Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Back on the 25th of April, I posted a little something about us (Matt & me ... and Toddly Anderson) releasing a certain book entitled Adobe AIR, Create-Modify-Reuse, published by Wiley & Sons.
Well, at that time, MXNA was down, so only a few regular viewers saw it. So I figured ...
Posted in AIR, Actionscript 3, Books, Flex | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
The company I work for, Almighty (almightyboston.com), is looking for that special someone.
What would make that ideal 'special someone?' A designer / developer who has a couple years of experience. Knows AS2/OOP (AS3 preferred). Has some design chops. Would absolutely love to work on projects that involve animation, ...
Posted in Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Design, Flash, Flex, General | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Dear Google & Yahoo!,
In recent months both of you have released wonderful ActionScript libraries that allow us developers to access your mapping services. To have the same power (questionably more) as JavaScript developers is totally freakin' radical. What more can us developers ask for when giant companies give us code ...
Posted in Rants | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
In working on a project, I created a simple utility class that has this public static method. This basically takes a DisplayObject, copies it, and adds it to a new Sprite which is then returned to the caller. Simple enough. I'm sure this can be refined or done a different ...
Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Snippets | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
I'm rather annoyed right now. For whatever reason, I didn't think that determining if the user has 3 keys pressed at once would be so difficult. Attempt to press all the arrow keys that correspond to the arrows being displayed...
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and ...
Posted in Actionscript 3, Flash | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
So I just got the OK from work to go to the FITC Chicago event. I'm pretty excited because I'm actually quite interested in the sessions that are going to be happening at the one day event. Most particularly I'm looking forward to hearing Samuel ...
Posted in Conferences | 2 Comments »
