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Started full time gig with Yahoo

Michael Connor — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:06:50 +0000

I took a full time job with Yahoo in the Ad Technology department in Jan. It’s the largest company I’ve ever worked for by far. I’m on a small team of smart cool folks. We bring in a lot of revenue for the company. I started the same day as the new CEO, Scott Thompson.

Shooter Game

Michael Connor — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:38:27 +0000

This a silly little shooter game. Code based up on the Canon Macro Language.

Veins!

Michael Connor — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:59:35 +0000

Using Grant Skinner’s Vein Manager class… so pretty.

Windows 3.1 like screen saver

Michael Connor — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:13:03 +0000

Back in the day, this is how our screens were saved. Code sample available up on request.

Mind Mapping

Michael Connor — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:14:29 +0000

I found a great affordable Mind mapping app – MindNode. I was first introduced to the concept of mind mapping by the Bee Collective – a group of activist that would go into poor and underserved communities to map out there hopes, dreams, desires, history, challenges. It’s a really powerful and fun process. MindNode has [...]

2011 Cross-country Tour Comes to an End

Michael Connor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:01:33 +0000

back in NYC

Announcing Cloud Swing, Inc.

Michael Connor — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:30:48 +0000

Cloud Swing, Inc. is my newly formed S-Corp. This will allow me to take on ‘corp-to-corp’ work and hire employees. We are open for business. Our specialties are Flash Development and mega art project ninja services.

Notes from talk at FlashCodersNY on VPAID

Michael Connor — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:20:26 +0000

Last night I spoke at the FlashCodersNY weekly meeting about the VPAID api. Below are some post-talk links and comments. VPAID VAST All that VPAID business I discussed last night is in the Open Video Player (OVP) code library. OVP is a very small library of code that is helpful for putting together video apps. [...]

Simple Flash Game Demo

Michael Connor — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:42:38 +0000

This is a very simple demo of game coding skills. I used my RandomTile Class that I wrote in 2009. This class places tiles on a grid randomly (or not) and allows you to designate parts of the grid to be off limits so that no tile is placed in those areas.

What is a Flash Developer?

Michael Connor — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:10:28 +0000

That would be me on the right.