Flash | Retrospective

My new truck came in and I just got back from picking it up at the Toyota dealership. I ordered it about a month ago from Toyota and had some accessories added on while at the factory.

I watched the Hacking Democracy movie tonight. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it, it’s a very interesting movie that explores the security vulnerabilities of electronic voting machine software, in particular, the software from Diebold. I’m not much into the whole conspiracy theory stuff, but I was very intrigued by […]

Over the last few years, there has been a horrible, ever-increasing trend, of companies patenting, or buying companies that hold patents that are vague and generic and then going after the people with money who have already implemented technologies.

I haven’t been very diligent with my blog posts over the last few months.  I’ve switched jobs, been busy, and a bit lazy as well.   So here is the quick catch-up. 
I had been working at MGM MIRAGE in their graphic arts department as a senior Flash designer working on their electronic marketing.  The work was not […]

Flash playback is coming to the Sony PSP, but not sure why only Flash 6? With Flash 8 and FlashLite 2.0 out, I figured we would at least get Flash 7 capabilities… maybe Sony will fix this or maybe we can count on the PSP community.
I don’t own a PSP yet, but I have […]

Over at the UltraShock forums, they are taking suggestions for features for AfterEffects for when Eric of 2Advanced meets with Adobe to talk about AfterEffects and how it can be improved to work better with Flash.  Head over and give your input.   This reminded me of a forum discussion at FlashFilmmaker.com that I stumbled upon […]

Thanks to biskero.org for blogging about WP 2.0 being released. I just upgraded and everything went fine (knock on wood). So far, I am like the update. I hope to get some more time under the seat with WP2 later today and tomorrow and see what else is lurking.
One thing for sure […]

Google Analytics seems to be up and running now. I know many of us tried it out when it was launched this week, set up our pages, and then watched as no results came back. 12 hours, 24 hours, 36, 48 and still nothing.
Finally, last night I saw results come […]

Things have been a bit hectic the last few weeks. I finished up some work for a client, rushed out to LA for Colin Moocks ActionScript bootcamp (quick drive from Vegas), got back to Vegas in time to wrap up some other work and get the final exam written for the ActionScript class I […]

Yesterday afternoon, Dell delivered my new Dell dual-core Pentium computer. Wow — this thing is huge. We’re talking Apple G5 huge… but it is fast and quiet (normally). I was struggling with getting the Dell XPS or a BoxxTech dual AMD system (Opteron) and I couldn’t wait for the dual-core AMD X2 […]