If you’ve read any of my other posts about the province of Ontario backing up the money truck, you know the score: the provincial government doles out a bunch of cash every year to the Ministry of Culture, who disperses it through an organization called the OMDC (Ostentatious Mixers of Daquiri-like Cocktails). The OMDC [...] Keep Reading

As i see it, there are two ways to approach programming in Flash with Actionscript: the right way, and the “this thing is due at the end of the week” way. Throughout my career, i haven’t enjoyed the luxury of big budgets and generous timelines. The broadcasters are cheap, the teevee producers work mostly [...] Keep Reading

The mid-term exam that i ran yesterday during the college-level Flash course i’m teaching was an absolute slaughter. Limbs flying, computers exploding, babies endangered … just an action-packed mess. It served as the perfect rationale for my recent articles on What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges (Part 1 and Part 2). These are the notes [...] Keep Reading

“Fwitter”. Deal with it. Our Pull Twitter Updates Into Flash tutorials (Part 1 and Part 2) continue to be popular! A few folks were asking how i had taken my Twitter feed and rigged it so that people’s Twitter names and links were clickable. i promised to write tutorials on demand, so here we [...] Keep Reading

This series is called “What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges?” A number of you have pointed out, on Twitter and elsewhere, that what i’m describing is what’s wrong with all colleges. But now, i want to shine the spotlight on perhaps an unexpected target, and suggest that not only are colleges flawed, but so [...] Keep Reading