Zainals ver 2 sneak peek preview !

May not be clear but cant bother resize em in then link them today .

The past week been my depression week for no reason and i just wish to know what is happening with moi =\ .
Anyway , give me your feedback !

Funny Cartoons ( the end of the world )

Its been there for sometime now in flash , but now someone uploaded it to Youtube so we can share it 🙂

New breed of tutorials , tutorialvid.com.

Here is how the web is advancing …

you dont need to seek written tutorials anymore , why would you do that when you are able to watch a video of your selected tutorial(s) ?

Tutorial Vid 

Long live Web 2.0 !

Tweener , tween and transition class .

I was surfing google code to see whats new .
Found a new tweening class “caurina.transitions.Tweener”.

Tweener is a static class – that is, a class that allows you to run methods on it, or call its properties, but that never lets you create instances from it. This means that, with Tweener, you never create a new object – you simply tells Tweener to do something for you.

Tweener works on the idea that, instead of setting the value of a given property of a given object directly, as in myMC._x = 10, you can tell that property to create a transition to that value – by doing this transition or tweening, you can control your numeric data in a more fluid way. Doing slides, fades, and all kinds of animation is the result of this kind of manipulation: by making a property or variable go to one value or the other fluidly, not immediately.

> Link
> Documentation
> Examples

16 Tips For Better Flash Development .

good article on how to optimize your flash movies , worth the clicky …

Flash is capable of performing an impressive number of tasks and delivering such a wide variety of different types of information that it can be tricky to know where to start when trying to reign in a bloated application. In an effort to keep a large and still growing Flash application that I am developing under control…

Read more 

Experiment: Yahoo Flash Search API …

As you can see in the example above i was able to build my own search service using Yahoo API .
Many other things can be achieved using Yahoo’s API including :

• Build a Flickr Application.
• Create a Yahoo! Messenger Plug-in.
• Create a Trip Planner Search Application.
• Perform a Yahoo! Search with ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3.
• Use the Yahoo! Maps Flash API.
• Create a Yahoo! Music Jukebox plugin.
• Mash up the Upcoming.org API.

More APIs on :

* Flickr API
* Upcoming API
* del.icio.us API
* MyWeb APIs
* Answers API

You can also check the other PL/Techs APIs like PHP , all can be found on Yahoo Developer 

Undocumented flash 8 ‘Documented’ …

Open source Flash

• Filters
• Blending Modes
• Geometry Classes
• TextField Extensions
• MovieClip Extensions
• Bitmap Display
• Text Renderer Control
• FileReference
• Bitmap Caching
• Performances
• ExternalInterface API

o JavaScript to Flash
o Flash to JavaScript

• Flash Lite authoring features in Flash Professional 8
• Mysteries
• Bugs
• Community Submitted Examples

Simply the best Bookmark !!

Every Developer/Designer should have this on the top of the their bookMarks !

the site includes :

• Tutorials ( Everything  Flash , php , ajax , css etc )
• Site reviews ( best sites ever)
• free useful tools ( fonts , code snippets )
• and much MORE !

I cant say more that You’ll have to see it  your self !!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com 

Getting WordPress posts into Flash!

After reading few documentation about some APIs & classes used with wordpress, i was able to get flash to read the titles and arrange them with their links .

not only that , its now possible to get the post title , post link , post entry(description) etc …
This will be one of the elements that i ‘ll be using in my ZAINALS ver 2 🙂

lovely eyh ?

Sketching Zainals.com Version 2!

Yea , I have started Brainstorming & sketching Zainals.com version 2 ,Currently thinking of new IDEAS for the new site , i’ll also be looking for fonts , color schemes and a good layout to beging with , if anyone can inspire me then please do 😀  .

This one will be more “Dynamic” over Animation wise , or thats what i will be trying to do .
With my current status it will take me bout 1-2 Months (less or more) to get it done.
Wish me good luck Eyh ?