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Enough buzzwords for you? I wanted to use BlazeDS, but the buzzword overlords were not that kind with me Just good ol’ E4X.

Two years ago we (nascom) made the same thing for club vaio. Unfortunately the old version is gone . It was as2 and some “custom 3d” (lol). Customized snowflakes has been done before by others (can’t find links), Seb Lee Delisle made a more realistic snowfall a few weeks back (thumbsup), but this project still has it’s merits The project was sold, with the premise of reskinning the old app, but it quickly became apparent that rebuilding from scratch using a more modern approach would be faster. (How things change in just two years!? ) Using Flex and Cairngorm made the development extremely rapid and enjoyable. I spent 6-7 working days on this. I was encouraged to go for papervision (and tweener) by Lee Brimelow’s papervision3d experiments, mainly I was impressed with how he could achieve such a nice effect with so little code.

Anyway, here’s the screenshots :



Snow fall, I have a basic ‘random wind engine’ using tweener. I set the max number of flakes to 25… on crappier machines more meant creeping slow death.



I’m quite happy with the “random floating” of the detail flakes…

That’s supposed to be my favicon smiley d00d… quite the artist I am…

Behold, The Hercules-Trophy Snowflakes greeting app!

deep link directly to the flake pictured above

Ok, Holidays start here. Happy holidays, more exciting blogging in 2008!

Ice Cube, How… How could you?

I’ve always liked you. Even after Anaconda, and your last attempts I heard on the radio, I still remember… Jumping on my bed, memorizing lyrics and blasting ‘Straight Outta Compton’

“Flash is outta here”… It’s not so much the message, it’s the messenger. I don’t care what Ice Cube thinks about flash, it’s just so damn surreal to hear him say it?! He might as well have said, “Singleton pattern is for Suckas!”. People outside working hours just don’t say things like that. Period. It’s wrong. It’s like seeing your teacher outside school. Or your grandpa talking about sex. Ice cube?! wtf?

Will Adobe respond? Too bad Eazy-E is dead? Maybe Snoop Dogg could churn out some dope ass AIR apps… East Coast West Coast? Puff Daddy? Browser wars are so passe, puhleaze, I for one welcome our new MTV Gangsta driven RIA Platform warring Overlords!!!!11

Last week I started preparing an “Example Cairngorm app” that I could train the new nascom flash team with. Last night, I modified it :

Click to placate your Ice Cube Hate

There’s an HttpService which points to a php script, which in turn returns insults scraped from some online “insult generator” pages. These are displayed over randomly rotating screen shots from the offending video . If the Cairngorm training does happen, I may continue work on this masterpiece!. “AddInsult” (yeah baby, web2.0). “Viewed insults” screen with a datagrid (so sexy :D) . Maybe some HOTT text effects, tomato cannon, even some Fire?!! As usual, you can right click for source, prolly not worth it though. Some original code, some source from here and there…

If you’re new to Cairngorm, David Tucker has some well written tutorial style articles. Not to stray from the topic of Ice Cube, but I’ve been weighing PureMVC and Cairngorm… I lean more towards Cairngorm, but am not crazy about it. There’s a funny (but makes a point) posting at the bottom of this blog entry concerning these two frameworks. But that’s another topic.

Go insult Ice Cube!

For shizzle, ice cube is more this than this