Photo search with PureMVC in AS3.

April 23, 2011

Since I have promised to share a PureMVC site template a long time ago, and it is still bound to happen, I will now share another project I also built using the aforesaid framework.

This little project was built about four months ago, to solve a skill test for a Senior Flash Developer position in a London based agency. It took around 10 hours to complete during after-work time. A working demonstration is available here: http://demo.joaopescada.com/searchable-image-gallery/.

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Throwing some boxes around.

November 13, 2010

This was on my to-do list for quite some time… now I can scratch it of the list!

I’ve been willing to share source code of “real world” projects where I’ve been involved for ages! Not that I see my work as something über-awesome or anything for that matter… But the same way I’ve been lost in code and ended up finding “The” solution in a post from some random mate on the other side of the globe, so can someone find this post — and future ones — as a resource of great value. And, as a bonus, leave work on time. :)

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Notes on FlashCamp Portugal.

October 5, 2010

On October 2nd, took place the 2010 edition of FlashCamp Portugal at the auditorium of Universidade Lusófona. An event organized by AUG Portugal mainly for designers and developers working with — or just interested in — the Flash Platform.

It was my first time at this annual event, and at least one thing is for sure: I want to be back for next year’s edition!

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AS3 on PureMVC. Round One.

January 6, 2010

As referenced in the title, this article is about coding Actionscript 3.0 in a Model-View-Controller design pattern, namely the PureMVC way.

Problems don’t exist. Only opportunities for creating solutions.

A few years back, when I started on web design / development, it was a one-man show. I then started working with other developers from time to time. Two years ago, I joined a team of Adobe Flash developers, and only then I realized how many routes a single coding task can take. We all have different approaches on coding and with this in mind, I felt the need to find a standardized way of developing Adobe Flash based websites / applications.

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Era uma vez um Upload…

November 19, 2009


This post is about a portuguese event, therefore it’s written only in portuguese.

Decorreu no passado sábado, 14 de Novembro, o evento Upload – 2.0 meeting. Um evento de cariz nacional que juntou estudantes, profissionais e interessados nas áreas de Comunicação, Marketing e Relações Públicas para promover a discussão e interacção sobre a Web 2.0, a um custo acessível a muitas bolsas.

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Making time, out of tomatos.

November 10, 2009

Photo by jacki-dee @ Flickr
A few weeks ago, I had a workshop on Personal Development with @DanielSaNogueir / We Create, and found the need to manage time in a more effective way, in order to reach my goals (amongst a lot of other new and awesome things I’ve learned there — but that’s a whole new post that will get it’s 15-minutes-of-fame some other day in this blog).

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