WebDU – social experiments ooohhhhh

Filed under: Adobe, Flash, Flex, General, New Zealand — Wrote by Campbell on Friday, May 30th, 2008 @ 12:22 am

Geoff from Daemon, Minty from Nectarine and Kai from Ventego Creative have created WebDU’s very own trading card game. The cards look great and you can tell they have had the magic wand of Nectarine cast over them, and the combined word smithing of Kai and Geoff to make you giggle.

OFFICAL:

“All you have to do is submit a hand of our incredibly collectable trading cards to the friendly conference staff, and if it’s one of the highest scoring hands, you could be in for a share of the goodies.”

So theres prizes to win and cards to trade/pilfer. Anyone else from NZ heading to WebDU? Ping me if you are and we should head out in force to one of the many social events

Can’t wait to see them in real life? you can check out a preview HERE

But watch the fine print. Even at low resolution I can make out some fairly strange topics covered in the rules which will lead to all sorts of shenanigans at the conference.

Great work guys…. and Minty how do I get a cartoon of me? they rock so much.

Wooo Hooo new flash player – maybe with Peer to Peer

Filed under: AIR, Adobe, Flash, Flex — Wrote by Campbell on Friday, May 16th, 2008 @ 1:21 am

Today Adobe announced the public pre-release version of the Flash Player 10. Improvements include:

  • Creative Expression

    • Custom Filters and Effects
    • 3D Effects
    • New Text Engine
    • Text Layout Components
    • Drawing API Enhancements
    • Color Management
  • Visual Performance Improvements

    • GPU Compositing
    • GPU Blitting
    • Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1)
    • Vector Data Type
  • Rich Media
    • Dynamic Streaming
    • RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
    • Speex Audio Codec
  • Other Community Requested Enhancements

    • File Reference
    • Dynamic Sound Generation
    • Large Bitmap Support
    • Context Menu
    • GB18030 Compliance
    • Ubuntu OS Support

My big interests lie in the performance areas, as I am starting to hit a lot of the barriers of the Flash player as customers demand more and more from the Flex applications we make (hoping to show a big one soon – which will explain my lack of blog posts recently).

Also of note was the mention of the possibility of peer to peer UDP communication. I haven’t dug into this one much but if so WOW!

Finally as pointer to the “squeaky wheel gets the grease” ideal the guys involved in the “Adobe, make some noise” campaign finally have something to make some noise about.

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