Category Archives: Programming

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Flash Site Experience Profile

Posted on June 2, 2008 by

This is essentially the second part to my last post. This time however, I’m concentrating on the user experience of the same campaign site (www.starbuckscoffeeathome.com) based on tracking data. I’ve used a custom-built statistics class which helped me to derive … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Flash, Programming | 2 Comments

Introduction to Flex Resource Bundles

Posted on May 9, 2008 by

Hark, Flex developers. Lend me your ears! I must take this post to implore you: use Resource Bundles! Trust me, I know, there’s a lot to keep up with these days, but if you aren’t already privy to the awesome … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, Programming, Tutorial | 13 Comments

Pixel Shading and Adobe AIF

Posted on May 1, 2008 by

Pixel shading is a feature supported on graphics hardware starting with the Radeon R200 based cards (8500-9250) and the GeForce FX series. Though pixel shading was first specified in OpenGL 1.1 and DirectX 8, it wasn’t implemented by consumer grade … Continue reading →

Posted in Hydra, Programming | 1 Comment

A review of popular tweening library (UPDATED)

Posted on April 15, 2008 by

The goal of next version of my (your) animation engine KitchenSync, is to be arguably the best and most complete library for animation and sequencing out there. To do this, I’ve spent the last couple of months analyzing the top … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Programming | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

Reader Question: Why isn’t event bubbling working

Posted on March 18, 2008 by

A reader sent me this question. Thanks in advance to Michael: i’m dispatching an event from a sprite after it fades in completely dispatchEvent(new Event(Main.ENTER_SCREEN_COMPLETE)); i’m trying to listen for to this event but for some reason it doesn’t get … Continue reading →

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