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Flash on the Beach 2009 (photos)

I don’t really feel like doing a full recap of three days of this year’s Flash on the Beach (even though I had a most wonderful time), but some shots and videos I took came out pretty well, so I thought I’d post ‘em (more photos on my flickr):

(above: Joshua Davis doing the very last [...]

Pathfinder & Organisms (AI)

As promised, here is the project experiment that I originally wrote the pathfinder algorithm for.

Here’s how it works: ‘Organisms’ (the colored moving squares) are thrown into an infrastructure (a collection of connected points, i.e. the circle/star with connected dots). Each organism is assigned a certain destination-point within the infrastructure and carries [...]

Spaces in Flex Actionscript-only project-names

Odd enough Flex Builder seems to hate it when you want spaces in the name of an Actionscript-only project:

Here’s the rough guide to having spaces in your Flex Builder Actionscript-only project-names:

Kind of leaves me wondering, why all the fuss in the project-wizard if we can rename our projects in the navigator?

SVN misplaces my Flex project-files

A little over a week ago I made a post about Flex running old versions of my SWF. In a nutshell; Flex Builder 3 seemed to disregard any changes I made to the classes in my (Actionscript-only) project, and compile an SWF with older versions of the edited classes.
A few days later however, I concluded [...]

Flex 3, stop running the old version of my SWF!

UPDATE: Turns out it wasn’t so much Flex causing this ruckus, but rather Subversion:
rubenswieringa.com/blog/svn-misplaces-my-flex-project-files
I might’ve also have called this post “How many more times will I have to re-import my projects into Flex Builder 3!?”, this sucks..
Today I decided to work on a project of mine, so I pulled in the latest version from my [...]