Category Archives: General

Playing With Chaos: The Book

Well, the title gives it away, so I just need to elaborate. I had so much fun and did so much research and wrote so much code for my Playing With Chaos presentation, and it went over so well and … Continue reading

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SublimeText2 Plugin: RunBuild

I was talking to my coworker, Todd Anderson, today about running build systems in Sublime Text 2. It’s a great editor, very powerful and configurable. But somewhat of a lack of documentation on all those features. One problem we both … Continue reading

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The year they called “2011”

I end this year feeling more excited about technology and programming than I have in several years. That’s really good because for most of last year and into the middle of this year I was going through a bit of … Continue reading

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Recent Events and my non-reaction

I’ve been using Flash since 1999 or so. It’s responsible for my career and any small bit of fame and fortune I might have. Most of the people I count as friends have come from the Flash community. Flash will … Continue reading

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Design Tactics – Select Single

The other day I was coding a particular UI implementation and realized that I had coded the same thing in multiple languages multiple times. I knew exactly how I was going to go about it and did what I usually … Continue reading

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Japan

As many readers of this blog know, my wife Miranda is from Japan. Of course she has family and friends there, so the whole tragedy over there has been very much part of our daily life for the last week. … Continue reading

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Run a Half Marathon With Me (in spirit)

[Edit] So, this might have been a great idea, but too little, too late, and would really need to make some kind of “click this button and record your message” application. And maybe someone bugging people go get it done. … Continue reading

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Ubuntu and Me, Happy Together.

I tweeted today about this being my second full day on Ubuntu and it a bunch of responses from people wanting to know how I did this or that, what my experience was, etc. So here’s the story. For a … Continue reading

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Dipping the toes into Canvas

Been wanting to play with this for a while now. It’s a lot of fun, in an old school, AS1 type of way. I have a lot to learn, but was able to whip this up in an hour or … Continue reading

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SWFSheet 1.1 Final

Here’s the link. Haven’t actually added anything in quite a while, but haven’t had any bug reports or problems with it, so I thought I’d make it official.

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