Big Spaceship Labs

iPhone: CoreData Error

Stephen Koch — Jul 15, 2009

In an attempt to learn about CoreData to maintain persistent data on the iPhone I followed this tutorial. (I recommend following it and then opening up some of the provided examples from Apple that...

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Cutting Edge Layout

Benjamin Bojko — Jul 13, 2009

Something has been going on in the Ship's kitchen during the past few weeks. After we got a new rack for our knives they had just been randomly dangling around in the beginning, enjoying their...

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Just Another Flash IDE - Flex/Flash Builder Workflow

Daniel Scheibel — Jul 07, 2009

The usual flash sites that we build contain tons of huge graphics, animations, dynamic motion, videos, timeline transitions as well as tons of code, utilizing huge open source libraries like...

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iPhone 101: Understanding Distribution (Pt II of II)

Jamie Kosoy — Jun 05, 2009

In Part I of our distribution learnings we learned important lessons like the importance of mapping our certificate request to the same name in the iPhone Developer Portal, the differences between...

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iPhone 101: Understanding Distribution (Pt I of II)

Jamie Kosoy — Jun 03, 2009

When I first started dabbling with Objective-C and iPhone development I found the entire learning process cumbersome and frustrating. In fact, many days I still do. Often Apple’s documentation seems...

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Flash on Tap slides

Jamie Kosoy — Jun 01, 2009

If you missed Flash on Tap, you missed out. I had a blast in Boston meeting and drinking with the community. Let me tell you, the infrared5 people know how to throw a party. My presentation covered...

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Scrolling Materials in PaperVision

Charlie Whitney — May 28, 2009

For a project we were building recently in PaperVision3D I came across a problem when trying to clip MovieMaterials inside of a plane. Another big factor was that my stage was not set to...

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Spectracular Music

Benjamin Bojko — May 22, 2009

What started off as taking my first steps in Papervision evolved into the creation of a visualization that maps audio spectrums to a 3D body. My goal was to display sound as a smoothly tangled...

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FITC Toronto 2009 Link Dump

Daniel Scheibel — May 01, 2009

We went to the FITC conference in Toronto last week and had a blast. There was a good vibe all around and we had a lot of fun. To pass along all the good stuff we saw we generated a big FITC link...

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Color Unity: Adobe vs. HTML

Matt Kenefick — Apr 22, 2009

Working with colors can be a very difficult. It is hard to determine what is perceptual, what is consistent, and what is offset by outlying factors. Things can get pretty hairy when trying to...

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Labs Relaunch

Joshua Hirsch — Apr 13, 2009

With the launch of the new Big Spaceship site comes a relaunch of our Labs blog, and we have invited our design team to join the party. Joining our posts about code and technology will be insights...

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FITC Toronto

Joshua Hirsch — Mar 06, 2009

I am getting excited about FITC Toronto, which is coming up in April. I will be giving two presentations this year: one about BSS during which I will be showing some internal projects and experiments...

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3D vs. 3D

Daniel Scheibel — Feb 12, 2009

We were curious if we could run a simple test that quickly compares the new Flash10 3D capabilities and Papervision3D. We are totally aware of the fact that Flash 3D and all other 3D engines like...

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Links

Stephen Koch — Feb 12, 2009

Some links I've been exploring this week. TubeLoc (a mashup of YouTube and LocalConnection) is an ActionScript 3 library that serves as an adapter to the YouTube ActionScript 2 Player API. Lita -...

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Mac Firefox 3.0 + Flash + Javascript = Random Artifacts

Matt Kenefick — Jan 27, 2009

If you have been using ExternalInterface calls to Javascript, you might be noticing some random artifacts popping up on your document using a Firefox 3.0 on a Mac. This is most noticeable when using...

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Flash CS4 : Library issue

Stephen Koch — Jan 08, 2009

With Flash CS4 you may have noticed some changes to the Library. Adobe has done a good job with it this iteration notably with search functionality, the ability to drag the column headers to any...

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AIR App: AS3 Language Reference

Jamie Kosoy — Dec 09, 2008

UPDATED: The last version had a CS3 icon. Now it's CS4. :) UPDATED: Another alternative: Setting Flash CS4 to offline mode. var so = new...

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Porting actionscript to iPhone, not magic!

Charlie Whitney — Dec 04, 2008

When the iPhone first came out with an SDK, as a developer I was really excited, but apprehensive as I did not know a thing about Objective C. The first couple of days it seems like you need to be a...

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FOTB Miami, FITC Toronto

Joshua Hirsch — Dec 03, 2008

Some super early advance notice for a couple of speaking engagements. I will be at the first Flash on the Beach happening on this side of the pond, specifically in Miami. Also happy to be returning...

Labs is the Big Spaceship dev team's playground, where we share ideas and discuss code. Check out labs.bigspaceship.com for more discussion, as well as some of the tools we've built!

The Making of the MAX 2008 Website

Daniel Scheibel — Nov 26, 2008

Here are the Big Spaceship slides from Zanders and Daniels Session at MAX :: The Making of the MAX 2008 Website (20mb). We used the new Acrobat 9 to create the presentation. An amazing new feature...

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