Duff beer i’m not sure why i woke up this morning feeling driven to write a Wikipedia entry on fictional beverages. A similar page already existed, but it was bare-bones and poorly organized. i tooled up a nicer looking entry, borrowing code from the excellent List of fictional music groups, and redirected the original [...] Keep Reading

Massively’s Tateru Nino has succinctly spelled out why mainstream media plays dirty pool in its coverage of “new” media in Why mainstream media hates the Internet, games, MMOs and you: Games and the Internet are ultimately perceived as a threat to mainstream media’s long-term profits and marketshare. Mainstream media doesn’t want you spending hours meeting [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: Bolded or italicized text doesn’t appear in my dynamic text box, even though i’ve included the font outlines. SOLUTION: This is a pitfall that’s existed in many versions of Flash, and it doesn’t necessarily have to do with your code. Flash treats bolded and italicized letters as separate outlines. If you have a [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: Pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to test your AIR movie in debug mode does not produce any results. SOLUTION: What’s going on is that the Adobe AIR Debug Launcher did not shut down properly when you clicked the X (close gadget) on the AIR movie you were testing. Or, if your AIR app didn’t even have window [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: Trace actions don’t appear in the output window when i test an Adobe AIR swf. SOLUTION Instead of using CTRL+ENTER to test the movie, use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to debug the movie. i was lucky enough to catch a small footnote in the AIR documentation that mentioned this bug. In case you missed it, there’s [...] Keep Reading