Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category

See You at FlashForward!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Hey everyone. Just a little reminder that Marc and myself will be speaking at FlashForward in Boston on this Thursday, September 20th. Our talk is entitled Designers vs. Developers: How to Avoid Fights on the Playground. We'll be hanging out the entire conference too, so if you see us, please ...

FlashForward & Books

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

We've been wickedly busy over the past couple of months. Outside of rocking our day jobs ( at Schematic & Rokkan ), we've been co-authoring a book on Adobe AIR with Todd Anderson ( of Schematic ). On top of this, we're presenting at FlashForward, Boston in September. Our ...

Crummy Freelancers, Coding Guidelines and Actionscript Libraries

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

As of late I've been thinking about just how important it may be to have some structure for fellow Flash Developers at Rokkan. Naturally, this means two things: 1) A coding standards/guidelines document, and 2) some sort of "company" Actionscript library to pull from to support the guidelines and ...

Flash + Wii?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

A couple weeks back, I got my hands on a Nintendo Wii (from Sears.com no less). I've played it to death and now I'm getting pretty bored with it... and yeah, I beat Legend of Zelda. So now what? I've been looking around at the whole premise of designing ...

Everybody Likes CakePHP

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

So a few years ago I used to have to write PHP for a few projects I worked on at my old job. I wasn't very good at it and it was all procedural. Often it included some generated code from Dreamweaver, yuck. For the past year and a half ...