New Job: Project Manager

I’ve signed this morning, I’ll now be Project Manager at MBA-Exchange (an international marketplace for top business talent) for the Front-End Web Development department. I’m really looking forward to this new experience, I certainly will learn a lot from the team and it’s exactly the topic that interest me. It’s now my last month as… Read More »

Flash Lite 3 Is Coming… Soon!

2007 is going to be great for developers and service providers using Adobe technologies. The CS3 suite is coming soon and I’ve just read, via actionscript hero ,that Flash Lite 3 is also going to be release in the half of 2007. The big news about Flash Lite 3: video! With Flash Lite 2 the… Read More »

It’s Exam Time, Again…

I’ll be more quiet these next days as I’m entering my exam period. Lot’s of nice stuff: Marketing tools Enterprises Strategy Marketing research Environmental Economy Durable Development Economy Iconography & Semiology But the good news is that Lift conference will take place exactly the same time, so after exam I can go and listen to… Read More »

Apollo : finally a stunning demo!

Just watched the new demo of Apollo by Mike Downey. Until then I found Apollo demo quite unimpressive, but this time it really rocks: a nice and sweet EBay desktop application (developed mostly by Christian Cantrell and Effective UI). Mike Downey says that a developer version shall come out in the next couple of months…… Read More »

Category: AIR

Don’t reinvent the wheel…

You like to use 3D in your flash animation but you are lazy to code the 3d motor? I’ve just been pointed out about the 3DEnvironment which is a Flash component to create a fast 3D environment with a minimum of effort. It works in Flash 8 (or MX 2004) and you can use any… Read More »

Photoshop CS2 Lessons

Monday at the Nomades (IT school in Geneva), I’ll be giving Photoshop CS2 lessons. It’s already the third time I teach an Adobe technologies. My first time was with Flash, my second time with Premiere Pro and now Photoshop. I feel myself very lucky to be able to change the topic at each time (even… Read More »

Tracking mouse leaving the Flash Player (AS3)

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://blog.metah.ch/image/example/mouseTrap.swf” height=”200″ width=”300″ /] Actionscript 3.0 allow us to detect easily when the mouse leave the Flash Player, making it possible to avoid strange behavior of our clip. For example during “drag and drop” it can be useful to know when the mouse leave the stage. To do this you just have to use… Read More »