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bitchwhocodes
Stacey Mulcahy is the "bitch who codes" Flash with a bit of Director here and there. (http://www.bitchwhocodes.com/mt/)
Planning - From the Dev
My fourth article in the "Project Management from the Developer's Perspective" series is up on InsideRIA where I basically rant about the importance of planning and abuse the saying Adam Boozer taught me - "OMG, what are you going to do??"
Read the article here
December 8, 2008 06:11 PM
Eboy, Me and MAX
YAY! I'm excited they are out and about at MAX - the Flash Platform sticker sheets! I'm honoured to be a part of the sticker sheet - guess which one I am ?
This is me, according to eboy:
November 18, 2008 02:17 PM
Long Overdue - FlashPitt
Its been close to a week since I've been back from the lovely city of Pittsburgh- having attended FlashPitt 2008. I have a bunch of incriminating photos to pull from the camera still :)
I was honoured to be asked to speak at this event - doing a session entitled "Experience vs Functionality". Due to a small scheduling conflict, I ended up being the only choice the poor people had during that day, so my room was pretty packed. As always, I had some "choice" slides and this seemed to be everyones
October 17, 2008 01:02 PM
Konductor goes Beta
One of the things we are working on over at Teknision right now, is an AIR application for the Konductor Platform - we call it Konductor. Chances are, you might just see it at MAX in November...
Beta seats just opened up - 500 people will be allowed to test drive this application and the CMS platform - so hurry over to the Konductor Blog and come and see what we're so excited about at Teknision.
October 8, 2008 04:42 PM
InsideRIA
I've started to blog at O'Reilly's InsideRIA
Feel free to check out the start of my series on Project Management from the Developer's Perspective. Its gonna be more than one or two blog entries to cover one of my favorite rant topics.
September 26, 2008 08:02 PM
IPhone WallPapers
We love the new visualizers in ITunes so much, we made Iphone desktops from them - come see what the peeps at Teknision are listening to and get some wicked looking IPhone wallpapers.
http://blog.teknision.com/
September 17, 2008 04:28 PM
FlashPitt!!
I'm looking forward to attending FlashPitt in Pittsburgh October 10 - and I'm more excited to be speaking! A bit of a new topic this time, I'll be talking about Experience versus Functionality.
Looks to be a great event with a solid speaker lineup - come and say hi if you see me there!
September 16, 2008 06:46 PM
FlashForward Preso Posted
I just got home from Flash Forward late last night - checked my inbox and I must have got somewhere around 20 emails about my presentation.
I have posted my presentation - both the keynote and the pdf. Feel free to use it/abuse it, pass it on. You can download the presentation here.
Thanks for all the great feedback - its really nice to hear that people enjoyed the presentation. At one point I was laughing so hard I was unsure I was going to be able to continue...
Big thanks to Brandon Hal
August 26, 2008 01:59 PM
Speaking at FlashForward
Hooray! I'll be presenting at this years FlashForward Conference in San Francisco - in August. Looks like I got the prime slot - the sleeper afternoon session on the very last day.... :) The theme of this years conference is Passion - and seeing that I'm passionate about process, its fitting I'll be doing a preso entitled " Project Management from the Developers Perspective". Not sure what to expect? Hopefully some insight,definitely some humor. If you see me there, come say hi, and heh, wish
July 23, 2008 08:41 PM
What is your passion?
I'm just now starting to get back into the swing of things having recently returned from what can probably be considered my first real vacation in years. 10 days away from deadlines, work, worries - lots of time to do a bit of self-reflection - something that often makes me wish I was just back at work. Yes, introspection makes me cringe at the best of times.
I spent somewhere around 10 days - checking out Lisbon, driving and getting very lost in Paris ( yet I drove and survived and am a bigge
June 2, 2008 05:51 PM
The Race Card
While in Atlanta, I got to work some extremely talented peeps and see the evolution of some of their ideas and works in progress. The Race card was the work of Fabian Williams - a talented graphic artist who used to constantly remind me how in Canada, we "were different" :) He's finally released his RaceCards and they are starting to get some interest from Atlanta news.
I was lucky to receive his Joker print as a parting gift... not sure if he was trying to say something with that... :) His w
May 21, 2008 01:56 PM
FITC Feedback
I got my feedback from FITC already ( they are on the ball... ) and I got a nice 9.20 overall. Yipeeeeee!!! Thanks again for anyone who commented - its nice to get constructive feedback and really helps the presenters- never mind the fact that you could have won something .... :)
So thanks again for everyone who attended my session so early in the morning!
