Beautiful Code asks well-known (and not so well-known) programmers to discuss the most beautiful piece of code they know. From the preface: For some, it lives in the small details of elegantly crafted software. Others find beauty in the big picture — in how a program’s structure allows it to evolve gracefully over time, or [...]
Optimizing vector artwork in Flash is usually the last thing on an illustrator or animator’s mind when they’re drawing in Flash. Unfortunately, when all the artwork is done and it’s time to get it ready for the web, it can be pretty daunting to think about going through the FLA and doing Modify > Shape [...]
One problem I always run into when developing a game in Flash is how to tell when a timeline animation is finished. The quick and dirty solution is to put some callback functions on a frame (or two or three) on the MovieClip’s timeline. This works well for simple cases, but gets messy quickly. And [...]
Drupal has been our choice of CMS since James Walker worked with us to build terminus1525.ca. Ashok Modi is our very own Drupal guru and recently undertook a major project in porting the Zimmer Twins site from Drupal 4.6 to Drupal 6.0. Ashok will be giving a bit of ‘behind-the-scenes’ tour of the process involved in [...]