Hello 2011
So 2011 is now upon us. I am very excited for all the things that are coming my way. Watching my little girl's first year of life would top that…
DVD Authoring and Adobe Encore
I am in the middle of working on a DVD for a client and there was a conversation about creating a Blu Ray disc as well. So I did a…
Preload This!
Creating a Preloader in AS3
Creating a preloader in AS3 is pretty straight forward and really should be used any time your pulling resources into an SWF at runtime and yes I know the title is stupid. (more…)
Getting rid of the WordPress Version number
One way to help secure your WordPress install is to remove the version number from your meta tags:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.0.1" />
Keep your content up to date!
I was looking around on Facebook today and after about 6 random links ended up on a website for a local marketing/media broker company. I was looking through the links…
What the Function!?
Functions (aka methods) are the bread and butter of any application. Without them you can’t do much of anything. So I thought I would show you how to write one.
A Touch of Class
As you can tell by the horribly cheesy name of this post, this one is about classes in AS3.
For me the move to AS3 also meant the move to doing everything in class files as opposed to writing it in the on a frame of the timeline.
This was very confusing and difficult for me as I was not only learning the new syntax of AS3 but also was thrown head first into event life cycle, display list issues and other things that come along with writing classes and class packages. Stuff that I had never dealt with before (or at least didn’t know I was dealing with it).
This will be the first in a series of posts on classes in Flash and I will be learning as much as you do I’m sure. So here we go.
Site is up
I have tried the blog thing a couple of times without success. I'm just too busy and really no one reads this stuff anyway. I figure since I am paying…