svManager provides a user interface for managing SimpleViewer galleries via a PHP application that runs on your webserver. svManager can be used with the free version of SimpleViewer or with SimpleViewer-Pro. Find out more about svManager here.
Thanks to Jack Hardie for doing a stellar job putting svManager together.
I found this image while browsing the fantastic Ffffound. Anyone know where it came from?
Scott Peterson has ported Quake 2 Quake to Flash 10 (second video down @ 4:50) via a C++ to AS3 converter. I actually missed this demo yesterday at MAX as I snuck out to the party early 🙂
With this, Buzzword and PhotoShop Express we are reaching the point where AS3 is powerful enough to handle just about anything short of the latest XBOX game.
TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.
TiltViewer was built using Away3D, a branch of Papervision. Currently Away3D provides better handling of mouse events for nested 3D Objects. One limitation of Away3D is that there is no access to a 3D object’s sprite, so you can’t apply filter or alpha effects. I’m guessing that soon these features will be added to both engines.
Does a 3D UI give more functionality than the equivalent 2D interface? No, but its certainly a lot cooler! Part of the motivation to build this was to explore ways to make 3D interfaces simple and intuitive.
Being able to load Flickr images into a 3D engine was recently made possible when Flickr added crossdomain XMLs to it’s image servers. Thanks Flickr!
Click here for more about TiltViewer.
Since the excellent Joel on Software no longer accepts comments, I decided to comment on his latest post here.
In his post, Joel explains how the current state of AJAX web-app development has many parallels with desktop app development back in the 90’s. Joel makes a breathless prediction of a future event that will revolutionize web-app development:
What’s going to happen? The winners are going to do what worked at Bell Labs in 1978: build a programming language, like C, that’s portable and efficient. It should compile down to “nativeâ€? code (native code being JavaScript and DOMs) with different backends for different target platforms, where the compile writers obsess about performance so you don’t have to. It’ll have all the same performance as native JavaScript with full access to the DOM in a consistent fashion, and it’ll compile down to IE native and Firefox native portably and automatically. […] Oh joyous day that will be.
Sound like anything you can think of? Someone needs to tell Joel his mythical programming language already exists: it’s called ActionScript. Admittedly ActionScript does not compile down to JavaScript and DOMs, but otherwise it matches his description perfectly.
Here’s another quote that seems to be talking about Flex/Flash/Actionscript:
Somebody is going to write a compelling SDK that you can use to make powerful Ajax applications with common user interface elements that work together. And whichever SDK wins the most developer mindshare will have the same kind of competitive stronghold as Microsoft had with their Windows API.
Sounds like it’s a good time to be an ActionScript developer.
Vuvox is a very cool Flash RIA that allows you to create interactive slideshows from your uploaded images, video and audio. Once your media is in the system it can be displayed via a variety of Flash templates. I helped out with some of the templates, as did the awesome Quasimondo.
Vuvox allows you to upload your content via Flickr or Picasa, and has a Facebook widget for easy sharing of your presentations. Check it out here.
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