The next meeting we will be going over the basics and talking standards. You can attend this meeting one of two way, in person by going to urban eats 2/20/10 at 2pm CST or via adobe connect live at https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/r94924134/
Urban Eats Cafe
3301 Meramec Street
St Louis, MO 63118
(314) 558-7580
Link: Here
This is the second part to our 3 part video tuts on the Gaia Framework. In this short video I show you how to use the Gaia API to respond to page chage events.
Since there was an error in the recording of the last meeting and so many people have asked I have made a video tutorial for people looking to learn a little about the Gaia framework for flash. This video is the first in a 3 part tutorial about the framework.
Sorry everyone, there has been some changes in the group and we are gonna have this months meeting a little later then normal. Just a heads up, next meeting will be broadcast live via adobe connect and record. The topic will be getting back to basics. I have seen a new influx of people who want to learn as3 but still need to learn the basics. So I will be going over basic vars, functions, classes and packages. I hope this puts you in the right direction for continued learning and will hopefully help most of you out there follow along with new meetings as they happen.
For all of you who missed last months meeting about the gaia framework, sorry there was a error in the recording and I will be reproducing a screen cast later today.
If you have ever seen my blog gfxcomplex.com, I have been writing about amfphp vs ZendAMF for some time. I have some opinions about how amfphp was left to fall apart in the shadow of Zend AMF, but I shall leave that to my own blog to go into details about that. Besides that I have some good news, there looks to be a new group of people dedicated to bringing life back into amfphp. I’m not sure who did this but there is a new release of amfphp 1.9 uploaded today 2-2-10.
I have not yet looked into it to see what has changed, I would hope the patch to the regular expression problem that newer php versions caused. It feels good to know there are people still hard at work with amfphp, it has always been a good solution for flash to php.
Today at vimeo there was a blog post that stated that vimeo had launch a new video player via html 5 support that did not use the flash player. For the most of only a few of the newest browsers are supporting html5 so there was a few people complaining that they could not see it working. But the thing that bothered me was the general resentment people had towards the current flash based video player. Now I don’t know about you, but the flash video player that vimeo currently uses was the thing that interested me the most about vimeo. Strangely, I was the first person to post a comment in support of the current flash player which caused a few people to replay with negative remarks. The part of that being “strange” was the blog post was immediately removed right after that even though there was a fairly large number of comments in that blog post. Was the removal due to the large amount of flash bashing? or perhaps due to complications that may arise from insinuating that they would be doping the flash based video player in the near future? I can’t really tell you one way or the other, but this is a disturbing trend that I’m seeing more and more as fanatics state that html 5 will in some way be the death to flash.
Edit: So it would look that the blog post is still there, but because of some bug it not showing up all the time.
