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Latest Events2011 RIA Tian Di Xing Beijing City Elite Forum Event Time: 2011.3.27 Registration Period: 2011.3.7-2011.3.25 Event Scale: 300+ people Location: No. 33, North 4th Ring West Road, Zhongguancun, Beijing National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Documentation and Information Center, Northwest Gate, 1st Floor Lecture Hall) Presentation TopicsFlash 3D API Related

2011.02.22: Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and I realize it's been a long time since I left any warm words here. In 2011, I hope to write more personal things here. A word of warning: from now on, if you don't like it, don't read it! As mentioned in the subtitle, let this blog return to its essence and its original intent. Looking back on last year, I feel more and more that this personal blog isn't personal enough. Many truly personal things never got written here; instead, I posted a few articles and videos that won't stand the test of time. I was afraid of this and that. If I wrote something too simple, I feared someone would look down on it; if I wrote something based on my own understanding, I feared someone with a different cultural background would take exception to it; if I wrote something slightly technical, I feared people wouldn't understand it. In the end, I ended up neither daring to write nor thinking it worth writing.

Spent Christmas with code, computer games, and movies. Uploading some The Settlers 7 screenshots to mark the occasion.

This afternoon I ran into an issue where Chinese output from Ant in the console was fine, but the Chinese output from mxmlc was garbled. The cause was that flexTasks was using ${FLEX\_HOME...

To be honest, my recent project has been getting more and more boring. The core stuff is basically done, and almost everything left is grunt work — nothing new or fun. Yesterday I finished The Settlers 7, was just about to drift off to sleep, and then suddenly came across two pages that perked me right up: [http://www.buraks.com/azoth/](http://www.buraks.com/azoth/) and [http://philippe.elsass.me/2010/05/as3-fast-memory-access-without-alchemy/](http://philippe.elsass.me/2010/05/as3-fast-memory-access-without-alchemy/) . Suddenly I was wide awake. When it comes to handling certain crazy requirements, the speed of reading from and writing to a ByteArray in FlashPlayer just can't keep up. These past couple of days [Xu Can](http://www.asblog.org/) got pushed into having to hunt for some heretical, unofficial hack — and he actually found one. I'd heard before that haXe is so efficient because its author found the low-level interface FlashPlayer 10 provides for Alchemy, but for various reasons I never went and used haXe. Seeing these two pages showed me yet another trick — turns out they're all wares from the same circle. All three of them found the “back door” FlashPlayer 10 opened for Alchemy in order to boost performance at a low level.

Carving a cutout (a circle or ellipse) out of a large dark shadow: once a sub-shape cache has been built, bitmap channel subtraction is cheaper than drawing a Shape with blend mode ERASE — but buil...

Bookmark this award-winning game, Monster Tower Defense — A novel tower defense game themed around monster evolution, putting your strategy, raising, and prediction skills to the test. It’s currently an early access version — races like the Star Spirits and the Undead will be showing up later, so stay tuned! Basic controls: W, S, A, D to control direction, left mouse button to attack, E to devour, F to cast a skill, R to spend 500 gold to restore 2000 HP to your base, ESC to cancel during the tower-building phase, and to upgrade a tower just click the icon of a tower you’ve already built.

Today I discovered that in jQueryMobile’s listview, to link to a page in the same directory with the mobile style applied, you must use ./xxxx.html instead of xxxx.html. Otherwise, the target ...

A few days ago NASA’s press conference got a lot of people intrigued — guessing 2012 along with NASA, and the next day it turned out they’d only announced a 30-year-old black hole. I was hoping for something new and exotic — no such luck, huh. Just as I was about to put the NASA suspense thing behind me, today I came across this video — the Gulf of Aden stargate opening. Holy crap, has modern technology really come this far? Can all those sci-fi speculations actually come true in this century? Is it a relic of ancient wisdom or the product of modern technology? Psychic warriors and a whole pile of other mysteries have netizens speculating.

Team Introduction This team is a group of game development professionals who came together after working on three products across two companies. l Team strengths: 12–36 months and more than three products of working together; solid rapport, workflows, and development habits. (The longest-serving member has over 35 months of joint development behind them; the shortest, no less than 12 months)

Just discovered that Flash’s DisplayObject/getBounds can’t work out the correct size in a tween that contains only vector graphics — it always returns the shape region from the previous keyfra...

Problem description: After switching systems, I found that I’d moved to the new Chrome 6. I wanted to use the debug version of the flashplayer plugin, so I installed “flashplayer 10.1 plugin debug” as usual. Once it was installed, I restarted Chrome and opened http://www.flashplayerversion.com/ and saw that the version was the latest one — but it wasn’t the debug version. That struck me as odd. Later I went into the Control Panel and uninstalled the flash plugin outright, but Chrome could still play flash! It turns out that both Chrome 5 and Chrome 6 ship with flashplayer built in, and it’s the latest version. That’s a good thing in itself, but for flash developers what’s needed is the debug build of fp, so you have to find a way to swap Chrome’s built-in fp for the debug version.

Problem description: After switching to FDT4 M3, I pointed the workspace straight back at its old location, and of course a fair number of errors showed up that needed fixing. One of them, though, ...