Adobe CS4 Presentation
Rome Session
Martedì 21 Ott 2008 :  9:30 - 18:00
Aran Mantegna Hotel
Via Mantegna, 130 Roma, EUR

The presentations has highlighted some of the new features, aspects and targets of the new CS4 suite.

In the morning, there has been a meeting reguarding how CS4 could better work flow, and some of the new features, like the XFL interchange format, seem to greatly improve speed and productivity.

In the afternoon, i attended the web track with demonstration of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and they look great. Photoshop is very faster, even with big sized images, the speaker was working with an image of 1.12 Gb and it was smoother than wind. All the software from the new suite works moving the weight from CPU to GPU, if you have a 3d acceleration video card.

After that, i went to the Flash and Dreamweaver course. I had already seen many of the new flash features, but seeing them in action was like a thunderstrike.

I am looking forward to buy the new CS4. I really am.

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Hi to all,
this is the last project i made for Egolab, it is a long time i do not update my portfolio online.
It is a funny drag and drop game, in which you have to reinterpret recipes on the base of the Slowfood association principles, that are biodiversity and the right of any nation to grow and use its own tastes.
For this project i worked with Marco Fresta, creative designer, Rita Petruccioli, character and background designer, Alessandro Balasco, php/mysql designer & developer and Federico Panella, character animator.
Have a try and discover what kind of cook is inside you!

Homepage

Nation select

Game screen

Your recipe

Enjoy :)

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Hi all! This is a simple gallery i created for a project. It is very easy to customize, to change and to understand. It is a good starting point for creating a gallery system for your site. Download and see.

Demo (took the photos from my flickr)
Source code

I hope you enjoy!

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Macromedia (and Adobe) Flash Player let you pass parameters to use in your movies at runtime. If you need a swf to change something basing on parameters passed to it, then you can use the FlashVars to pass the custom variables to it, and have them straight in your root timeline.

If you use the FlashVars, the variables will be created in the movie before the first frame is displayed.

The format is very important. You have to use querystring format to pass variables, as you do for importing variables or sending variables through GET method. Let’s see an example.

id_user=245&username=jack&age=15

As you can see, i’m sending three values, id_user, username and age, right in my movie. Maybe i want to change a dynamic greeting for my user, or something else.

Anyway. The format of the string is a set of name=value combinations separated by ‘&’. Special and/or non-printable characters can be escaped with a ‘%’ followed by a 2 digit hexadecimal value. A single blank space can be represented using the ‘+’ sign. For more information about URL encoding, please check URL Encoding: Reading special characters from a text file

You simply have to add the FlashVars property to your Object and Embed tags in the html used to host the movie.

Object Tag Example:

<PARAM NAME=FlashVars VALUE="id_user=245&username=jack&age=15">

Embed Tag Example:

<EMBED src="display.swf" FlashVars="id_user=245&username=jack&age=15" … (other parameters)></EMBED>

In this way, the variables will be available in your swf. Try it out!

See you soon!

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