Well, I certainly don’t claim to have “the” answer to everything, this post is just about why I think developing on Facebook sucks.
Is this just a lack of consistency or a “seem to be really badly developed platform” issue ? or is it something else, a frustration that comes from an ideal that I just can’t forget.
But I’ll try to be objective and I’ll start with what I think is a lack of consistency.
A very nice tip over there:
http://blog.comtaste.com/2008/11/how_to_know_who_called_my_acti.html
Well, I certainly don’t claim to have “the” answer to everything, this post is just about why I think developing on Facebook sucks.
Is this just a lack of consistency or a “seem to be really badly developed platform” issue ? or is it something else, a frustration that comes from an ideal that I just can’t forget.
But I’ll try to be objective and I’ll start with what I think is a lack of consistency.
I was looking for class that would create a really cool lightning effect for me just like that, without having to deal with mathematics and co. Useless to say that when looking for such a thing, this will most likely end as a waste of time.
Well, I was wrong. I found this fabulous piece of art over there: http://blog.oaxoa.com/2009/07/27/actionscript-3-as3-lightning-thunderbolt-electric-discharge-class/
I take absolutely no credits for what I have done as it’s a pure copy of what this guy did. I just needed to re-do it in order to understand and see …
And the very last project I worked on is a promotional website for Samsung: http://www.samsung-3dtv.be/
Samsung is now promoting their new 3D Televisions and it was a great occasion to organise an event with plenty of things to win (like this Home Cinema full featured worth +- 6300 €) and a website with plenty of things to win as well (like this Home Cinema full featured worth +- 6300 €)… yeah I’m repeating myself, but it has been discovered that nothing else can be better to actually make you memorize something …
Launched a few months ago, here is the last project I worked on: Fanta Less Serious, a Youtube channel dedicated to “less serious” stuff…
So what’s the main purpose of this website ? sell more fanta… yeah but also entertain people. This channel regroups all the best fun videos on youtube and that’s pretty great actually.
A few words on the flash development though.
It isn’t really over glowing on the website but there is a smooth displacement effect on the big buttons on the home page (and other pages as well) that …