I recently had to build a JavaScript HTML5 Canvas particle system to achieve a comet effect inside a website. I’ll be releasing the API once I clean up the code. Check out the demo in the meantime.
Jersey Shore Tech Meetup Presentation
I presented “You Already Know How To Build Mobile Apps” at the Jersey Shore Tech Meetup last night. Attendees learned how to build native mobile applications for multiple devices using alternative web technologies. You can download the presentation in PDF form here.
Six Overground Redesign
Six Overground has finally received a long overdue revamp. Check it out!
tweetndraw Is Live!
Using only the 140 characters allowed in a single tweet, what kind of art can be generated by a programmer who understands the drawing commands used by tweetndraw? Any tweets published with the #tweetndraw hashtag will be displayed in the tweetndraw gallery. All proceeds from this project will benefit high school art departments. Check It […]
Flash Papervision3D Quake MD2 Model Viewer
I’ve recently been working in Papervision3D with some MD2 avatars. Since the MD2 format was originally designed for Quake II, I figured there were no better models to use than the actual game models. I’ll be releasing the code in a thorough tutorial on how to accomplish this, but in the meantime, you can see […]
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 […]
Flow
Deceptively simple, deceptively addicting. Jenova Chen’s Flow is the result of his MFA thesis.