Since today I’ll be working on a small one week project, something like a workshop. I’d be glad to prepare an application for realtime visualization of audio.
I love this kind of projects: you got a limited time – 7 days should be enough to prepare a small application. Game, audio or video stuff, you name it. When you work alone, you could manage your time more precisely, there’s no one who tells you what to do and what you should avoid. It’s solely your work and you can do whatever you want to – but it has to be done before the deadline, which can’t be moved in any circumstances.
This time I’ll prepare a small audio application. No business plan, no desires to sell it. No visible sight of making money of it. Just simple fun. This app was on paper for too long and this contest made me start it.
The app will mix samples in a never-ending stream of blabs. Everything will be mixed randomly from predefined settings, adjustable by you. And most importantly you’ll be able to make your very own generator by recording audio from your computer’s Line In or Microphone input.
I want to show you some of technologies I developed during last few years. GUI widgets with loadable skins, audio processing (I made few multitrack sequencers and mixers), a slice of 3D rendering. All Model-View-Controller via PureMVC.
I want to use these technologies if you’re interested to know:
- Air 2.0 beta
- Ogg Vorbis / Alchemy
- PureMVC
- Away3D Lite
- PopForge
- BulkLoader
- DestroyToday’s Scale9Bitmap (slightly changed by me)
- Greensock TweenMax
- and a small help of my libraries.
If you want to take a few lessons from ActionScript and these areas, this project is a lovely place to start. I did not tell you? Everything I am going to produce here will be licensed as Creative Commons, open for everybody. And that doesn’t apply only to source codes, I am talking about assets, source PSDs, illustrations, samples etc.
So if you’re interested in what I am going to come up with in next 6.5 days, enjoy me on the voyage. It will be a rather fast, but very fun trip. Watch this place and Twitter stream at @mumbojumbot.
Update
MumboJumboT project is done. Read more here.
IntelliJ IDEA Refactoring Updates.
As you may know, IntelliJ IDEA employs one of the best refactoring features you can meet in an IDE. Now the beta version 9.0.3 EAP adds something what amused me so much, that I decided to mock a small strip below.
It’s easy: when you have a variable expression you want to extract, you can use “Introduce Variable” refactoring feature. Now I noticed the last EAP is even able to find ALL similar expressions and replace them at once. Click the image below to understand what I am talking about.
IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 Introduce Variable features Click the image to see the full resolution mockup.
I really dig IntelliJ IDEA. And even I am 7/24 user, I still find new features which blow me away. If you’re unhappy with your current ActionScript IDE of choice, you should try IDEA today.