I’ve always been a fan of the game Team Fortress 2. It’s a really fun game to play. There is a lot of strategy involved and a good bit of humor too. Ever since I saw this model of the pyro I’ve been wanting to get a hold of one ever since. We’ll that wait will soon be over. Gaming Heads has announced they will be creating 12 inch tall replicas of all the Team Fortress 2 characters. If you are one of those obsessed individuals you can run over to their site and get your grubby hands on a brand new 12 inch tall Heavy. Check out the crazy cool pictures of this guy.
I wonder how long it’ll be until our lives are constantly connected in a digital way such as presented in this video.
I would love to be able to help develop parts of this system in the future. But i have to say, even with all this connectivity. Their is something nice about being disconnected from it all at the same time.
This came as a nice surprise today.
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
One of the things I hate doing is managing all the different libraries I may use in a project. Luckily Dennis @ rozengain.com has made a plugin for Eclipse / Flash builder that works like a charm called the ActionScript Framework Downloader. All you need to make it work is:
- Eclipse 3.2 or greater
- SVN Command line tool
Once you have SVN all setup you can download the JAR file and place it in your Eclipse plugin folder and restart Eclipse .
To use it up first go to Preferences > ActionScript Framework Downloader and add the libraries you want to use. Then close the preferences window and navigate to the folder you want to download the libraries to. Right click on the folder and click download ActionScript framework here. Select the libs you want to download and then click finish.
That’s it. A very easy and slick plugin to manage all your library files. I’ve used it with the latest Beta of Flash Builder and it works great!
The other day while searching for a video streaming solution for flash I came across this great project called RedRocket Server. The creator, Campbell Anderson is working on creating an AS3 server. The idea is you can code up your site using basic AS3 while taking full advantage of a MySql database. Very cool stuff! you can find more details here.
