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Decided to post about this because I couldnt find much information on it myself.

I just baked a pair of 2009 CCM U+ Skates in my oven. Here’s the recipe:

Pre heat oven to approx 200 Fahrenheit/93 Celsius

Place the skate on a ceramic plate, I find the girlfriends “expensive plates” work best.

TURN OFF THE OVEN

Put the sktes in making sure nothing is touching any metal, just the “expensive plate”.

REMEMBER TO TURN OFF THE OVEN

My CCM’s specified 2-3 minutes for senior size skate (2 min for a junior). I gave mine 2min 30sec each.

Strap them on fairly tight all the way up.

Make a few passes tightening up laces a bit more each time until you’ve got the boot strapped a little tighter then you would on game day.

Kick back and watch the Redwings beat someone.

I left mine on for about 40mins until I couldnt take the pain and loosened the laces back, re-tightened and sat for another 30mins or so.

Today we rolled out the new version of the Sanity Australia web site. Several months of blood, sweat and late nights went into this one. It’s a major e-commerce site built for Australias biggest music and dvd retailer. I was responsible for the front-end development and .NET integration.

Take a look at:

http://www.sanity.com.au

It’s officially official, PaperivisonShowcase.com has undergone it’s final redesign and it has been launched on the Papervision Blogs. It’s a great honor to be joining the official Papervision team and I hope to find other interesting ways to help support the PV3D community.

I’ve also got some ideas for a few enhancements to the site and I’m adding Papervision projects daily so check it out, the best Papervision web sites at PapervisionShowcase.com

While some of you may have known this already but the delta value (booth AS3 & AS1/2) depends on the Operating Systems’ scroll settings, namely the scroll speed which can be different from system to system. Some systems scroll 3 lines at a time, some 7, some scroll an entire page.

So the best way to normalize this is by using Math.abs() like so:

var scroll = delta / Math.abs(delta);

A preview of the new Crust site featuring quite a cool Carousel I created from pre-rendered FLV video. I did a version of this Carousel in Papervision 3D but decided to run with a 3D pre-rendered version as the level of interactivity didnt require a full PV3D application.

The Carousel uses 2 small FLVs, one for the scrolling and one for the box opening. I simply loop part of the scrolling video to allow the boxes to slide multiple times and reverse the videos for animating the slide in the opposite direction or to close the box lids. I then load the Pizza PNG itself under a dynamic mask on top of the FLV along with the Pizza information from an XML web service. Video rendering by Jonathan Miranda.

ActionScript 3, Tweenlite, Bulkloader.

Cool effect. Check it out at:
http://www.scottking.com.au/portfolio/crust/

Last week I launched version 2 of our Olympus PEN promotional site. This site has a range of Flash including a Flickr based Papervision 3D Gallery and competition, 360 Product spinners, YouTube videos and informational panels.

http://pen.olympus.com.au

Design: Jonathan Miranda, Glen McPherson, Aliza Nordin

People keep asking me about my thoughts on HTML5 and Silverlight, I decided to include CSS3 for the ride. So here you go.

HTML 5 – I cant see it seriously competing with Flash for at least 5 years. Firstly, browser vendors will implement their own take on the standards, Microsoft will implement their own take on the standards implementation and force web devs into several more years of IE hacks and work arounds. Secondly, for the market penetration of those browsers to really become wide spread enough for mainstream development will take at least 2 years. However, once implemented correctly and teamed up with the power of CSS3, the web will be a better place for it.

I loathe Silverlight. It is the epitome of everything that is wrong with Microsoft and in many ways, the internet. We have a perfectly good, well developed platform with 99.9% user penetration, Flash, and along comes Microsoft simply trying to cash in with their own, inferior albeit it infant version. They then use their usual strong hand tactics to force it into the market place in places it is not needed. Effectively creating another browser war scenario. Thanks but no thanks Microsoft, we’re happy with our Flash.

This further fuels my love/hate relationship for Microsoft. Stick your fantastic OS and get off the web.

I’ve added a new tutorial to The Tech Labs, “SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation”.

In this tutorial I cover best practice embedding of SWF movies using SWFObject with a custom function for adding browser scrollbars for smaller browser windows.

View the article here:

http://www.thetechlabs.com/tutorials/flash/swfobject-and-best-practice-implementation/

Flash has built-in functionality to allow a user to tab around the page elements using their Tab key on their keyboard, just as you would with a normal HTML site.

Flash highlights the focused Flash element with a 2px yellow border around the element.

Often designers will want to disable this highlighting effect so as to not disrupt their design. This can be achieved witha  few simple lines of ActionScript:
Be mindful of your implementation as this script uses a _root reference.


Button.prototype.tabEnabled=false;
for(var obj in _root){
_root[obj].tabEnabled = false;
_root[obj]._focusrect=false;
}


Tonight I did a “soft’ launch of my new personal project site, Papervision Showcase. After a few hours it was linked to by the guys at http://dev.papervision3d.org, picked up by Twitter and Google Reader and I’ve seen ove a thousand hits to the site in around 3 hours. I’ve also recieved a slew of new project submissions to add to the site. Now I’ve just got to finish up the actual site itself for it’s final launch.

Check it out at:

http://www.papervisionshowcase.com