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« November 2003 | Back to Main | January 2004 »
Completely Free Hosting Excerpt: A friend of mine pointed me to a company that is giving away 3 years of hosting completely free to generate word of mouth promotion (like this) until Jan 21. I've read through some of their FAQs, and it seems totally legit...
Posted @ 10:41 AM by Grant
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FF Film Festival Nominations Open Excerpt: Nominations for the FFSF2004 Flash Film Festival are now open. If you have any cool projects that you've developed recently, and would like to get your hands on a wicked-cool orange rubber arrow, go enter yourself!
Posted @ 01:21 PM by Grant
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Class locations in AS2.0 run-time Excerpt: A look at where AS2.0 classes reside at run-time, how to avoid overwriting them accidently(!), and a handy function to dynamically create AS2.0 class instances from a string name - even those in packages.
Posted @ 12:37 PM by Grant
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Upcoming presos: FitC, FFSF, NAIT, UofA Excerpt: I received confirmation today that I will be speaking at Flash In The Can 2004 (Toronto) in early April. I will be speaking on coding production-friendly ActionScript 2.0. Rather than rehash syntax, I will focus on how to actually apply...
Posted @ 05:54 PM by Grant
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[code] getFirstValue and addObjectPath Excerpt: Here are a couple of simple but useful functions from the FlashOS2 utility library: getFirstValue returns the first non-null value passed to it, addObjectPath intelligently creates a path of nested objects.
Posted @ 06:59 PM by Grant
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FLAws: Forms Excerpt: Forms in Flash are a little like the apple in the garden of Eden - tempting as hell and nice to look at, but all hell breaks loose when you try to eat 'em. It doesn't help that the whole time this little snake called Macromedia is whispering in your ear, telling you to take a big bite.
Posted @ 12:46 PM by Grant
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Gadget inspector. Excerpt: A quick look at some wicked fun stuff for men (and women?) who don't quite wanna grow up (and have a little cash to burn) - might want to make this your spouse's homepage with Christmas aroudn the corner.
Posted @ 02:14 AM by Grant
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The Internet is sh!t Excerpt: When I first got into web design (a whopping 9 years ago), everything was new, everyone was excited, and I was kept in a constant state of awe as the modern "rich" internet emerged ... maybe I'm just getting old and jaded, but lately that awe has receeded.
Posted @ 12:02 PM by Grant
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FLAws: FP7 drops click events Excerpt: To begin the FLAws series, I'd like to shine some light on what looks to be a major Flash Player 7 bug and offer some work-arounds.
Posted @ 12:55 PM by Grant
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FLAws: Prologue Excerpt: I have decided to start a new series of posts called "FLAws", outlining F04 issues I have encountered, with suggestions and workarounds ... I will make my first official FLAws post later today with a description of a Flash Player 7 bug that has caused me a lot of grief.
Posted @ 03:33 AM by Grant
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