I’ve submitted a few logos for the Victors & Spoils competition on crowdSPRING. Check ’em out and vote if you like them!
The Schoolyard Is Live!
The Schoolyard is up and running! Check out the Beta version of my very first Facebook game! Contact me if you’re interested in becoming a beta tester, and receive 5 Extra Credits and one exclusive item.
The Schoolyard Is Coming!
My very first Facebook game, The Schoolyard, is launching next week, Tuesday the 28th! Send me a message if you’re interested in becoming a beta tester. All volunteers receive 5 Extra Credits and one exclusive item only available to beta testers!
Infographic Goodness
I love infographics, and Information Is Beautiful has some of the best I’ve seen. Some highlights: If Twitter was 100 People The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions Walled World
The New Freelancer: Launching Your Virtual Company
So you’re ready to head off into the awesome world of freelance development: be your own boss, call your own shots, hire people, fire people, and rake in the money. The new freelancer is the virtual company: a team of individuals, each with their own unique talents – loosely associated with each other that come together on a project-by-project basis according to the needs of each assignment.
RAD Model View Controller Demo
About RAD The Rapid ActionScript Development package lets developers get up and running with a lightweight flexible framework quickly and painlessly. Many developers are already using a model-view-controller framework. The RAD MVC package supplies a very clear set of abstract classes that will help any developer get up and running as fast as possible with […]
RAD Updated
I’ve updated the Rapid ActionScript Development package on Google Code. This update includes greater flexibility for the model-view-controller classes. This makes it even easier for both designers and hard-core programmers to use the framework. Stay tuned for a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the MVC feature of the RAD package. RAD is available as […]
Wrapping Long Lines of Text in CSS
I recently came a cross a very tricky issue where an extremely long URL needed to be displayed in a narrow DIV. Browsers refuse to wrap this line, as there is no logical place to break the text. If you don’t have the luxury of providing a shorter label for the link, and need to […]
Rapid ActionScript Development Package Released
The RAD package has been born. This is a collection of ActionScript classes that I use often in my work. In the future I plan on posting a number of tutorials with examples of their use. I’ve added the full MVC design pattern and several Papervision3D utility classes. As I go through and clean up […]
3D Flash Card Flip Tutorial
One effect I need to use often in my Flash applications is a very simple card flip. The best way to simulate this effect is to use Papervision3D to make a realistic three dimensional illusion. For this demonstration we’re going to create a playing card that will flip to the other side when the user […]