Facebook Connect and Flash AS3

Posted in Flash, Flex on March 26th, 2009 by eccheung4

Obviously Facebook is popping up everywhere and I’m sure a lot of companies will be looking to integrate it with flash. Pieter Michels has started a great effort in bridging Facebook Connect and Flash using Actionscript 3. He provides a simple example using Flex and AS3.

Pieter Michels post on Facebook Connect to Actionscript 3
Pieter Michels Code Library at github as FBFlashBridge

Example of Facebook Connect with Flash at http://connect.redbullusa.com/

http://developers.facebook.com/
Facebook Connect Wiki
Facebook Developer Forum

UPDATE 3/30/09: I just noticed this post while looking through Facebook documentation. Looks like Adobe and Facebook are officially working together to support Flash and Facebook.

ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform - revamped open source version by Jason Crist
Adobe Developer Connection for Facebook - materials and samples

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Army Experience Center Career Navigator

Posted in Flash, Papervision3d on March 12th, 2009 by eccheung4

Army Experience Center Career Navigator
Forgot to mention there was an recent update to the Career Navigator for the Army Experience Center. I worked on making the Papervision 3D helix loop around and adding in the job titles on the planes and various other bug fixes and improvements.

Text in Papervision 3D - Clearing Things Up - This post by Andy Zupko helped with making the text a bit clearer on the planes (basically you need to use a larger textfield and change some settings) - check out his post and demo if your text is unclear on planes.

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360 | iDev Review

Posted in iPhone on March 6th, 2009 by eccheung4

Tom and John put on a great 360 | iDev Conference. It was a pretty relaxing conference where we were all well fed (breakfast, lunch, dinner) with sessions that were just the right length. There were also pre-hands-on sessions to bring people like me up to speed that have never worked on iPhone development before. Since I’m a flash developer, James Eberhardt’s hands-on session that relates flash development to the iPhone SDK was especially very helpful. He actually teaches a 2-Day course on it with the Rich Media Institute.

Overall, the conference was well worth it and more than I expected. It was inexpensive and a great introduction to the iPhone development world. It was also nice to learn that part of the fees goes towards a charity. Awesome job Tom and John!

Slides from the conference: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/360idev

Here are a couple links/blogs I collected from the session speakers:
http://www.craftymind.com/
http://iphonedeveloperjournal.com/
http://www.byteclub.com/
http://jonathansaggau.com/blog/
http://gamesfromwithin.com/
http://alanmusselman.com/blog/
http://www.mobclix.com/
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/
http://www.luisdelarosa.com/
http://iphone.timefold.com/training/myschool/resources.html
http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/

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