Playing with Flex 4 Gumbo
March 16 2009 by 
Bo Carlson
So I downloaded the Flex 4 SDK recently to play with the new 3D and file I/O features of Flash Player 10. I wanted to build a very simple cover flipper, here's what I came up with:
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It ended up being far easier than I thought due to the perspectiveProjection class that allows you to apply perspective to any display object. The only real issue I'm running into now is how to get the tiles to overlay. I've tried using the z position, but the actual layering still seems to be dependent on the child order, which makes things much more complicated. Still a cool effect once I can get all the bugs ironed out.
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March 14 2009 by Bo Carlson
BoCarlson.com is up and running! Recently I was bidding on a car dealer website and needed a demo. They wanted a dealer locator map that allowed the user to enter a zip and find car dealers near them. I didn't get the contract, but I liked the map so much I decided to finish it out. While it's not quite complete yet the basic zip locator functionality is working and the email form validates fields.
Very spiffy! Locations are fed in through a MySQL database using Coldfusion remoting. Next up on the todo list: hook up the e-mail form and build a simple CMS into the map so locations can be created directly from the map. Keep checking back for more updates.
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