UnitZeroOne

Today while doing normal work (meaning, not pv3d), I made a little typo combined with code completion, and suddenly I had a class name standing there with the name TraitsInfo, along with it's import, mx.data.utils.TraitsInfo.
At that moment I didn't have the time to have a good look at what was happening there, but I decided to revisit that tonight. I had a good look now, and although the class is unavailable, the code completion suggests that Adobe actually does have this class....

There's a couple of errors and small bugs in Flex which reveal things about the Adobe dev environment, like the path from the building machine (something like c:\dev\...\...\, can't reproduce right now).

This hint of a class which could us info about the Traits got me particularly excited though; I thought it was a reference to the AS3 Object Model. So if we would have more info on what actually happens with our classes in terms of what the Traits look like, this would give some good insights at runtime...seemed interesting to explore to me. But the package where this is in suggests it hasn't got anything to do with AS3, but it refers to data services. Still these things get me very curious. If anyone of Adobe reads this (I hope the title advertisement worked), and wants to and can share, please do.

For people interested in the Traits; this is probably the best document on it.

Yes, finally some of the work Satama FlashFabriek has been doing for client KPN sees it's first daylight. KPN Shood has come out of the box! KPN Shood is a video community site entirely built on with a Flex 2 front end. It's the first of the commercial Flex 2 projects SFF has been doing which sees a public release on a public site....one of many to come we all hope...

KPN Shood

This little plaything is something I've been working on a little while ago, and I was hoping to finish. Looking forward in my planning I think finishing it will take a while, so I'll post a quick WIP. It's really a work in progress, and it's really buggy, so consider it a proof of concept. It was nice to play around with papervision in a "maybe someday, when I get to finish it" kind of way. Since I posted this to the pv3d mailing list today, I thought I'd blog it too.
Displaying flickr image search results in 3d.

PaperFlickr/

The bugs & to be done things in random order :
1. You have to wait until all images are loaded before you can freely click around the datagrid.
2. The 3d panes are not clickables, that's why that datagrid is there.
3. You can't clear the result set yet.
4. Clipping of on screen faces occure (this is actually related to pv3d clipping).
5. It's kind of slow...the loading of flickr images is being cached on my server.
6. It slows down. Rendering modes on the panes are not reset, the more you show, the heavier it gets.

Next to that, it's cool to see what pv3d will be able to bring very soon...the amount of work this has taken me is minimal. Really minimal. No sources here yet.