Category Archives: Technology

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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Making Tools Presentation at Flash and the City

In case you didn’t get to see my Making Tools presentation this year (or if you tried to see it at RIA Unleashed and suffered through my technical difficulties), you can now see it on line: http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/12/1/Conference-TV-Flash-and-the-City-Making-Tools You can hear … Continue reading

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Kindle Fire First Impressions

I got my Kindle Fire last night and wanted to post some initial impressions of the device. First of all, I love it. Great form factor, feels very solidly built, great display, does all that I need it to do. … 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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Beta Culture

Technology has entered a phase where pretty much everything is a beta. Take GMail. The first beta appeared in 2004. It remained in beta status until 2009. In fact, people so missed the “BETA” label on the GMail logo that … Continue reading

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March is JavaScript Month. And… Introducing WireLibJS

Over the last few weeks I’ve taken a deep dive into JavaScript and Canvas. It’s been a blast, a real eye opener and paradigm shift. As with a lot of other Flash developers, whenever I’ve thought about “HTML5” I’ve thought … 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

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, Technology | 34 Comments

SWFSheet – create sprite sheets from SWFs

[EDIT: Just released a beta of SWFSheet 1.1 here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2948] [EDIT: Version 1.1 final released: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2977] SWFSheet is a program I created in most of a day back in late December. I finally polished it up this week and it’s … Continue reading

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C, Silverlight, Technology, Windows Phone 7 | 56 Comments

Hello DreamHost

As of now, this blog, as well as Art From Code, MinimalComps, Wicked Pissah Games, and my personal site (and a few sites run by my wife), are now hosted on DreamHost. Previously, I’d been using Media Temple since 2006, … Continue reading

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