actionscript
do not adjust your sets
A few months back, I started learning to program with Flash. I was excited about the work and directions of my friend and associate Tom Saunders, and I wanted to engage with some of the questions of user interface design and data representation that had long inspired me. The core language of Flash -- ActionScript -- has a common lineage with JavaScript, a language I learned to love in 2006. One of my first Flash programs was a hacked-together proof-of-concept for accessing Drupal services through Flash remoting/AMFPHP. That was November 2007. Four months yielded a great deal of productivity for the Drupal/Flash project: internal, the introductory talk at Drupal Day, Andrew Haeg, soon a new site for The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank band, as well as some very interesting r&d from Modern Carpentry. Today I am very pleased to post the first of a new set of iterations for arithmetric.
using flash with drupal
welcome to a new arithmetric.
if you have adobe flash player installed, you should be reading this post in a flash-based interface. some directions for use: the green boxes on the left side represent my images, the red boxes at the bottom are my articles, and the blue boxes on the right side are notes. if you'd prefer the html version of the site, please navigate here.
this is the result of some recent work with drupal services, a module that provides remote access to the drupal subsystem, and with amfphp, an open-source php-based implementation of adobe's action message format. amf is the native communication protocol of adobe flash, flex, and air. its specification was opened recently by adobe.
