Archive for January, 2008

AS3 Dynamic Speech Bubble Snippet

The static method drawSpeechBubble in the file below uses the drawing API to draw a rounded rectangle based speech bubble with a dynamic point. The side the point is on moves depending on the relative position to the bubble. It looks best if you set the point to be fairly close to the actual rectangle. [...]

Posted by Ash on January 28th, 2008

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I am not Singularity..

..until I find out what it is. But kudos to Aral for his viral marketing strategy

Posted by Ash on January 26th, 2008

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Announcing Adobe AIR in Action

For a while now I've been spending my spare time writing about AIR for an upcoming book titled "Adobe AIR in Action" published by Manning. I've had the pleasure of working with three very talented co-authors, Joey Lott, Sam Ahn, and Kathryn Rotondo. I'm psyched about the release since I think we've put together a [...]

Posted by Ash on January 24th, 2008

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