My laptop hard drive died the other day. I tried various recovery tools but I couldn't even get my bios to detect it when I connected it to my desktop. Bleh! So in addition to the cost to replace the drive, I lost a game I've been working on and some irreplacable photos downloaded from [...]

I'm not usually one to buy geeky books. I often prefer the free wealth of information provided by the interweb. The other day though, I bought the book shown below. Head First Design Patterns. Most flash books don't teach me anything new, and I don't want to buy a whole book just to learn one [...]

I've tried to research and come up with my own solutions to this age old problem. But so far my attempts have been pretty fruitless. How do you protect your published swf's from people abusing the fact that you've made them available publically?

I've recently been looking into the kind of utilities that wrap your flash movie so that it becomes a desktop application, and trying to figure out which one is best, or which one does exactly what I would want it to do. They all look pretty similar, but their features can be split into different [...]