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June 06, 2006
Flexing Fashionably Late
I'm not typically one for being late, but punctuality had to be thrown out the door on this one. I guess now is as good as time as any to show people what has consumed me fully for the past couple weeks or so - the beta of my360Zone- a flex dashboard that allows you to compare achievements between friends in new ways to stoke the competitive spirit. Right now the data is static - but we are hoping for that to change soon. We have tons of additions and to us, this is merely a proof of concept for very few of the features we envision being part of the application.
I'll have lots to say about this project but first, a little bit of a background on the project. my360Zone is the result of a collaboration between Jeff Conrad and myself. If you don't know Jeff, you should. Dude is smart in that annoying smart kinda way, that you can't help but be envious of. Jeff masterminded the whole idea, and I just jumped on board.
Jeff and I collaborated digitally - we've never really met in person, unless a halo lobby conversation counts. We live in different countries. MSN, Flex, trac and svn are our friends. This project d proved to me, if nothing else, that working in a team environment for a Flex project is entirely feasible with the given tool set, if not even efficient and productive.
There is a lot to say about the development and collaboration process, things we learned and how we managed to work together which I can hopefully spread across a couple of blog entries. We learned a ton of stuff ( like skinning can be a real bitch for some things...) and it'll be nice to share that with people and share the vision of the project and its evolution.
Thoughts, comments etc always welcome. More to come as I plan to break down the process, architecture, tips and tricks etc. We're late for the derby but right on time for the vision.
Posted by bitch at June 6, 2006 02:54 PM
Comments
Cool, thanks for showing the dashboard so early.
Posted by: Chris Charlton at June 7, 2006 01:07 AM
Which Flash player does it require? I'm assuming this was built with Flex 2? I have the 8.5 player, but it keeps asking me to "upgrade" to the 8 player (via the little auto-update dialogue). I'm on a Mac, btw.
Posted by: Jed Wood at June 7, 2006 02:24 AM
This Flex 2 based application requires Flash player 9.
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First of all, skin work done with gradients applied to the standart set of Flex 2 UI components looks superb! Colours resemble XBOX 360 box itself, my360zone look very much inline with XBOX 360 UI itself.
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My question is: if you do plan to release my360Zone as a web-application later in 2006 are you concerned about penetration figures of Flash player 9 during 2006 year?
Or because Flex 2 authoring tool and your resulted application are so good, you are confident that the user will download Flash player 9 prior to opening my360Zone web page?
Posted by: JabbyPanda at June 7, 2006 09:12 AM
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