Another Flash Lite vs. Java article

Posted on May 14th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Adobe, Flash Lite.

ZDNet Asia has posted the latest in a long string of Flash Lite vs. Java articles that are out there on the net. It’s a good article, but doesn’t present anything that hasn’t been stated in the dozens of other articles that bring up the debate. But I did like this little gem:

IMHO, there’s no technical reason that Java can’t do everything that Flash can do, with a little work.

Ahh, there’s the rub! Why go through that extra “little work” (which I think is a vast understatement) if you don’t have to? :)

Read “Is Flash Better than Java” at ZDNet

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Chumby has a couple of Flash jobs available

Posted on May 9th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Flash Lite.

Scott Janousek posted that the folks at Chumby are looking for a Flash Programmer and Flash Artist. If you’re not familiar with Chumby, they’re the company that makes cute little devices that use wireless internet to display news, photos, etc. using Flash as the UI. Their offices are in beautiful San Diego, why wouldn’t any Flash dev want to work there? :)

[tags]Chumby, Flash jobs, Scott Janousek, Flash Lite[/tags]

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The latest PaperVision3D demo is awesome!

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Uncategorized.

The guys at PaperVision3D have posted their latest demo that was shown at Flash In the Can. It’s an awesome 3D underwater environment complete with interactive fish

“Designed to showcase the current revision of Papervision3D, it features different types of objects and materials. There are 70 fish, made of 5 plane objects in straight hierarchy, with transparent textures divided in pieces at runtime. Animation is calculated for each plane, and assigned as XZ position and rotationY. That’s another 700 triangles.”

This is a great demo of the tech and a superb example of how far Flash has come. It’s just a matter of time before we start seeing 3D flash games on consoles like the PS3 and XBOX.

Read the PaperVision 3D RC1 shark demo post

[tags]Flash, PaperVision 3D, FITC, Flash in the Can, shark demo[/tags]

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