IT seems these guys manage to hide away somewhere untill they release some exciting demo swf that wets everyones appetite, then all the attention scares them away.
You see these special creatures follow a diferent path, squeezing and hacking every bit of performance from the flash player. They migrate daily to a communal website for social interaction.
Here we have an excellent specimum of the Flashious3Dhacium in all its crowning glory. John from http://johnukmn.blogspot.com has posted an example of his efforts which have 3d lighting and a faux depth of field (click the swf) in his latest blog post HERE
If you do happen to catch a glance of this special creature please do not scare him as we need more of them in this world, and this particular one is making great advances.
Its really exciting to see new Engines come out in AS3 using the latest VM. The speed and framerate of this example is really promising. Well done John (hope the nature channel commentary isnt offending, Ive had too little caffine) 
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Oh how I have been waiting for this. The boys over at WebOrb have released the latest version to the public and guess what
"The product is free and open-source and does really wonderful things for integrating Flex and/or Flash Remoting applications with Rails. We implemented both AMF0 and AMF3 protocols as well as added support for service deployment via standard Flex configuration file (remoting-config.xml)."
So now Ican make flex datservices in mere seconds and consum them in flex in even less. Good work guys, will be letting you know how I get on.
Check it out via thier blog:
HERE
Just got backfrom boarding in the South Island, St Arnaud. Man I love getting away from the hussle of the city.
Boarding with the boys is just good ol fun.
A while ago…..a couple of years reall, I started writing an online OS in flash. Got kinda into it then found other things to do. Since then I have seen a couple of people/groups who took it alot further. Recently Goowy took it the furthest, but now there is http://desktoptwo.com/ Man that is cool. And its flash. Wonder how many classes in that app. It has Email, Blog, file sharing, a concept of a hard drive, IM, Wordprocessor, spread sheets and more.
Very Cool!
Yep you heard right, Free! Well restricted in the free versions but not much. With the release of Flex 2 came the need for AMF3 compatable solutions. Recently I have been hunting round for one that allowed me to use Ruby on rails along with AMF. There are a few opensource options underway but by the looks of it the guys at WebOrb are well underway. They alreay have versions in .NET and Java so its safe to say they know what they are doing. I got a comment posted one of my other blog entries and I really cant believe I hadnt heard of this sooner. I realise these guys used to be FlashOrb but its all new and shinny.
"Free open-source implementation of Flash Remoting in Ruby."
"Can be deployed into any Rails-enabled application to expose it to Flash Remoting and Flex clients."
"Provides full implementation of Flash Remoting and Flex Data Services (AMF0 and AMF3, Data Management)"
If you head over to http://www.themidnightcoders.com/index.htm and check it out, they say that the PHP and the ROR version is coming Q3 06 (never really liked that whole quarter thing but I spose it means there isnt a solid date). I cant wait though, seeing how easy and fast ROR is along with AMF and some flex (my goodness I sound like a marketing person lol) I will be making some cool stuff…..quickly.
Best of all the same packages that provide the AMF are specifically designed to intergrate with AJAX calls. So you get the best of all the Web 2.0 terms to sell your client on buying the full version. The have plenty of demoslive on their server. Showing that pretty much the same methods can be accessed via both AMF and ajax calls.
So put this one in your "to keep an eye on" box and hold your breath.
