Category Archives: Professional

Started full time gig with Yahoo

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.

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Shooter Game

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

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Announcing Cloud Swing, Inc.

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.

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Notes from talk at FlashCodersNY on VPAID

Last night I spoke at the FlashCodersNY weekly meeting about the VPAID api.

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MySpace Face Recognition App

I was called into complete a Face Recognition Flash app for MySpace last week.  It was a promo for the Black Eye Peas. After you give permission for Flash to turn on your camera, it locks in on your face (center your face for this) and then song begins. Cute 8bit art gets blasted on [...]

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Cloning a MouseEvent

I’ve seen the question of how to dispatch a MouseEvent through code, but i’ve never seen it answered. I figured it out so i’ll share it with your here. Let’s say you have a BallSprite class and a RectSprite class (BallSprite being a graphic of a ball…..etc). And i want a MouseEvent.Click on an instance [...]

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Flash Micro-site: 2010 World Cup

Specialty Flash Micro-site design and development for Pappas Creative client, ActionImages.

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Random Tile class

An Actionscript 3 class I wrote the places tiles on a grid – either randomly or in order, with no overlap, and allows for a tile free zone.

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The Flash Blog » Flash Builder rebrand FAQ

The Flash Blog » Flash Builder rebrand FAQ.

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Frustrating FireFox bug with ExtnernalInterface – resolved

Looks like I had a problem with my JavaScript. I need to add: var swfDiv = document.getElementById(‘swfDiv’); Checks out now in FireFox 3.5 mac, FireFox PC (version?), IE 8 on the pc. <script type="text/javascript">         function putFlashOnTop() {                 var swfDiv = document.getElementById(’swfDiv’);     [...]

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    Rocket 9 is the personal and professional online presence of Flash developer and citizen Mike Connor. Cloud Swing, Inc. is our software development shop.