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 on [...] 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 go. [...] 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 too are [...] Keep Reading

i’ve been using Unity3D on and off for a week now. i’d burned through about a dozen beginner tutorials, and am a little overwhelmed by how much i don’t know about the engine, which enables you to create 3D games to deploy to a number of platforms, including the iPhone and web browsers. i’d look [...] Keep Reading

In this tutorial, learn how to identify when a chunk of code should be spun off into its own .as Class file. Trial by Flash This series of Understanding Classes tutorials chart my progress through unfamiliar Actionscript 3.0 territory. i am a designer-turned-coder, so everything i understand about code was learned in the School of [...] Keep Reading