London Flash Platform User Group (LFPUG) meeting – Jan 2008
February 1st, 2008 by
Adrian
Last night was January’s London Flash Platform User Group meeting at the CosmoBar in Clerkenwell. The speakers were Paddy Keane talking about his experience of using PureMVC and Rob Bateman talking about the history of 3D on the web. The event was so popular that Tink had to send an email out to everybody warning that over 120 people had signed up to go, and that places would have to be on a first-come-first-served basis (normally we only get around 40 – 50 people). Anyway, here is a quick bullet point summary of what they covered.
PureMVC (19:00 – 20:00) – Paddy Keane
- Why use a framework?
- gives agility to the project and code
- helps with risk management
- good when features are changing
- Based on Model, View, Controller but with additional Façade
- gives code clarity
- shows your coding intent
- need to have good Development Process
- start with a list of features
- mock-up features and then test
- The best way to get started with PureMVC is to read the Best Practices document and then read it again
The 3rd Way: Handling 3D on the Web ( 20:15 – 21:15 ) – Rob Bateman
- History of 3D on the web
- VRML, 1994
- Web3D Consortium
- X3D standard, 2002
- Java3D, 1998
- Macromedia Shockwave 3D using Director, 2001
- Sandy 3D Engine in Flash, 2005 (Flash 8 & AS2)
- Papervision3D (Flash 9 & AS3)
- Import Collada files
- Showed examples
- Away3D Extensions
- OpenSource Community
- ASCollada – Collada ActionScript Library
- WOW-Engine
- evo.engine for effects
- Examples
- Use Google SketchUp to create 3D models
- Flash 10 may support hardware acceleration
- Next version of, Firefox 3.0 (codename ‘Minefield‘) is due to have OpenGL ES built-in
- This will be good for the mobile market
- Showed us ADHDTV by evoflash
- OpenSource Community
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