Working with Eclipse is a great experience with lots of powerful features at your fingertips.  Unfortunately, for a beginner it can be a little difficult to get used to and not immediately obvious how to do certain tasks. Setting up projects can be particularly challenging, especially if you have a lot of extra development requirements (for example, using Maven, Ant, Sping, etc.).  Using the standard Adobe getting started guide gives you a gentle introduction to remotiing and messaging, but doesn’t give you details on how to set up a clean “bare bones” application.

This article lists the steps to create a bare bones BlazeDS server configuration using the turnkey solution. More »

Today I decided to play around with Papervision3D with some reasonably successful results. You can see the fruit of today’s work in the heading, where it will probably live until I do something funky with the rest of the site. If you move the mouse around on the movie you will notice that the cube changes behaviour a little. Try finding the “sweet spot” if you get bored… it will make the cube stop rotating. I may blog some more on Papervision3D in the future as it is a very neat framework once you get used to it.

If you are reading this post from an old archive, the SWF might have changed so you can see the original here.

You can find the source code here.