make this kind of button very easily bellow I show you how: Draw the green rectangle, you can do this either on the time line or using ActionScript, I will do this with ActionScript (if you [...]

Today I accidentally run into new (for me) Tweening engine for AS 3.0, It’s called Tweensy. For my daily tweening I personally use Tweener becuase it’s free, for example when you use TweenMax (which is great) you have to buy a license to use it commercially. Tweensy is a free library, and it can be uses freely in commercial projects. Here is a short description of Tweensy: Tweensy is an extremely efficient Actionscript 3 property [...]

It have been some time from my last post, I will try to write more often, sorry guys. Below I post few interesting news I found in the couple of last days: Audio Interview: Adobe’s Justin Everett-Church Discusses SEO and Flash Content I really advice for any developer to listen to this, but for those of you who are interested in Flash and SEO it’s a must listen pod cast! You can learn allot from [...]

Just came across really cool website it’s called “Clients from hell” it’s a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers and developers really fun to read, I have also some client based stories I am going to post there for others as a warning ;)