April, 2009

I have been working on adding tricks to PoorBear over the last week. Trevor has sent us a ton of crazy animations for tricks (I will try and throw up a video preview of some of them soon) as a result, I was in desperate need of a way to generate collision verts in a manner other than plotting them by hand (yeah, I plotted and translated the verts for one animation by hand and it took about an hour). I will go over the method I used to solve this problem.

After much thought and feedback, we have decided to change the license offerings for our ActionScript Media Framework. As of today, we are removing the compiled only version of the product and introducing multiple site licenses based on entity size.

The new license model:

• $99 - Individual
• $350 - Small Business (2 - 20 employees)
• $895 - Midsize Business (21 -50 employees)
• $1895 - Large Business (51+ employees)

All the ladies out there can breathe a sigh of relief, we have posted Mr. Chad Fuller's profile to the company page. Heart breaker, programmer, and international superstar, it really didn't feel right not having him in there given he is responsible for this site. I've complained to everyone that I hate being the only one listed there and now I don't feel as lonely on the site.

We updated all the ActionScript Media Framework documentation on the site today along with all the documentation in the product downloads. Though we put out a new release, nothing really changed but the docs and those changes were simple. We removed all uncommented private/protected class properties from the documentation. This makes reading the documentation less of a headache since its less clutter.

If you have ventured into our Media Framework documentation, you will notice that we have matching docs generated for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. Thanks to Adobe, we have an official documentation tool (ASDoc included in the Flex SDK) for ActionScript 3 chunked full of features. For ActionScript 2 we had to rely on the community and ended up using the open source as2api project. Unfortunately as2api lacked some of the features we used from ASDoc, so we modified the source to enable it to do some of the things we wanted.