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I’ve been messing around with particles, particularly the blitted, traily kind I guess. Click on the image below to pop and watch it. Grab the source at the bottom and let me know if you do something cool with it. The particle trails you see are actually all on one bitmap that I draw to… Read More »
Status update
It’s been a while since my last update unfortunately. I’m planning on updating the site at least once a month with new projects and experiments but sometimes that’s just not possible. This time it’s because I’m an alpha tester for Metaplace, and I’ve been putting most of my free time into that. Check out the… Read More »
Scaling dynamic text in AS3
Recently I’ve had the need to scale a dynamic text field which was fed by XML. Readability after scaling was not important, but it did have to look good (it’s for a full Flash site). However, scaling the MovieClip that the text field was in would cause some pretty chaotic behavior with the text —… Read More »
Endless pages
I’m not sure who came up with the idea first, but the crazy kids at Humanized gave me the inspiration to try this out for myself with jQuery. You can read their rationale for it, but the basic concept is that the “Next page” nav links are pretty ridiculous now considering how easy it is… Read More »
AutoScroll
AutoScroll is a quick prototypage to see how well this alternative to the scrollbar would work. There’s an invisible scroll area at the very top and bottom of the page. When the user hovers their mouse over one of the areas it scrolls the page in that direction. Faster scrolling is achieved by moving the… Read More »
