Archive for April, 2009
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Making money from your custom Flex components
Posted on April 29, 2009 | 6 CommentsSuppose you’ve made an awesome Flex component and you want to share it with others and make a few bucks along the way. There are a few sites sprouting up... -
Should you sell it or give it away
Posted on April 27, 2009 | 9 CommentsIf you have created a nifty little custom Flex component, or AIR app, and you want to share it then you need to decide if you want to try and... -
TweepJob – find jobs or employees via Twitter
Posted on April 26, 2009 | No CommentsTweepJob.com is a free service that uses #hashtags to help track messages on Twitter. If you are looking for a job or freelance gig then just send a twit about... -
Kissing Circles
Posted on April 23, 2009 | 7 CommentsI’m playing around with ideas from the book Mathographics by Robert Dixon. On pages 190-192 he has images of what he calls Condensation drawings. I call them Kissing Circles because... -
Tracking the x/y position of the cursor in a TextArea
Posted on April 21, 2009 | 13 CommentsSuppose you wanted to track the position of the cursor in a TextArea. You might need to do this if you wanted to provide some contextual information to the user.... -
Exploring Math.atan2( y, x )
Posted on April 21, 2009 | 5 CommentsMath.atan2( y, x ) is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. Seriously, if you need to get from point A to point B then you’ll want this little gem in... -
Creating pseudo random numbers
Posted on April 20, 2009 | 4 CommentsOn a recent project I needed to create graphical patterns that looked random but in fact had to be deterministic based on a few seed numbers. As an example think... -
Favorite Flex Builder shortcuts
Posted on April 12, 2009 | 12 CommentsBecause my brain is filled with movie quotes from Star Wars, Aliens, Ghost Busters, etc I find it difficult to remember the things that are actually useful, like the syntax... -
Exploring BitmapData and webcams
Posted on April 12, 2009 | 1 CommentI’m reading A33 – AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation – and having fun making a mess with BitmapData and webcams. view source The inspiration for... -
Explorer for BitmapData.perlinNoise and BitmapData.noise
Posted on April 5, 2009 | 5 CommentsIf you need to add some random noise to your BitmapData then you have two options: myBitmapData.perlinNoise which is sort of smooth gradiations of patterns. Sort of looks like a...
