Flash

Last weekend I took part in History Hack Day. I’ve been wanting to reboot the Computus Engine for a while and what better excuse than this. As a Hack Day…

I had an email this evening about parsing Facebook timestamps in Actionscript 3. The format for timestamps is defined in RFC3339 which as I’ve discussed previously, is a profile of…

photo credit: Marc Thiele Every September the UK seaside town of Brighton plays host to a vibrant celebration of creativity and technology. Now in its fifth year Flash On The Beach…

The next few months are gearing up to be a bit of a roller coaster. I’ve been working on a couple of projects that I’ll finally be able to talk…

There were lots of new feature announcements at Adobe MAX this year but one of the most exciting was support for multi-touch in Flash Player 10.1. This along with the…

I’m a great believer that organisations take on the personalities of their founders. This is certainly true of Flash on the beach, an annual gathering of creative and technical innovators…

I’ve been messing around with a lot of social API’s recently. Most of the common ones have their own AS3 wrappers although often these are authored by someone else. The…

Well I had “the conversation” this morning and it looks like my employer will be making a big round of redundancies next week. I don’t tend to talk about work…

Open Knowledge Conference 2009 A few weekends ago I gave a short talk about The Computus Engine at the Open Knowledge Conference in London. It was interesting to attend a…

The demo above attempts to locate your current position on the earth. I can’t take any credit for the 3D stuff as I based it on Andy Zupko’s great post…