Signs of Life – Launched!
After more than a year in development the BBC/Endemol production ‘Signs Of Life’ finally went live today. I was Technical Lead on the project, which means I did almost everything technical except develop original code (I did do some debugging though!). If you don’t believe me check out the credits here!
According to Media Guardian – Signs of Life is a thriller set in a fictional Suffolk town with a look and tone inspired by Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Unlike in previous interactive drama, however, viewers won’t be able to alter the plot. Instead, they will be encouraged to engage more deeply with content in a variety of ways, such as playing games, completing puzzles, or doing personality tests relating to plot content, the results of which they can post directly on to their own page on MySpace or elsewhere online.
Regrettably, it’s only available to users who appear to be from the UK, but if you’re interested in seeing some of the project email me and I’ll see what I can do.
Workspaces for agile teams and rapid application development | Assembla
I’m trying out a free Subversion/Trac online workspace. Assembla gives free space (up to 200MB) and online access to Trac and Subversion functionality – schweet! Workspaces for agile teams and rapid application development | Assembla
In under 10 minutes I set up a project site with Trac and Subversion, committed initial files, edited the Trac Wiki page and made a cup of coffee. All good in the ‘hood so far.
Although I’ve heard plenty of good reports about CVSDude their free offering is limited to 2MB. Maybe when I’m grown up I’ll have enough pocket money to pay for them, but for now Assembla seem to be suitable.
Dispatch an event from an AS3 class to an MXML component
I’ve been studying the free online Flex courses courses at TotalTraining.com and needed to step out of the ‘solution in a can’ style of the videos to test my understanding of the Flex event model. Everything worked fine until I needed to manually dispatch a timed event from within an AS3 class and have it received by its’ containing MXML component, and the Application containing that component. Simple stuff for the experienced ones out there, but it stopped me for a few hours until i read this code…
< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
< mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”vertical” xmlns:example=”com.example.*”>
< mx:Script>
< ![CDATA[
import com.example.events.CustomEvent;
private function customChanged(customEvent:CustomEvent):void
{
output.text += “EventTest: ” + customEvent + “\n”;
}
]]>
mx:Script>
event);” />
< mx:Button label=”Go” click=”eventSource.source();”/>
< mx:TextArea id=”output” width=”100%” height=”400″/>
mx:Application>
on this site. Until then I didn’t fully understand that an AS3 class (with no visible elements) can exist in an MXML document as an MXML tag.
