http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog Stuff about me, my life, flash dev and some random php stuff too. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:40:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mobile phones playing music on public transport. People answering phone calls in the cinema. Is common courtesy an outmoded concept, superceded by technology? We've all sat there, angered and galled by arrogant, solipsist twats, playing tinny music from their phones. There's never a handy baseball bat when you need one, is there :) Now ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/188 Fun little (ahem) viral project for the Terrence Higgins Trust to promote awareness in HIV+ gay clubbers who indulge in recreational drugs as to their effect on whatever HIV meds they may be taking. http://drugfucked.tht.org.uk/ Another AS3 project - all a bit hack and slash, though, as time was limited and the ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/190 Finally got some down time here at work and figured I'd have a poke around in this Papervision stuff. Have always managed to stave off working with 3D in the past, but from what I'd seen of it, Papervision looked like it had made the whole process a hell of a ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/185 Took a trip down to the Gloucester Cheese Rolling event near Cheltenham yesterday. Drenched, muddied and exhausted from half-running up the hill, we managed to squeeze through the crowd to catch the last official race. There we a couple of unofficial (sans fromage) runs after that, so our voyeurism was sated ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/187 ...or so says the New York Times. http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/186 Just a note to mention so recent work for the Sony GT5 Prologue game. http://www.granturismoworld.com/ Nothing too special about this project. There's some nice, balanced HTML/Flash integration demonstrated in the expanding flash menu that sits over the other HTML/Flash main content. One nice feature is a Local Connection controlled auto-pause of the in-page ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/189 Found a nice way to use uints' default value to my advantage. Have started using them for all my identifier constants in my apps. As they default to 0 (zero) even when uninitialised, as long as I make sure all my constants have a minimum value of 1, all I ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/183 Always a particularly uncomfortable stone in actionscript's boot, dynamically loading fonts at runtime has always been difficult. Many of my projects in the past have used library fonts as runtime shared libraries from the standpoint that once downloaded, it'll be available across projects. It was never the cleanest of solutions ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/182 Was messing around today and came up with a little bookmarklet to create a new Calendar event. I'm sure it could be greatly improved upon, but for a quick click thing, it's pretty useful. It takes the Title of the page as the event and prompts you for a date/time. Haven't ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/181 An old friend of mine that i basically learned flash with - who had given up the coding life - recently emailed me to let me know that he was getting back into Flash (and AS3). We were hacking code out back in the days when the flash world was rejoicing ... http://www.tripleaxis.com/blog/index.php/archives/179