Helmut Granda
learning through interaction
Brendan Lee talks with Cliff Hall (pureMVC)
Mar 22nd
Brendan Lee takes the time to talk to Cliff Hall
Covert mov files to flv with ffmpeg
Feb 5th
The shell script below will take files from the folder you are running it from and convert all “mov” files to “flv”. The script can be updated to use the same file name as flv name. Since this is not for production but only for testing the name for the flv that I am using [...]
How long does it takes you to get ready for something?
Nov 11th
Does getting ready to get things done get in the way of getting stuff done? Although this video emphasizes procrastination I would say that the person represented in the video was getting things done, but not the things that were supposed to get done.
Next time you start a new task ask yourself, Is this really [...]
TextMate: Tabbing through functions with macros
Nov 7th
One of the features that I would like to have as a default for TextMate is the ability to navigate through functions with the keyboard rather than having move back and forth between the keyboard and mouse or scroll line by line with the down/up keys.
Since the feature is not available (or at least not [...]
How to make sure your banners play only for a certain period of time
Nov 7th
It is almost a standard to allow banners to play for only 15 seconds after they have been loaded into the browser. If you are creating your animations on the timeline you can very well know how long the banner is by looking at the frames you are using for a specific banner. But if [...]
TextMate current block folding
Nov 7th
Having the ability to fold blocks of code in TextMate can be a great time saver. Specially if you are working on a rather large file and you are trying to concentrate only in one area of your code.
You can activate block folding by pressing F1 and this is how the content is going to [...]
Mike Chambers asks: Are you still using ActionScript 2? (or 1)?
Oct 26th
Mike Chambers posted the question on his site: Are you still using ActionScript 2? (or 1)?
Many people have placed their 2 cents to answer and I wanted to take a stab at it:
Short Answer : AS1 = No, AS2 = Yes.
Long Answer: I haven’t touched AS1 for years now and I haven’t had a reason [...]
Flash Player 9 Debugger “solution to random crashing”
Sep 12th
My main Flash Player for testing content online is always the latest debugger version (in this case the current player is flash 9). For some odd reason it always crashes on random sites on PPC but Intel it works flawlessly. After many installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, installing again.. I figured I would give a try to [...]
Papervision AS2 reflected bitmap
Aug 12th
I have been working on a paper vision in AS2, as you know the AS2 version was dropped as soon as AS3 was out so many of the PPV2 features were never applied to the first version. Anyways, if you ever wanted to portrait a bitmap on one side reflected directly from the library, this [...]