FITC Amsterdam – Day 2 in a Nutshell
Started out the day with Andre Michelle’s “Boing-Bumm-Tschak (Flash 10 Sound API)” presentation. Very beautiful stuff. The biggest thing learned here is that manipulating sound is not so different from manipulating graphic items. That is, reverb is nothing more than a basic “easeout” formula and flanging is just elasticity applied to sou
FITC Amsterdam – Day 1 in a Nutshell
Just got back to the great loft apartment I’m staying at in Amsterdam and thought I’d jot down some impressions thoughts and notes of Day One of the sold out FITC conference while they’re still fresh in me little noggin. First up was the Keynote opening featuring Serge Jespers, Lee Brimelow, Mike Chambers, and Paul […]
CSS Background-Color && Flash TextFields
So, the other day I needed to add a background color to a TextField in Flash. I don’t mean a rectangular area of color such as the backgroundColor property of a TextField would produce, but irregularly sized rectangles that varied by the width of each line of text in the dynamic TextField. Basically, I needed […]
R.I.P Lux
Another great American hero gone on February 4. Lux Interior of the Cramps, dead of a heart condition at the age of 62 (God, I’m old)… Rolling Stone news article here and great live video here. Sad day…