Reposted from a Yinyuetai MV. This MV is seriously impressive! Can anyone name all the famous paintings featured in it one by one?

Ever since news of HTML5 got out, the new waves have been pushing the old ones forward, and more and more people have started paying attention to HTML5. From last September until now, I’ve read quite a few articles arguing that Flash will be replaced by HTML5. Recently I came across another one, “With HTML5, How Much Farther Can Flash Go?”, and it struck a nerve: http://blog.csdn.net/cping1982/archive/2010/02/23/5321010.aspx Thanks to the author Pengling Sanqian for sharing these valuable thoughts — the article is well reasoned and well supported. Having read it, I’d like to add a few personal points. 1. Times Have Changed — Flash Won’t Necessarily Repeat Applet’s FateWhether Flash lives or dies depends on many factors, and there’s no need to compare it to Applet. The historical context and user demands have all changed, so the old lessons no longer apply. True, Flash’s shortcomings have always been there (not long ago, even the iPad — touted as offering the “best web experience” — stubbornly refused to install Flash because of performance issues, leaving many web pages unable to display fully). But whether a product is good or bad is only part of the odds of winning; operations, promotion, and user demand matter just as much. A bad product doesn’t necessarily fail to make money, and a good product doesn’t necessarily make money either — there’s a certain fate in it all, and whoever wins the hearts of users wins the world.

Color composition: Suppose alpha, red, green, blue are all numbers between 0 and 255: color32 = alpha << 24 red << 16 green << 8 blue; Color extraction: alpha = color32 ...

StarCraft 2 is the RTS game I’ve been looking forward to most this year. Recent news says the open beta will be downloadable this month — I’m thrilled. Then I saw this: RT @StarCraft: #StarCraft2 beta will be released later this month! #SCUpdate

A video that came out not long ago and has been popular ever since — in its own roundabout way it speaks for players everywhere, and the last part is deeply moving.

According to the information available, the World of Warcraft movie is co-produced by Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. The director has been confirmed as Sam Raimi, the director of Spider-Man. Earlier reports had it that the Warcraft movie would be titled The Rise of the Lich King and open in 2011, and that David Wenham might play Arthas.

This article is a document translated specifically for my partner to read; since it might help some folks, I’m also posting it for reference by anyone who needs it. If it doesn’t fit your situation though, I can’t take responsibility. Also, this article was exported directly from Word (page size A3), with way too much redundant code, and I can’t be bothered to clean it up; brothers with a display resolution width below 1280 may see misaligned styling when reading, so please bear with it. Overview:The FluorineFx open source library provides a set of features for the .NET framework, implementing FLEX/FLASH remoting, Flex Data Services and real-time messaging. .NET frameworks supported by FluorineFxMicrosoft .NET Framework 1.1 (1.1.4322) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (2.0.50727) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (3.5.21022.8) Mono 1.2.4 (.NET framework support is backward compatible)

Today Google has finally packed up and gone home — no need to say anything more, a new era has arrived! Good thing verycd is still around, so I can download the PC version of the Avatar game right...

A: Let me tell you, there’s a website called Fans! B: What Fans? A: Just Fans! Ah! B: Which team’s? A: It’s the fans of all fans! Ah! B: -.-! What’s the URL? A: http://www.qiumi.cc B: .cc is a URL too? A: Yeah, high-tech…

Yesterday afternoon I saw the 16:50 showing of Avatar. Although I’d already watched a ton of official videos and clips, I was still deeply blown away. The beauty of Avatar is that it made an internet-addicted otaku freelancer like me suddenly loathe modern technology and Earth, and long endlessly for Pandora.

Recently I was working on Flash and needed a calendar control, but Flash’s built-in component library doesn’t include a DateChooser for AS3, and searching around turned up nothing ready-made either, so I wrote one myself for AS3. (The rendered UI is based on com.thomas.DatePicker.DatePicker.) Sharing it with anyone else who needs one for Flash development.

China Network Television (CNTV) made its debut today — go download CBOX and start watching free, fully licensed official TV. CBOX client download link: http://cbox.cntv.cn/ CBox is the most authoritative video client for watching CCTV and dozens of local TV stations from across the country over the internet. Its programming comes from China Network Television, the country’s largest online TV network — a massive library to browse at will, with both live streams and on-demand viewing.

This year there are two big movies: one is 2012, the other is Avatar. 2012 has already sounded a warning bell for everyone on Earth, and the film I’m most looking forward to next is Avatar — a movie that will get people thinking, too. Avatar, that super 3D blockbuster, opens worldwide in both 2D and 3D on the 18th of this month, and mainland China has tentatively set its release for January 2nd next year.

A puzzle game made by Tomorrow Angel Studio together with Little Sky for Ciwong Technology (www.ciwong.com). The UI and animations were done by Little Sky of Tomorrow Angel Studio; I wrote the program and the website integration. 1. Counting Blocks The shape in the Flash movie is built from several small blocks. Use your spatial imagination — count how many small blocks the shape is made of in total. Left-click the number buttons “1~9” to enter your answer; if you get it right, you earn the corresponding score. Demo link http://www.mousebomb.org/portfolio_demo/jiyi_mofang/mofang.html Screenshots

Spotted this article translated by auzn over on Tiandihui — Eaze, the newest member of the easing family. Reportedly more efficient than TweenLite and packed with features. Bookmarked. Eaze was designed to: Make tweening in Flash lightweight, eye-catching, and easy to use, Introduce the smartest syntax and event system, Deliver the best performance balance, Use as few classes as possible, with no dependencies. The result is a maximally optimized, compact little library (~4Kb for the raw engine + ~9Kb with all plugins included) with jQuery-like syntax.