webdu 2008

13th
JUN

Posted by Brusca under Adobe, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Google

It’s been another whirlwind webdu. As per usual webdu gives anyone with a passion for this kind of work the added motivation to continue to grow and explore new realms as they arise with technology growth within the web world. Sometimes aspects of your work can be demotivating, thankfully there are exciting times ahead.

Flash CS4 has some very nice features. One of them being the use of inverse kinematics. You can now create bone structures to help animate characters from within flash and the bones can be accessed using actionscript.

An example can be seen here at The Flash Blog

New Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 beta versions are now available and we got a sneak peek of those at webdu 2008. Some very nice feature like webkit built directly into Dreamweaver.

Google Maps API for Flash. Google have finally released an API for Flash. Meaning we can stop using the Yahoo maps application on the Steve Irwin Day events page and use the much better mapping system from Google, that’s right Yahoo, there is a world outside of the United States.

All in all a good conference, and some very nice new features and toolsets to help us at Australia Zoo deliver RIA’s through the browser and on the desktop.

Now time to sleep!