Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.
Look at Mozilla Labs.
Raindrop
Oct 23
Have you seen the October issue of the Edge newsletter? It’s now live on Adobe.com. Produced by the Adobe Developer Relations team, the Edge has 1.7 million subscribers worldwide. It features video, articles and tutorials for developers and designers who create content and applications for the web.
In this month’s video, Edge Managing Editor Julie Campagna is on the scene at Adobe MAX 2009. See a snapshot of this year’s lively event, including announcements, technology previews, and commentary from attendees.
Also included in the issue:
- An introduction to developing games on the Adobe Flash Platform by Samuel Asher Rivello
- From black box to contextual applications by Eric Oldrin
- The edge of Flash by Rob Ford
- A guide to Adobe developer groups and resources online by Bryan Rinaldi
- Unveiling WorkflowLab: A new tool for developing project workflows by Doug Winnie
- Object Relational Mapping for the Adobe AIR developer by David Tucker
20 Vector Illustration Graphics Tutorials, hope it will be helpful to you. Now let’s start:
Creative lighting techniques
Adding atmospheric lighting effects to your illustrations will attract the attention your clients. In this tutorial, you will learn five techniques that you can use to enhance the ambience of your night-time cityscapes by creating beams of light, glows, shines, video screens and neon signage.
How to Create a Mesh Flower in Illustrator
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a flower with Illustrator’s mesh tools and opacity masks. With these tools you have a high-degree of control and can create realistic looking illustrations.
Draw Your Self Portrait
In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform your phots into your vector self portrait. Its time to whip out the Pen Tool, it will be almost exclusively used in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial.
Convert a Photograph into Abstract Line Art
Line Art is an ancient and basic form of generating large graphics. This art is often seen on tiled walls, bamboo stick designs and on your blanket embroidery. In this tutorial, you will learn cover the same technique to convert a photograph into vector line art.
Create a Retro Vector Illustration with Stylized Lines
In this tutorial, you will learn how to vectorize an image with Corel Draw from scratch a photo reference. It give the image a stylized retro look with simple shapes and stitched design elements. Let’s get started with this tutorial targeted at entry level artists.
Combine textures with vectors
Sometimes vector art, although infinitely flexible, appears too crisp and unnatural. A little wear and tear is the perfect remedy, says Derek Lea
In this tutorial you will following skills: using template layers in Illustrator, working with Smart Objects across applications and smart Object masking techniques.
Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors.
illustrator Pucker and Bloat Effect and more
In this tutorial, you will learnhow to use the Pucker & Bloat Effect. It’s cool Distort & Transform Effect.
Create retro-look vectors
In this tutorial, you will lear how to bring the rich, fuzzy textures and warm colours seen in movie posters of the ‘70s to your own images, giving them a rich retro look without you even having to leave the computer.
Draw A Realistic Vector Light Bulb From Scratch
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use numerous shapes and effects to create light bulb from scratch in Illustrator.
Create a Photorealistic Digital Camera
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a photorealistic digital camera, making its main parts, such as the camera body, lens, flash, metal parts, camera buttons, etc. This tutorial will show you how to efficiently combine various elements to make the artwork looks more realistic. This is an extremely detailed tutorial with over 100 steps.
Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator
In this tutorial, you will go through the whole steps and techniques of creating a golden compass.It used just Adobe Illustrator and a heavy dose of ingenuity.
Create Sketchy-Style Vectors
There are many illustrations that call for a sketchy or hand-drawn feel. In this tutorial you will learn how to creating these effects with Illustrator’s Live Trace, Live Paint, Brushes and the ability to create you own brushes.
Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a cute panda bear face icon all from ellipses. The great part about this tutorial, is that you can easily apply the techniques to other icons, illustrations, logos, or other projects.
3d Isometric Vector Icon Tutorial
The tutorial is not only a 3d shiny box icon tutorial, but also an article to give an idea about how to design isometric scale icons.
Creating a Realistic 3D Beverage Can
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create 3-dimensional rendering of a beverage can built entirely from vectors by using of the Symbols palette, the Extrude tool and Illustrator’s Image Mapping.
Texturise your layered vectors
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create 3D elements in Illustrator, and layered elements that we can group into objects.
