Ok, so I didn’t get my ass into gear and enter the competition – but others did, and their designs are now available to view online. The results are announced tomorrow (being Monday) Check out the competition website.
I’ve had a mosey through the designs, and these are my favourates… Read More…
I’ve been a bit slack on the External links side of things recently – but Deziner Folio really deserves a mention. It’s run by two guys – Navdeep and Navin. Deziner Folio is slick, with a nice design, spiffy transitions and, well, generally good ideas with the interface, there’s also a host of resources that they make available for download / demonstration – such as ‘Web 2.0′ Photoshop layer styles and various Image Gallery scripts.
Well, it’s gone Friday, so where’s my new AIR app? Unfortunately, I can’t give it you yet – although its nearly ready to be unleashed, I can’t show it until the next issue of the E-Newsletter is sent out. (That’s Marketing for you.) So you’ll have to hang on for a few weeks yet.
Nevermind, eh? I certainly learnt a lot playing with Flex builder / Air / AS3, and here’s hoping that I’ll have some spare time to do a few articles on what I’ve learnt – pitfalls, theory, code snippets, that kind of thing.
One thing I realised is that your intrinsic knowledge of Flash and it’s specialised coding methods mean very little working in Flex, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s bad – Flash programming is probably a bit of a niché market in how it’s done and works, and I get the impression that the Flex approach is a lot more mainstream theory-wise, so I’m prepared to put the effort into learning to code properly.
“James!” they say, “you’ve been dying to play with Flex and Air. Make us an application to accompany our E-Newsletter!” How could I refuse?
“You have until friday.”
So that’s what I’ve been doing.
I have unfortunately, no previous experience with Flex, Air or even ActionScript 3, so this is proving to be interesting. Marketing has settled on producing an RSS reader – stay tuned and I’ll let you know how things turn out in couple o’ days.
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