A little over a week ago, Wayne Helman posted an article proposing the use of @font-face for displaying icons. The article was well-received, but I was honestly expecting more excitement around this idea. From my view, this now seems like the way to set icons in a site. I feel strongly about the potential of this method, so I thought I would take the time to generate a font set for Iconic and to talk about why we should all be using this method for displaying icons. Read the rest of this post…
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Posted on 22 February, 2010 at 7:51am with 5 comments
The decision to offer up all the work related to this site has been as grueling as it has been rewarding. Iconic was a huge hit and has seemed to have helped a quite a few people. The next on the list of tasks was the Tumblr theme. I had previously released a theme based on the old design, but it never quite satisfied my expectations (similar to the prior design as a whole). Therefore, once the blog was redesigned, it only made sense to redesign its Tumblr counterpart – which brings me to the new Off Franklin theme. Read the rest of this post…
coordy 0.9.9 Released!
Posted on 1 December, 2009 at 11:58am with 5 comments
It has been a long way getting to this point, but version 0.9.9 has just been released for coordy. In addition, I have put up a shiny new coordy project page with demos and source code. Version 0.9.9 is a huge departure from prior versions. Thanks to the guidance of Jesse Freeman, I was able to really clean up some major architectural snags with the library. The one caveat is that updating any projects dependent on prior versions of coordy will have some issues. That said, these changes were necessary and made the library exponentially more powerful. Read the rest of this post…
Progress on the Layout Organizers Library
Posted on 21 April, 2009 at 2:41pm with 3 comments
A long while back, I released a layout organizer library for Flash. The whole project was essentially an experiment-turned-released-code-collection and, as expected, there have been some growing pains going forward. I have been taking the time to rethink portions of the library and try to clean up and extend its functionality. One big push forward was the introduction of 3d layouts — however, it did not quite fit in with the prior structure. Well, I am very close to completing a fairly thorough rewrite of the library, which will be released in a less haphazard way. I have come to depend on this library for almost every project I have taken on — it just takes care of so much for you automatically. Read the rest of this post…
A Preview of 3d Layout Organizers
Posted on 19 February, 2009 at 11:15am with 4 comments
A while back, I published some work on AS3 layout organizers. The basic premise was to use virtual “containers” of a collection of DisplayObjects to create special layouts, such as a grid or ellipse. The project turned out to be quite enjoyable and I have used this library for almost every project I have worked on since I wrote it. With Flash 10’s introduction of 3d, it seemed appropriate to branch out these organizers into their 3d counterparts. In addition, I have spent a considerable amount of time re-writing a large portion of the core code to make it easier to use and more efficient. I was hoping to release the code in this post as well, but it just is not quite there yet. So, consider this a preview of the revamped library. Read the rest of this post…
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