Flex Stuff by Gilles Guillemin

Last month I already showed you how cool Flex 4’s new layout system is with my TimeMachine Layout. Pretty much at the same time I knocked together another example, the good ol’ CoverFlow but with my new gig in Paris for Keytree/SAP/Publicis I didn’t get the chance to publish it until now.

Here it is! As usual, just click on the picture to launch it and right-click to see the source.

Flex 4: CoverFlow Layout (click to Launch)

Same disclaimer as for the TimeMachine layout: it’s not optimized, some things can certainly be done a different/better way, but at least it works reasonably well and gives another idea of how easy it is to implement complex layouts with Flex 4.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas/Happy New Year!

Today, a moment of self promotion in FlexStuff.co.uk. After all, what is the point of working like crazy 7 days a week and being able to only write a short post every couple of weeks if all this hard work remains unknown? (at least on this side of the pond, those ads being designed for the US market).

As already stated here and there in this blog, I’m currently employed by a London based company named Tailgate Technologies as their lead Flash Platform programmer. And believe me, it’s no easy task to work for a start-up when the global economy has decided at the same time to go deep down the sink. And the recent news about our main competitor surely do not help either (hey, we also had our own TechCrunch article!).

Anyway, we try at Tailgate to create a new type of online ads that actually try to be (at least a little bit) helpful and informative and not just some random stroke inducing stroboscopic animations as most of online ads have turned to be nowadays. It seems sometimes that “creatives” just took Flash only for its sole name and thought that flashing was somehow its one and only function.

The result of this? Nobody seems to give a bloody crap anymore (to quote the locals ) about ads. And I’m just talking here about the most open minded, the others have already long activated some ad blocker, just to avoid what has become an annoyance.

And that’s when we arrive (drums and trumpets here, please) to save you all from boredom!

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