Writing
I write about design, learning to code, making, being a generalist, bootstrapping, launching products, and working on side projects while living your full life.
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The Schoolyard Is Coming!
Read: The Schoolyard Is Coming!My very first Facebook game, The Schoolyard, is launching next week, Tuesday the 28th! Send me a message if you’re interested in becoming a beta tester. All volunteers receive 5 Extra Credits and one exclusive item only available to beta testers!
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Infographic Goodness
Read: Infographic GoodnessI love infographics, and Information Is Beautiful has some of the best I’ve seen. Some highlights: If Twitter was 100 People The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions Walled World
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The New Freelancer: Launching Your Virtual Company
Read: The New Freelancer: Launching Your Virtual CompanySo you’re ready to head off into the awesome world of freelance development: be your own boss, call your own shots, hire people, fire people, and rake in the money. The new freelancer is the virtual company: a team of individuals, each with their own…
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RAD Model View Controller Demo
Read: RAD Model View Controller DemoAbout RAD The Rapid ActionScript Development package lets developers get up and running with a lightweight flexible framework quickly and painlessly. Many developers are already using a model-view-controller framework. The RAD MVC package supplies a very clear set of abstract classes that will help any…
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RAD Updated
Read: RAD UpdatedI’ve updated the Rapid ActionScript Development package on Google Code. This update includes greater flexibility for the model-view-controller classes. This makes it even easier for both designers and hard-core programmers to use the framework. Stay tuned for a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the…
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Wrapping Long Lines of Text in CSS
Read: Wrapping Long Lines of Text in CSSI recently came a cross a very tricky issue where an extremely long URL needed to be displayed in a narrow DIV. Browsers refuse to wrap this line, as there is no logical place to break the text. If you don’t have the luxury of…
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Rapid ActionScript Development Package Released
Read: Rapid ActionScript Development Package ReleasedThe RAD package has been born. This is a collection of ActionScript classes that I use often in my work. In the future I plan on posting a number of tutorials with examples of their use. I’ve added the full MVC design pattern and several…
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3D Flash Card Flip Tutorial
Read: 3D Flash Card Flip TutorialOne effect I need to use often in my Flash applications is a very simple card flip. The best way to simulate this effect is to use Papervision3D to make a realistic three dimensional illusion. For this demonstration we’re going to create a playing card…
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Consolidation Is Coming
Read: Consolidation Is ComingThe trends are everywhere. Facebook just bought FriendFeed. Google Voice is currently in beta, and Google is launching Wave later this year. What do all these tools help to do? They consolidate multiple streams of information into one thread. With FriendFeed, you can now see…
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Lifehacker Lists the Five Best Video Players
Read: Lifehacker Lists the Five Best Video PlayersRecently, Lifehacker asked its readers to recommend their favorite video player. Not surprisingly, all of the resulting players are free. All of them run on Windows, and two of them run on Macs. I’ve been using VLC on both platforms for years. With all the…
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Tag Cloud Is Up for craigphares.com
Read: Tag Cloud Is Up for craigphares.comI’ve finally gone through and tagged each post in my blog. This should make it much easier to explore posts according to interest. Currently, the most popular posts are Flash and Games.
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craigphares.com Redesign
Read: craigphares.com RedesignThe redesign is complete! Links to new work are up.