http://blog.hiddentrak.com Great Mistakes Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:58:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Flash Player 10 has been released this morning and I'm sure there are a million posts/examples about all the new features. I think a small thing that is great from a designer's point of view is the addition of ligatures into the text handling. These can add ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=31 I'm working on a pretty big project and that meant coming in this weekend. While I was wrapping up the day I saw this link to SLAP's site about pool skating and wanted to share it. Reminded me of how fun the Asbury Pool was and just how ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=29 Skateboard graphics are a constant source of creative inspiration. This seems to be an interesting documentary about the history and progression of skateboard graphics. I'm not personally one to collect decks for the sake of collection, I would much rather skate one/break one and save it for the ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=27 Found this cool interface for Flickr by NYC design studio Bond Art + Science. Put up a demo of it for my photos and I really enjoy it. If you have some time head over to their website and also download the BlowUp files. http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=26 If you have any Processing experience, please look the other way on this post. This is a very simple test from someone with little Processing experience. I think the key thing to take away from this is how easy it is to get something going. If you ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=22 Just having a little fun with some of the Sound features available in Flash. Download source. * Remember you will need to modify the source to point at your .mp3 file since I could not distribute the song. http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=21 One of my last projects at MLB Advanced Media was a Jabber powered chat client built in Flex. The interface consists of mxml components, several custom Flex components (like the crowd view), and some Flash content converted over to Flex with the Flex Component Kit. It uses the as3 XIFF ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=15 If you're programming experience is primarily based in the world of Flash, you may not have had much exposure to regular expressions. With it's inclusion in AS3, we now have some very powerful, and helpful tools available to us. I just wanted to post a quick snippet of ... http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=17 I was just fooling around with the curveTo method of the drawing API and some simple trig. Click here or on the image to see it in action. You can drag the boxes too. http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=18 http://blog.hiddentrak.com/?p=19