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I should make it a habit to post things I know I’m going to forget. For instance, here’s some info on using CSS in Flash: Supported CSS properties color | color Only hexadecimal color values are supported. Named colors (such as blue) are not supported. Colors are written in the following format: #FF0000. display | [...]

Geeks, I enjoyed reading through some of these comments. Hope you will to. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered-closed

I did a little research recently when trying to figure out the ins and outs of transferring content over to a CDN. Doing this should save both load time and money, but figuring out security issues with Flash content that loads from remote, sometimes unknown locations can be frustrating. Here’s what I’ve learned: Several things [...]

Rolled out of bed on this fine Saturday morning and strolled over to the farmers market to find that the cold had kept even the farmers in bed. Neither buyers nor sellers were out in their usual numbers. That was enough to convince me that today was best spent indoors.

I sat down last night to start thinking about how I was going to build yet another customized video player (this time with bandwidth detection) for an upcoming project. By this time I’ve got a good base of code to go off of for these types of things as it seems that every other project [...]

Just discovered this AS3 performance tester. Pretty helpful tool for those that work in Actionscript all day. Besides seeing how I can fine-tune my code, I’m learning a lot of syntax that I hadn’t seen before.

AS3 Performance Tester

I just got my invite to the DAYTUM BETA. Check out my DAYTUM page. Daytum is the brainchild of Nicholas Felton who I first read about in a Print Magazine article. He’s most well know for designing and printing an annual report on himself (see 2007). This recently evolved into Daytum, where users can track [...]

I just finished reading the first in a series of blog posts by developer Jesse Warden on Agile development practices. It’s long, but I have found it really insightful to read about how others do things to deal with the same issues we all come across. http://jessewarden.com/2008/11/agile-chronicles-1-stressful.html As I understand it, Agile development is a [...]

As some of my colleagues may know, I’m a diehard fan of Jack Doyle’s TweenLite/TweenFilterLite/TweenMax when it comes to making things animate in Actionscript. Today he introduced TweenGroup for managing multiple tweens! I’ve been coming up with my own ways for simplifying the construction of a sequence of tweens, but this utility is by far [...]