I had to concur with Wired’s article about the web dying posted a couple of days ago. After reading “both sides” as well as some of the comments, I wanted to offer my brief thoughts regarding the web, open standards, and the paradigm shift to mobile. While I think HTML is and has always been a markup that [...]
Scoring The Oregon Trail
Introduction A unit of measurement is defined as “any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.”[1] Units of measurement are critically important in associating meaning with quantities. One gallon of milk, one-hundred yards on a football field, or a thousand pages in a book are examples of a numerical multiplicity of [...]
Dangers of Drinking: Episode 4
Episode four of the animation for me and my friend’s Georgia Tech class.
Dangers of Drinking: Episode 3
Part 3 of the Experimental Digital Art class project that my friend and I made.
Dangers of Drinking: Episode 2
Here’s part two of the series that my friend and I made for our Georgia Tech class.
Dangers of Drinking: Episode 1
Here is a very short Flash animation a friend and I made for our Experimental Digital Media class.
Why you keep getting a computeSpectrum Security Error
Probably one of the worst and most frustrating bugs. Turns out computeSpectrum will NOT work if ANOTHER Flash is using audio. Meaning if you have a Flash that using SoundMixer.computeSpectrum one of those super annoying security sandbox runtime errors will pop up on the browser if YouTube, GMail, or any other Flash using audio is [...]
Ethics and Online Privacy
Online, privacy barely exists. Every page, email, and instant message can be intercepted, manipulated, and/or logged. The millions of Internet users browsing the web at this very moment may be surprised to find that their online information is not secure. The Internet’s greatest strength in accessibility is its greatest weakness in security. Web servers have [...]
Why doesn’t System.Capabilities class have browser property?
Can someone explain why Adobe put in the feature: and not something like On a game project I’m working on, the game uses key combinations such as CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y for certain features. Unfortunately, combo keys using CTRL key don’t work in Internet Explorer (but they do work in other browsers). What I want to [...]
AS3 EventManager 1.23: cleanUp method added
A major reason why some users of my EventManager class may see more memory leaks being shown than actual memory leaks is because EventManager stores all the listeners in a dictionary. If we remove a display object then technically (if weakReference is set to true) the listeners are removed for the DisplayObject and its children. Until today, [...]