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 […]