30
Sep
2007

AS3 component tutorial on newly revamped Adobe developer site

Adobe have revamped their developer site, judging by the post on Robert Penner’s site. The ActionScript 3 component tutorial looks invaluable to those wanting to create components in the new language.

20
Sep
2007

Good chiptune music

There’s a good selection of chiptune music up on the 16 dimensional records website. I’d heard the Gerbera track before by Dong and liked it a lot and the new album, 9801st marriage proposal, is really good.

Especially recommend hanatachibana, top track.

19
Sep
2007

Kuler Mac OS X screensaver app

Nice!. In German however, so I’m going to have to guess what some of the options are.

05
Sep
2007

Silverlight released

So, Silverlight finally gets a release. The Halo 3 demo is nice enough, but I haven’t seen anything that knocks my socks off as a developer yet. My money’s still on Flash; “Moviestar” adds H.264 video support (HD) and going by Ted Patrick’s blog post it seems the next version of the Flash player, “Astro”, is going to add even more features.

I still think Adobe need to add DRM support for video when not served from an Adobe Media Server; it pretty much renders progressively-downloaded video with any rights issues unusable otherwise.