Monthly Archives: September 2008

IRL Update – Mims H. Wright is moving to LA

Posted on September 15, 2008 by

After six years in Brooklyn, New York, Mims H. Wright, awesome Flash developer, is moving to Los Angeles, California where he will continue doing what he did before only this time with more sunshine. Moving day is 9/26… if you’re … Continue reading →

Posted in In Real Life, News | 3 Comments

Discussion: How best to benchmark Flash?

Posted on September 13, 2008 by

While checking out Grant Skinner’s new tweening engine, gTween, I was bothered by one small phrase… gTween is a small (4.5kb), fast (1500 instances, 0.5s duration, ~25fps), instance based tweening class, with a huge number of options and capabilities. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Discussion, Flash | Tagged , , , , , | 7 Comments

Understanding Comics Chrome

Posted on September 12, 2008 by

The launch of Google’s new browser, “Chrome” has a lot of people talking. Rather than bog us down with boring technical details, Google have hired acclaimed comic book artist and author of “Understanding Comics“, Scott McCloud to explain the new … Continue reading →

Posted in News, User Experience | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

See Mims present KitchenSync at Singularity <head> web conference!

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

I’m honored to announce that I will be presenting at the <head> web conference (formerly called Singularity) this October 24-26th!  I’ll be talking about the basics of KitchenSync and what makes it so special. I’m very excited, not only to … Continue reading →

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Accessing named MovieClips placed on the stage in Flash CS3 while staying true to OOP best-practices

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

Each developer has a favourite IDE that he or she swears by. I’m an Eclipse man myself. However, during a project I worked on recently, I had the misfortune of diving back into development using Flash CS3, a tool that, … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Flash, Tips, Tricks, and Hacks | 8 Comments