http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog Flash, Flex, AIR, IPhone Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:17:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's new? I finished working on a new partially flash website for EBBA (European Border Breakers Awards). The site is nice combination between flash and HTML. I must say it was really fun to do and I hope I get more opportunities to work on projects like this one! Check out the result at ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2009/12/08/european-border-breakers-awards/ The website Watwiljijmetwiet.nl (Dutch) from Tactus Verslavingszorg has won the Preffi-prijs 2009. theFactor.e has developed this website and I was one of the lead Flex developers. Watwiljijmetwiet.nl is a site for prevention and decreasing of problematic cannabis usage. The site is mainly targeting people between 16 and 25 years of age. ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2009/01/30/watwiljijmetwietnl-wins-preffi-prijs-2009-dutch/ Last Wednesday our Senior Rich Internet Consultant aka Joost Nuijten has presented the Tactive platform (see my previous post) at the Adobe Usergroup Netherlands. You can watch it here : Tactive presentation (Dutch) http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2009/01/28/adobe-usergroup-netherlands-tactive-presentation/ Last year at TFE we (Gerben and I) have been working on a project called Tactive. It’s an online platform for treatment of addictions. This platform is a replacement for the already existing treatment for an alcohol addiction. It seems to be easier for people to sign up for a ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/12/11/what-have-i-been-up-to-lately-tactive-showcase/ Today is the day I released my FIRST FLASH GAME EVER! Normally I create RIAs and this is something way different but it is interesting and especially fun to do. First of all I know that there are more games like this one, but I like it very much and ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/11/17/my-first-game-shoot-the-bubbles/ Sorry to say that FlickrBabes.com is still off the air So, it's been a while... To make it up to you I asked myself the following question: What is interesting for them and me. Obvious AIR is something interesting to play with, and (maybe you know it) www.flickrbabes.com is interesting to. Seems to ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/09/11/flickrbabes-in-the-air-desktop-application/ Today I decided to do a few funky particle experiments. This is what I came up with. The're relatively simple to make, but the result is fantastic. Click on the images to see the real deal. Maybe next week I create some kind of an interface to change the properties ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/04/04/rediscover-funky-particles/ I wanted to combine the power of Cinema4D and Flash (in a relatively short period) and see what happens. I started to create a simple 'lava planet' in Cinema4D, made a video of it and put it on the timeline in flash (I know on the timeline is not a ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/03/26/experiment-create-in-cinema4d-and-finish-in-flash/ The last couple of days I spend some time working with Cinema4D. I think it's really great. I just started to do 3d stuff (remember http://totallosameland.nl) and I'm still a long way from perfect, but I decided to place some of the renderers. Tell me what you think... FCS Sphere Volumetric Light Sword ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/03/21/cinema4d-here-i-come/ So I encountered a really weird, but probably "explainable" problem in AS2 yesterday. We all know that trace("200.1" == 200.1) //true and trace("200.2" == 200.2) //true trace("200.3" == 200.3) //true trace("200.81" == 200.81) //true trace("200.81" != 200.81) //false This above works fine...but the following is what scares me the most.... trace("200.82" == ... http://jaapkooiker.nl/blog/2008/03/10/why-sometimes-isnanstring-number/