QuasimondoThe world of Flash according to Mario Klingemann. quasi: Having a likeness to something; resembling mondo (ital.): WorldFree Flash Conference Anybody (yes, as in free beer)- May 11, 2008 Yes, you read correctly. Free. Multi-Mania 08 is a one day, five(!) track Flash + multimedia conference taking place in the beautiful small town Kortrijk, Belgium on Friday, May 23rd 2008. Koen De Weggheleire has once more managed to gather a hot lineup of more than 30 top-notch presenters - among them Aral Balkan, Peter Elst, Dave Schroeder, Ralph Hauwert, Rob Chiu and Hoss Gifford, just to name a few. I, too, have the big pleasure to speak there for the second year in a row and I'm really...http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000669.php Next big thing: Source Binder- May 9, 2008 Yesterday at the 10th flashconference in Stuttgart I was amongst the lucky ones who could witness the first public presentation of Source Binder by Visual Minds from Hungary and I can say that I was deeply impressed. What is Source Binder In short: it is a lightweight framework for node based editing built in Flash. Oh yes - somehow it looks like this is the year of the node for Flash. Node based editing means that instead of writing code you assemble a set of building blocks each with a...http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000668.php Flash Nostalgia: 5K PONG- May 5, 2008 Searching for an old experiment of mine I just rediscovered a piece from 20012002 which I thought I had lost - it's a implementation of PONG in Flash 5 with a file size of 5K. Back then it was an submission for the 5K award - a site which featured some amazing entries all under 5K which is unfortunately not online anymore. There have been some impressive examples in recent time of PONG made in 510 bytes or even in 349 bytes - so 5k is not really world record anymore. On the other hand - this...http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000667.php |