Monthly Archives: June 2006

MultiButton.as

Written by skoch. Posted on June 27, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
A new Class is born. Noah asked, “Can we make a custom Button (…so it’s easy for the designers to implement)?” I said, “Sure. You make a MovieClip with the appropriate frames and I’ll cook something up.” We had a further discussion about the requirements and what it’d need to do. That is: a custom button that will [...]

Phishing

Written by skoch. Posted on June 26, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
milnarmo: damn i’m never gonna get a fishing license milnarmo: lucky i already have my phishing license darkwing14: what? milnarmo: please enter your credit card number and expiration date to continue this conversation

Godzilla

Written by skoch. Posted on June 25, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
Jim, Diane, and James Dawson create their first short! Godzilla. Nothing short of brilliant. See it here: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2747714/

EventDispatcher

Written by skoch. Posted on June 22, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
I finally have broken through in terms of using the EventDispatcher Class in Flash. Go me. I now look at all the static classes I’ve made using the old ‘hook’ trick as old and, well, old. When I have to go into those files (all the Milton stuff, for example) I actually have a strong urge [...]

Bug Report

Written by skoch. Posted on June 19, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
we have a bug that occurs on the 31st of a month so once a month we get a bug report it gets assigned to a developer within 24 hours who then fiddles for a bit before marking it “unable to reproduce”

Technically Sweet

Written by skoch. Posted on June 19, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer Said during hearings investigating allegations of past communist associations in connection with [...]

Javascript variable to Flash

Written by skoch. Posted on June 16, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
I know this is a concept that has been around for a while but for some reason or other it eluded me the other night. I had thought it was because I am using an iframe so of course I was thrown off the ‘real’ trail for a while. Until I got some sleep and a [...]

Ask The Robot : RFID

Written by skoch. Posted on June 7, 2006. Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.
Sterling in Wired Last Sunday was the Ask The Robot show at They Frying Pan. The highlight, for me, was Meghan Trainor with 16 Horsepower. We finally got to witness what she has been preaching now, well, since I’ve known her. Object tracking. Objects have histories. Using RFID, we can track anything. Don’t fear RFID. Inject yourself with [...]