April 30, 2008 12:38 AM
Incompatible Override
So for the first time, I've seen this lovely 1023 error - Incompatible Override. I checked the code - the signatures are the same, the number and type of arguments are the same, the method declaration are the same... etc etc. It looks as it should be, but suddenly upon compilation, boom - getting this awesomeo highly descriptive error. If there was a difference between the methods in any way, I'd understand... but there isn't.
Any thoughts, ideas etc? People have suggested linking and unlinkin
April 29, 2008 04:04 PM
Bizarre Signs of Success
Pirated copies and ebay sales - two really bizarre signs of what I'd call success for a project we recently released at Fuel Industries - Fairies and Dragons. Now being handed out in various places throughout the UK and Europe, the interactive McDonalds happy meal toy was probably one of the largest projects I have worked on in terms of sheer team size, and is one of the bigger projects I think to come out of Fuel.
And for the first time, I just realized, I'll be able to go in-store and pick
April 28, 2008 01:29 PM
FITC Keynote Preso up
I am in the process of uploading the keynote file for my preso... the pdf export option is great but it screwed it up with the transitions and all.
Same Place different file - http://www.bitch
whocodes.com/fitc2008/preso.zip
Thanks again to everyone who attended, and more so for those checking out the preso who weren't there and giving me feedback!
April 25, 2008 08:58 PM
FWA Interview
Shameless self promo I suspect but an interview I did with FWA is now online - you can read it here. I think my fave comment is listed under greatest achievements :)
April 25, 2008 06:27 PM
FITC Preso online
My preso - Project Management from the Developer's Perspective, is online. You can grab it at
http://www.bitchwhocodes.com/fitc2008/preso.pdf. I decided to just post a pdf generated from the Keynote - but if someone wants the keynote, post a comment and let me know.
April 25, 2008 03:43 AM
FITC Over and Out
Just got back from FITC - really impressed with the organization and some of presos. I think mine went over pretty good, can't complain from the audience response. I will be posting my preso as a keynote doc and a pdf sometime tonight - and will blog the link.
Just wanted to thank everyone for their great feedback, and thank the crew at FITC for having me!
April 23, 2008 04:47 PM
Random Things I've Learned
Just a random dump of things I've learned the past couple of months, not all Flash related.I'm going to try to do this more often because its good to go back and remember the stuff that stumped you or you didn't know.
So just a few:
1. Don't try to snapshot a NetStream. Long gone are the days of creating a bitmap, and doing a transition with it. Release 115 of the player plugged what they considered a security hole. People had a shitload of pretty hackilious workarounds but from what I've seen
April 10, 2008 02:45 PM
All Girl Arcade
Big shout out to my peeps at Fuel Industries we just released All Girl Arcade - a gaming and media portal targeted at girls ages 8-12. The sushi game is slightly addictive.. check it out if you get a chance!
April 10, 2008 04:53 PM
Growing up is hard to do
I've spent the better part of two days trying to get Visual Studio properly installed. Most of you, right after that sentence, are all WTF - Visual Studio. Yep, thats right. I'm installing Visual Studio. Yes, I'm installing it to start playing/digging around with Silverlight.
That's right. I said what appears to be the forbidden phrase in Flashdom. And I'm still here - there are no signs of being struck by lightening or an implosion with the only trace of me left being the smoking chair where
February 4, 2008 01:33 PM
GOASAP
I got to check out GOASAP - Moses' lightweight framework for building custom as3 animation tools. I didn't rip the description word for word - it goes more like :
"The Go ActionScript Animation Platform ("GOASAP") is a lightweight, portable set of generic base classes for building AS3 animation tools. Go provides structure & core functionality, but leaves the specifics to you."
I've played with FuseKit before, and the other various tweening engines out there. Chances are, if it tweens, I've us
January 16, 2008 04:53 PM
Dominos BFD Builder
I was just passed this link to the Dominos Big Fantastic Deal Builder by my good friend Mathew Ray over at CP+B. Nice configurator style site where you can build yer own pizza.
January 15, 2008 02:47 AM
Bitchless Year
I'm somewhat mortified that this is my first post of the year - but here goes my re-cap of the previous year - which admittedly I'm relieved is over. It was a pretty rough year in some aspects - but workwise, I have to admit, it was pretty rewarding all in all.
Highlights & Events that my year what it was.
