September! Speaking at Adobe User Group BE meeting

The summer holidays aren’t even over yet and September already seems like it’s going to be a great month! Apart from the fact that I’m going to Flash on the Beach, there’s also something for us Belgians that’s a bit closer to home: the annual Adobe User Group meeting & barbeque on September 12th! And as it…

Render Bender v0.1: optimizing my Flash+Pixel Bender workflow

Often, when I’m writing Pixel Bender content targeted for Flash Player, the original toolkit leaves something to be desired. Luckily, Joa Ebert created his PBDT plugin for Eclipse which was already a great step to streamline my workflow. Still, the lack of previewing would require switching back to the PB toolkit. And more often than…

Stubborn and unexpected embedded font weight behaviour

Potentially confusing post warning! At my job, I often have to work with font embedding. Often, that just happens in Flash IDE as part of assets exported to a swc. Not only because it’s convenient sometimes, but also because I’ve found embedding through Actionscript behaves… well… strange occasionally, especially when using thin or extra light…

MultiMania 2008

Belgium’s biggest web-development event (or how should I call it ;) ) is over again, and the countdown to next year’s edition has begun! And yes, that is just a screenshot from their site… They had some big names this year, and some very good presentations. Starting out with Aral Balkan, who had lots of…