I was digging in my archives when I came across this POC (Proof of Concept) I did last year …
It would make for a nice simple Flash Player 8 performance test … basically it just reads an XML file containing 10,000 (or more) “nodes” with random x,y coorindates and then populates that list of [...]

The April issue of MX developer’s journal is out … download the pdf by clicking on the big fat icon below:

I think it’s kind of neat seeing animation outside the flash realm every once in a while … hence my post … Mural sized “lenticulars”:
“Rufus Butler Seder creates motion pictures on a grand scale using no electricity, moving parts, or special lighting. After some experiment he developed an 8′ square, lens-ribbed glass tile that was [...]

I’ve gotten some feedback and cleaned it up a bit. It’s still a work in progress and hopefully it will continually evolve.
Keep the entry below bookmarked or drop me an email at: flashlite@scottjanousek.com if you’d like to keep up to date on it’s progress.
Download:
Flashlite 1.1 Reference Guide

I’ve been a big fan of BlueSkyNorth’s work since MAX last year when I first got my taste for FlashLite at one of their hands on seminars. They were really early adopters.
Anyways, I just surfed their redesigned site and noticed:
1.) a new tool announced tool called SWF2SIS. Looks like another packager tool.
2.) a [...]

If you’re like me you’re likely going back and forth between the luxury of AS2 and the prehistoric FlashLite 1.1 syntax (aka Flash 4) … which can be a pain … but the price you pay for early adoption.
Anyways, I put together a short reference guide (aka a “onesheet”) that attempts to consolidate a lot [...]

If you liked hapland … I just came across hapland 2. Enjoy.
-sj

“Verizon new Fiber Optic Internet service: Verizon began rolling out a new Internet service in Southeastern Pennsylvania, called FiOS.
This test market is one of the first places to use a new service that offers Fiber Optic connections directly into the home, capable of incredible bandwidth, and hopefully other areas of the East Coast will be [...]

At the keynote at FITC 2005, there was some talk about library panel improvements in the next release of FMX.
One improvement slated (more like a fix) was the ability to access multiple library panels from a simple dropdown menu within a single core library panel … of course, you’ll still be able to use the [...]

I know these articles have already been blogged on mxna by marco, but I figured I’d repost them since that post had broken links … and Bill Perry is super busy these days.

NYC Traffic: Best Practices for Building Flash Lite Dynamic Content

Porting Flash Animation to Mobile Phones with Flash Lite

The killersound Technique: Optimizing Digital Audio [...]