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Announcing CreateJS We've been working really hard on a lot of great stuff over the last couple months, and I'm thrilled finally able to share. CreateJS, EaselJS, SoundJS, TweenJS, PreloadJS, and Toolkit for CreateJS. gskinner.com | gBlog - News and views on Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and web …
Disable Local Security Errors in Chrome If you'd like to disable security errors generated from accessing local content in Chrome (ex. reading pixels from a local image), just launch it with... gskinner.com | gBlog - News and views on Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and web technologies
The Evolution of (Web) Development Tools I've seen a few people complaining about the lack of mature tools to develop content for the modern web (aka HTML5), and it got me thinking about the evolution of these tools, and how challenges are solved on technology platforms in general. In my …
Updates to EaselJS, SoundJS, TweenJS & Zoë! I'm very happy to announce that I've pushed major updates to a number of our javascript tools and libraries, including EaselJS v0.4, Zoë v1.5, TweenJS v0.1 and SoundJS v0.1. gskinner.com | gBlog - News and views on Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and …
Flash Player Mobile, a Post Mortem. By now, you've likely heard that Adobe has ceased development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers. It's hard to miss... See, Steve Jobs was right. But then he was wrong. Very wrong. gskinner.com | gBlog - News and views on Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and …
Great Pumpkin Showdown 2011 Results I am proud to announce the winner of this year’s pumpkin contest! “Kill All Pumpkins”, Ryan and Lanny’s homage to Futurama brings home the gold, narrowly edging out Grant and Wes’ “2001, a Squash Odyssey”, and …
I've been doing a lot of work with JSFL the last little while, and was starting to get frustrated with the inability to define my classes and methods in separate files. After some messing around, I came up with an approach that seems to be working...
Maybe we are compensating for missing halloween last year, but 2011 is our greatest pumpkin contest yet! On Friday, fuelled by beer and pumpkin ale, we split into teams and commenced the hack-and-slash carve-fest. This year has more entries than any previous year (seven), and as usual our most …
I recently bought a new mechanical keyboard to use with my Macbook Air. So far, I'm liking it, but I miss having media keys for controlling volume and music playback like on my Apple & Logitech keyboards. To address this, I wrote a few simple Applescript services that you can bind keyboard …
I was looking at the blog today, thinking how neglected it is, when I realized that its 8 year anniversary had recently passed. That got me scanning nostalgically through old posts, and wistfully pondering how much has changed since my very first post on Sept 1, 2003...
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