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Yesterday the powers that be decided to send me on a course by Rob Bateman all about building 3D websites. I had the opportunity to meet Rob on Tuesday at the PokerCoder event held by Adobe. As some of you may or may not know I have previously worked on projects using Papervision3D in the past, However I haven't really had the chance to pick it up in the last couple of months since starting at LBi so I was looking forward to getting back into it. The most interesting part for me was the introduction of Away3D I hadn't heard of this engine before and I was very impressed with it. In addition Rob did a great job with explaining the way in which 3D environments work in ActionScript. In addition this was all backed up by 36 example applications!

週末以外毎日、古い試験紙をできるつもりです！ここ点とパーセントを書いています。

Some time ago now i built this custom color picker that allows you to group colors together in addition it also allows users to search the Kuler database to bring back color sets rather than using the plain old colors in Flex. I haven't got the code at the moment but if anyone wants it just leave a comment and i will post it up. See the ColorPicker in action after the jump. (more...)

I have recently been building a predictive Search engine for a project for Canon to be released at this years Drupa in Germany. I cant release the code just yet but i will as soon as the project has gone live.
You can see it in action here you can search the ( very small ) archives of posts by typing in the search area. The predictive search is performed on the Titles of the Posts whereas if you press return or click search a full search is performed on both the titles and their content. Try it out 'Predictive' is a good place to start!.

今年、二級日本語能力試験を出来たいから、毎週、日本語でブログを書いてつもりです。僕は日本語で上手じゃないから、練習したいですね。頑張りましょう。二百一日の後、試験の日です。

I have recently seen some interesting posts regarding the topic of Static code blocks especially over at InsideRIA I posted my own two cents over there but I will also post it here for future reference:

I often use static variables for creating default styles for my components, these styles then can be overwritten by someone using the component however there will always be my initial stying applied if they arent overwritten.

/***** DEFAULT STYLE DECLARATIONS GO BELOW ***/
 
private static var STYLES : Boolean = defaultStyles( );
 
private static function defaultStyles( ) : Boolean
{
   //NO CSS DECLARATIONS
   var newStyle : CSSStyleDeclaration = new CSSStyleDeclaration( );
   if( !StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration( 'yOffSet' ) )
   {
      newStyle.setStyle( 'yOffSet', 30 );
   }
   StyleManager.setStyleDeclaration(
                                     'CustomComponentName',
                                      newStyle,
                                      true
                                    );
 
   return true;
}

I have recently taken a new job as a Flex Developer at LBi in London so i have decided to throw away the old BetaDesigns blog and start a fresh. I have been at LBi for nearly a month and a half now and i am really enjoying it, I have already had the opportunity to work with some big companies building Components and full Applications. As some of you may or may not know I am a big fan of component driven development so I am going to be using this blog to post open source components that i build along the way. Hopefully some of my post and components will be of some use to someone.