Author Archives: keith

wefail does it again

Posted on June 17, 2008 by keith

These guys are probably the most creative Flash guys out there. I’ve never heard of Julian Venard, but I just spent an hour on his site, listening to his music, exploring. http://www.julianvelard.com/ Once you get through it, you gotta go … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 7 Comments

CSS and the bold tag in Flash TextFields

Posted on June 16, 2008 by keith

I think I have some fundamental lack of understanding here. I’m trying to use CSS to specify how some HTML text in a text field is rendered. Specifically, I want my bold text to be a bit larger and different … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 24 Comments

Pandora may have Flash

Posted on June 10, 2008 by keith

No, not the music Pandora, this Pandora: I’ve been following this for a few months now. Looks like a really cool device. Prototypes recently released to select developers. Should go on sale this month or next. Since my wife and … Continue reading →

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I'm back!

Posted on June 10, 2008 by keith

If you’ve emailed me or otherwise tried to contact me in the last couple weeks, and thought I was ignoring you, I wasn’t. Was in rural Japan with very intermittent connectivity. I’m back now and will start digging through the … Continue reading →

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Tenori-101

Posted on May 30, 2008 by keith

Hanging out in Japan with a messed up body clock, which means I wake up at odd hours of the morning and have nothing much to do. For more on my Japan trip, see my personal blog. But the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 9 Comments

Falling Forever: Addicting Flash Game!

Posted on May 27, 2008 by keith

http://arcade.itch.com/games/falling-forever/ Nice work!

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Going underground for a while

Posted on May 27, 2008 by keith

Wednesday morning at 6:00 as the day begins… I’ll be on an airplane. That means I need to be at the airport some time around 4:00 am. That means I need to leave home around 3:00 am. That means I … Continue reading →

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Optimization. Validate my findings.

Posted on May 25, 2008 by keith

I usually code like this to begin with: [as]for(var i:int = 0; i < whatever; i++) { var n:Number = someCalculation goes here; somethingElse = n * whatever; }[/as] Then when I decide to optimize, and I'm looking to squeeze … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 15 Comments

Ribbit Interviews Chris Allen and Myself.

Posted on May 21, 2008 by keith

Chuck Freedman talked to myself and Chris Allen about the process of creating the Flash CS3 components for Ribbit. Read the interview here: http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/?p=90. If you want a chance to start using the components soon, check out http://developer.ribbit.com/blog/?p=91 And, if … Continue reading →

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StructureSynth

Posted on May 20, 2008 by keith

Another cool generative art program, for 3D. http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/index.php Actually, this is where I got the link to ContextFreeArt, as this is described as a “3D version of ContextFree”. Haven’t tried this one myself, but looks pretty cool.

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