Monthly Archives: April 2007

Makibishi Comic

Makibishi Comic is a beautiful, silly, and very strange Flash based puzzle game. The objective is to find the 5 ninjas who are hiding from you by clicking through riddles. The puzzles are just challenging enough and the illustration is … Continue reading

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Apollo Mail Client Version 0.3

I’m pleased to announce the first alpha release of ApolloMail, a cross-platform POP3 / SMTP e-mail client written in Apollo (obviously) in under 500K (and most of that is my gratuitous about banner). It’s just the beginnings, really, but here … Continue reading

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flex, Programming | 29 Comments

Web Design Survey by A List Apart

A List Apart, your favorite source for web standards advocacy and CSS minutiae, is conducting their own survey of web designers similar to the ones created by Aquent or AIGA. I can’t think of a good reason for you to … Continue reading

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FITC 2007 Toronto

Shout-out: say hi at FITC! I look like this.

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Hand Me That Cursor, Would You?

Today I’d like to talk about a basic technique that’s a little deceptive when migrating from AS2 to AS3: creating a clickable button from a Sprite or MovieClip. So you create a new Sprite or custom view class that subclasses … Continue reading

Posted in AS3, Flash, Programming | 19 Comments