I recently worked on a project that needed a video player. I didn’t want to use the standard one’s included with Flash, so I did a little searching and found The Tech Labs, a tutorial site. Rafael Nünlist wrote an excellent post there called “How to build a AS3 Videoplayer.” He not only has a nicely designed video player, but he also shared the code for the world to see. Rafael wrote most of the code in the video player I’m going to show... + read on
Last week was a bad week for quite a few friends in the ad business. Being laid off is always startling, even when you know it’s coming. I thought I’d share some of the tips and advice I’ve shared with friends who have recently been laid off. I hope it might help someone else find work in the ad business in it’s current crazy state. If you’ve got more tips, please post them in the comments section for others. Thanks.
If you don’t have your... + read on
Seriously, what’s your password? If you can tell it to me off the top of your head, it’s probably not very good.
This past week, the password “happiness” lead to the break in of several high profile users of Twitter. (Read the Wired blog on the incident for more details.) Yes, that was “just” Twitter, but what if that had been someone’s Amazon account, or maybe their bank account?
A Perfect Password
So, what’s a good password? Here’s an... + read on