How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale
In this tutorial, you will learn: How to create a vector illustration from sketch to finish in Adobe Illustrator according to the demands of micro-stock websites. How to clean up your Adobe Illustrator file before saving it in EPS format. How to find and close all open paths. How to save EPS and JPEG files correctly for micro-stock sale.
Figure Shading
In this tutorial, you will learn some quick and easy ways to get your shaded figure drawing looking believable and also setting up the illustration so it can be animated easily in Adobe Flash.
Created a really cool design mixing a photo with vector elements
In this tutorial, you will learn how to created a really cool design mixing a photo with vector elements by using of Photoshop (lots of brushes) and Illustrator.
Thanks for Ntt.cc.
YUI 3 Is Out!
Sep 30
This is a ground-up redesign of YUI:
- Selector-driven: YUI 3 is built around one of the lightest, fastest selector engines available, bringing the expressive power of the CSS selector specification into actions that target DOM nodes.
- Syntactically terse: Without polluting the global namespace, YUI 3 supports a more terse coding style in which more can be accomplished with less code.
- Self-completing: YUI 3’s light (6.2KB gzipped) seed file can serve as the starting point for any implementation. As long as this seed file is present on the page, you can load any module in the library on the fly. And all modules brought into the page via the built-in loader are done so via combo-handled, non-blocking HTTP requests. This makes loading the library safe, easy and fast.
- Sandboxed: YUI modules are bound to YUI instances when you
use()them; this protects you against changes that might happen later in the page’s lifecycle. (In other words, if someone blows away a module you’re using after you’ve created your YUI instance, your code won’t be affected.)
It’s especially nice to see the new terse YUI namespacing, so you can just type YUI() instead of the older longer syntax.
The cool thing about YUI (and this release) is that it is literally driving the Yahoo! Home Page. That’s pretty awesome of Yahoo! to release this code and make it generally available to the wider community. Congrats to the whole YUI team on the new release.
Hi there! Ryan Stewart posted about some changes to the sound APIs in Flash Player 10 that let you generate sounds.
Look at Sonoflash – it is a provider of AS3 based Audio Flash Components. All sounds available on this site use our unique AS3 algorithm, no mp3’s or wav’s are used anywhere on this site.
Copying Stored Procedures
Sep 21
Ricardo Parente posted so usefull information about copying Stored Procedures to another server using Coldfusion for this.
YUI PHP Loader Beta Release
Sep 15
The YUI PHP Loader is a server-side utility for loading YUI JavaScript and CSS; version 1.0.0 beta 1 is available for download from YUILibrary.com today.
PHP Loader, originally written by longtime YUI engineer Adam Moore and now developed and maintained by fellow Yahoo Chad Auld, has several key features that make it easier to use YUI in PHP-based applications:
- Reliable, sorted loading of dependencies: You specify the version of YUI that you’re using, the modules you want to use, and PHP Loader outputs the requisite
scriptandcsstags for your implementation. Even if YUI’s dependency tree changes in a future version, your code won’t have to. - Support for performance best-practices: PHP Loader has three strategies to help you reduce HTTP requests — support for the Yahoo! CDN and its combo-handler (which aggregates YUI files into single HTTP requests on the fly), support for YUI’s rollup files, and (in the event you don’t want to serve YUI from Yahoo!’s servers) a lightweight combo-handler of its own. Server-side performance is fast as well, leveraging PHP’s APC cache.
- Extensible metadata format: YUI PHP Loader ships with YUI library metadata (for both YUI 2 and YUI 3); however, the application is generic and can be extended to support your own custom JavaScript and CSS modules — whether or not they use YUI at all.
Ben Forta from Adobe’s Platform evangelism team walks you through building an entire ColdFusion powered Flex application from scratch.
Guys from ExtJS publishe an excellent article about understanding principles of Drag & Drop.
One of the most powerful interaction design patterns available to developers is “Drag and Drop.” We utilize Drag and Drop without really giving it much thought – especially when its done right. Here are 5 easy steps to ensure an elegant implementation.
Story – it is a collaborative script development tool designed for creative professionals, producers, and writers working on or with scripts and screenplays. This preview version will let you try out a few of the scriptwriting tools that will be part of the overall features in the final version of Story.
You can download it for free.