Thaylin | May 13, 2010
Tyler from FCNY turned me on to a nice tip on conditional coding.
Let’s take for example we have a variable that we need to associate with another variable. For instance, we pull in some flashvars and need to check if these exist and if not give them a default value. Let’s look at a couple [...]
Thaylin | April 7, 2010
For all of those unaware of snippets, these are code shortcuts to increase coding productivity and are damn handy. For an extended idea of what you can do with these visit this blog post I ran across:
On a side note, the poster doesn’t tell you how to install CFEclipse so I’ll just touch on that [...]
Thaylin | April 22, 2009
The web seems to have quickly become a social networking extravaganza. Not to mention it feels as though all of these sites have enveloped the concept of open source like crazy.
With that in mind, Adobe has recently released a library for actionscript 3 to connect to facebook and retrieve data pretty easily.
You can [...]
Thaylin | May 10, 2008
So lately I’ve been working a lot on the flash for the Luxury Collection brand site. This latest piece I’m finding interesting though. I have a week to complete a video in flash. Normally, I would jsut say “screw it” and be lazy with the tweening. Not this time though. Mainly, because the video needs [...]
Thaylin | May 2, 2008
Today I was in need of a quick alert box but realized the mx.controls.Alert is not included in the accessible packages when creating an Actionscript project.
Well, after a bit of searching I found it was really quite easy. Though I imagine it bloats your app due to the component libraries added. Here it goes:
1. Right [...]
Thaylin | May 1, 2008
I was intrigued by yesterdays talk on this AS3 physics engine so I went looking for stuff. Apparently, on top of the APE engine for 2d there’s a 3d engine called the Wow Engine.
http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/
I’m still in the process of checking out the APE engine but we’ll see how that pans out and this WOW engine [...]
Thaylin | April 30, 2008
So today I attended my first flashcodersny meeting. It was pretty informative, though it wasn’t too indepth about the package we were discussing tonight.
It’s called APE or Actionscript Physics Engine. From the brief look I’ve had of it, it seems to be pretty cleanly coded and documented. I’ll be looking more into it in the [...]
Thaylin | April 19, 2008
So today I received my summons to serve in Jury Duty. The other month I was talking about how I think it’s important to serve as a juror and now here it is. Ugh, me and my big mouth.
Well, maybe I’ll be able to bring my laptop while I wait to be on a jury [...]
I've lived in New York for about four years now and before that lived in Detroit where I started my career at Raytheon developing E-Learning solutions. Once I moved to NYC I started with Starwood Hotels and Resorts working initially on Flash for the television and moving to the web dev team after that. I love anything that's random in terms of coding and am constantly thinking about how best to recreate the seemingly randomness of nature. When not having my face stuck in a computer monitor I try to give as much back to the community as possible by donating time to New York Cares taking kids from Queens to various fun and educational activities. I also dig cooking, good beer, and am addicted to TED.
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