Archive for April 10th, 2008

This FLV player is my week stock components choice. It plays YouTube streaming videos! and any kind of video file that Flash Player supports ( FLV / H.264 encoded video including MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, F4V). The code is very clean and it’s easy to customize the player’s design. It supports multiple playlists!

The last of a 4 serial 3D tutorials on Illustrator. This tutorial will show you how to make 3D gradient logo in minutes. This technique is great for making 3D graphic objects and icons.

The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2 and 3.

The third of fourth tutorials on 3D in Illustrator.
Are you still using the traditional 2D graph for your reports and presentations? This 2 pages tutorial shows you how to create 3D graphs with Illustrator CS2 at ease.

This tutorial is the second of four, and shows you how to create realistic 3D fruit bowl illustration with one of the Adobe Illustrator new features: 3D Revolve Effect.

This tutorial is the first of four Illustrator tutorials showing how to create different tri-dimensional draws. This one shows you how to create a nice 3D vase in 5 minutes with Illustrator 3D Revolve Tool. It is fun [...]

By Sam Williams
In this article I will describe the process for developing a Flex/Cairngorm application for viewing images (see Figure 1). The application itself is small. I originally developed this project as a demonstration showcase for potential employers. My [...]

Eric released the alpha version of his application.
Some of features are:

Configure galleries via XML
Configure runtime styles via XML
Associate galleries with styles
View prebuilt slideshows based on existing galleries

Den Ivanov shows us a very nice PV3D made toy with some kind of masking, that shows the same tree in the different seasons. You can Drag mouse to rotate, scroll mouse wheel for zooming & walking through portals to another season.

Thibault Imbert decided to released is book on open source license. This book is write in French, although Thibault ask for the cooperation of everyone to translate it to other languages (primarily English). I really don’t understand why O’Reilly France didn’t publish the book, but the intention of Thibault is great and should be followed [...]