Forest Giant

I’ve really enjoyed google plus these last few weeks. Now that a lot of my friends and co-workers have joined I’ve been wanting to use google’s +1 to share links. The problem is most sites don’t have this feature implemented. The only way I’ve seen to actually use the +1 button is in the google search results page. I can’t imagine searching google for a link, just to post it to my circles. So, ...

Many of you have probably noticed that the AIR 2.6 runtime and SDK have been released, but you may not know how to get it to work with Flash Builder 4. Technically, AIR 2.6 is not compatible with FB4 or the preview of Burrito yet. It looks like we should expect this integration in Flash Builder 4.5 (‘Burrito’). BUT nobody wants to wait for that, so here is a great way to start using these ne...

The AS3 Date object has some really great features, but you can definitely overlook some details that will get you steamed.

Let me start with some general background for those not familiar with dates in AS3. The Date object is not tied to some universal external web source (directly anyway); the runtime is getting the current date/time information from your OS.

So, if you change your computer’s t...

Ran across an interesting bit of code while extending a GreenSock class today.
A while loop that used i— in the place of a conditional. Which honestly didn’t make a lot of sense to me at first. It seemed like the loop would run forever; decrementing i to negative 2147483648.

…code…

Kevin pointed out that, in fact, the while loop stops when i == 0 because 0 satisfies the conditional as false.

Here...

As an avid gamer, I’m always getting ideas for new games. I’m sure I’m not alone in this — with all the gamers in the world, I’m sure someone’s already hit on game concept similar to mine before. So here’s the question: Why hasn’t my game been made? Sometimes it’s an issue of cost (either time and/or money), but in other cases, those ideas which seem so great to us at first are really just h...