Robert Penner have created AS3 Signals, an awesome open-source project, that will make you re-think the way you approach events in all of your future projects.

You can watch a video tutorial here or copy past this link to see it in full screen ( http://pv3d.googlecode.com/files/intro-to-as3-signals.mp4)

For more info on AS3 Signals, check out http://wiki.github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals/ and join the google group.

Download the swc: as3-signals.swc

After the Mouse Gesture recognition, Didier Brun aka Foxy is currently working on a voice recognition library based on the Flash Player 10.1 Microphone new feature.

More infos here.

The new SWFAddress has just arrived !

Here is the changelog :

• New INTERNAL_CHANGE and EXTERNAL_CHANGE events.
• Support for parameter arrays.
• Improved IE8 support.
• Fixed IE initialization issues.
• Fixed browser communication issues with AS2/AVM2 on Mac.
• Fixed URL decoding for AS1 and AS2.
• Fixed handling of swfobject.createSWF.
• Workaround for WebKit bug 20355.
• Frameset support and corresponding sample.
• All methods dealing with parameters and query strings no longer return empty strings.

More infos

download it

Good news for flash developers ! Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash Platform.

They enabled this by using the Low Level Virtual Machine and created a new compiler front end that allowed LLVM to understand ActionScript 3 and used its existing ARM back end to output native ARM assembly code.

With the upcoming Flash CS5 we will able to create iPhone applications using Actionscript 3 and the Flash IDE (Flash CS5)!

For more infos :

Read original entry here

Read the developers’ FAQ

Richard Galvan and Mark Anders present the new Abobe Flash Professional CS5 “Viper” at Flash on The Beach 09 !

Small test with YUI and a small game..

Just check it : http://dev.makemepulse.com/yui_megamanv1/

Motivated by the very cool 3D pixel editor Q-BLOCK by Okuyama Kazuya, Kris Temmerman of Neuro Production made a very cool 3D Pixel Engine.

At this point, the Pixel3DObjects have x, y, z, rotationX, rotationY, rotationZ properties + they  support very basic animation (gotoAndStop).

But a 3D engine wouldn’t be complete without a possibility to import external generated 3D objects, so he also made a Collada parser witch converts a standard 3D mesh to a 3D pixel object:

Today we are going to see how to make an authentication with PHP and an Active Directory LDAP (AD).

What is LDAP ?

This code sample has been tested on a Windows 2k3 server.

First time, your server need the LDAP standard connection on the port 389, it’s activate for a default creation of the AD.

Your LAMP / WAMP server also need the php_ldap extension.

I’m using the PHP features to make a connection and the authentication.

First step, make the connection to the AD server :

$host = "my.server.host.com";
//Get authentication information by login form
$myLogin = $_POST["loginAD"];
$myPass = $_POST["passAD"];
$ressource = ldap_connect($host);

PHP will connect to server on the port 389, then you have to authenticate with an AD user to access to his information.

if($ressource){
try{
      //Authentication to the AD with a windows login, password
	$bind = ldap_bind($ressource, $myLogin."@".$host, $myPass);
 
         /**
         **To get all information, its necessary to be logged.
         **It exists an anonymous mode, if you want to test only the server connection
         **Now we can get all information about this user
         */
       //$dn contain information asked by Windows server to browse the correct AD tree.
       //Here I want to browse all Users in the LDAP AD
       $dn = "CN=Users,DC=my,DC=server, DC=host,DC=com";
       /*I search email, groups and the name of the user
         *We can have many information about a user,
         *you can see all of them with removing the last argument in the ldap_search
        */
       $result = ldap_search($ressource, $dn, "samaccountname=".$myLogin, array("mail", "memberof","name"));
       //ldap_get_entries will return an array of all asked information
        $info = ldap_get_entries($ressource, $result);
        echo "
<pre>".print_r($info, true);
}catch(Exception $e){
        echo $e->getMessage();
}

I get a result like this :

Array
(
    [count] => 1
    [0] => Array
        (
            [memberof] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=my,DC=server,DC=host,DC=com
                )
 
            [0] => memberof
            [name] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => Userfirstname Userlastname
                )
 
            [1] => name
            [mail] => Array
                (
                    [count] => 1
                    [0] => user@host.com
                )
 
            [2] => mail
            [count] => 3
            [dn] => CN=Userfirstname Userlastname,CN=Users,DC=my,DC=server,DC=host,DC=com
        )
 
)