Where I work in Brando we got an opportunity recently to work on an interesting project. The project was a website for Qatar based Agency 222. They wanted the site to have as it’s central point a 3D cube. While evaluating the project, it became apparent that the web has reached an interesting point in it’s relationship with 3D. 3D in the Browser Since the days when Director was one of the main web plugins for advanced multi-media projects there has been something of a dearth in 3D capable plugins for the web.

I recently dipped my toes into the Actionscript 3 toes. This is quite a readjustment from the experience of the past 7/8 years of traditional actionscript development. I was somewhat prepared after having done a lot of projects with Object Oriented programming languages. Specifically Java and C# (VB sucks balls). I, along with most actionscript developers, tried to con ourselves that first abusing the prototype property and then the abortive actionscript 2 was actually OOP.

The 25 lines of code challenge is on!! http://www.25lines.com/

Adobe has made the bug database for the flash player public. Its well worth a look if you’ve got something that should be working but isn’t. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP

Found a great little variable in flash on Friday, _lockroot. It makes every reference to _root in a movie refer to its own Stage, no matter what movie loads it in. Theres more here.