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3 months of .NET, PHP and a new job in Portland.

Thursday, March 10th, 2011 Posted in Blatherings, Design, Development | Comments Off

Has it really been 3 months? Yeah, I guess it has; almost. It's been crazy, really crazy. I have been busier at work than I have in almost 2 years, which in this case was long overdue and much needed. ...

Why developers suck more than Flash

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Design, Development, flashFoo | Comments Off

Flash has always been an easy target. It doesn't matter if you are still quoting Jacob Nielsen's 10 year old shellacking on Alertbox, or if you just can't get past the still (unfortunately) present skip intro button, Flash is the ...

Better rounded corners in Flash

Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, flashFoo | Comments Off

This is probably the simplest thing in the world, but I still see the effects of it not being used all over the place, and honestly I'm still guilty of forgetting it sometimes too. You know the scenario, you're building the ...

Camouflage pattern generator

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Design, Development, flashFoo | 3 Comments »

I've been on a pretty good run the last several days as far as a creative streak at my day job. Working through several new designs for banners, product animations and wallpaper designs. One of these led to the idea ...

Create your own fractals with Ruby Fractal Library 1.2.0

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in art, Design, Development, Geeking Out | 3 Comments »

The newly updated version of the Ruby Fractal Library lets you get your fractal geek on while simultaneously getting your web geek on with Ruby. I haven't had a chance to get into this yet, or even Ruby for that ...