1. Help create/deploy huge site for a major corporation that had an incredible media buy/push.
2. Went to Apollo Camp ( now AIR) in San Francisco in March with my co-worker at the time
January 14, 2008 08:29 PM
Flash 9 components failing in 3rd party wrappers
A co-worker came across a weird one today - where it seems that certain components in the Flash 9 set don't play nicely with 3rd party wrappers. I say wrappers, because it wasn't just limited to one- but with Zinc, mProjector and even his own C# swf wrapper. Looks like anything with the scrollbar causes it to render some awesome seizure flickering action - as if there is a compile error that isn't being caught. Happens to components that look like they are composites - the simple slider, scrollP
December 5, 2007 01:39 PM
AIR Spotlight Videos
I was really happy to see Finetune as part of of the AIR Spotlight Videos . So many people have asked exactly what is Finetune, and I think they do a great job of explaining what it is, and why it deserves to be an AIR case study.
The Finetune case study is something that shouldn't just be looked at from the entire AIR perspective - this isn't the first platform/deployment venue where Finetune has been smart enough to be one of the first people in/adopt ( the Wii player version immediately com
November 21, 2007 03:15 PM
Leaving Hollywood
Waking up to 93 degrees and apocolyptic forest fires, quite the way to start the morning. FITC in Hollywood is officially over and by far, my favorite preso was the one by WEFAIL. I managed to stick through all the Canadian ribbing/jokes - as the client project they discussed is basically a national institution in Canada, and learned tonnes about what NOT to do on a client project. And of course, its was outlandishly funny.
Had the opportunity to meet some pretty awesome folks and managed to l
October 24, 2007 06:08 PM
FITC Hollywood
Tomorrow morning, I'll be starting off the FITC Hollywood conference bright and early by speaking about as3. I'll be posting a link to files and svn for all resources shortly after. It's super nice to be asked back and I'm looking forward to catching some great presentations.
October 22, 2007 08:03 AM
Road Trips!
So I'm just getting ready for yet another road trip - packing up in the ATL and moving back to OTown. As much as I've enjoyed the states and the culture shock of living in the "dirty south", I'm pretty stoked about returning to Canada where I can say how much I crave a poutine, and not have people look at me all strange :)
June 12, 2007 10:17 PM
Are Developers Beyond Binary Speak?
Can developers be more than awkward sweat-panting-wearing-binary-speaking-basement-dwelling nerdites who catalog Star Wars figurines and reminisce about marathon DnD games?
Is this the typical flash/flex developer stereotype? Is this yet antoher thing I have to battle against when I've been silo'd into a particular role that people associate particular traits and attributes to? Developers are not creative for they are inherently 0/1. Developers can't communicate. Developers don't understand des
May 17, 2007 02:15 PM
FITC 2007 - Over and Out
As always, I have some ridiculous pictures up on my flickr account.
I'm back home from FITC in Toronto trying to get caught up on everything since time just seems to stall when you are away. There was some pretty fantastic presos at FITC this year - technically one of my faves was the one about Red5 with John and Chris - they showed some really cool stuff with various inputs - from the guitar hero styles to the wiimote drum playing. Not to be missed of course, was the Maeda presenation - a very
April 25, 2007 11:37 PM
AS2 to AS3 without feeling like ya got kicked in the gnards
Yikes, that really should have been the title of my preso at FITC.
Well here goes nuttin' - I'm just loading up my nano, recharging my DS and trying to remember I should pack - before I head off to Toronto for this years FITC. I have spent the entire week battling sickness - the timing couldn't have been worse, but at least I started to feel somewhat human again yesterday.
Just putting the finishing touches on my preso - I had some brainstorm yesterday to build a mini apollo app to help illust
April 21, 2007 01:11 PM
FITC 2007
Once again, the round up! Who's all planning on going? What sessions are you looking forward to going to? Personally, I'm most exicted about the sessions from Fry and Maeda. Maybe I'll take some time to write out a full " here's what I'm seeing at FITC and why" post. I'll be giving a session on AS2 to AS3 Migration, and altho the topic is admittedly kinda dry, I don't think my preso will be ; been working to make it as funny as it is informative. Lets see if I can pull it off - I think I'm at 2:
April 10, 2007 01:48 PM
Tell Target Torture Cast Ep 6
Wow up to episode 6 - variety of topics covered here - from Shake and bake to PuzzleQuest - and of course CS3 - designers and developers included :) The production value is getting better each time...yay!
Check it out - the Tell Target Torture Cast
April 9, 2007 10:16 PM
TellTarget Torture Cast
New podcast out - called the TellTarget Torture Cast . Its up to episode 3 now - its basically a roundtable of people from the interactive industry talking about things that matter ( or maybe don't?) to all of us in the industry. Informal conversational style - its full of goodies. Weeeee! I was a part of the first episode - notice how it improves from then on :) Check the site for the show notes - maybe your site/project was mentioned!
March 20, 2007 03:36 PM
ApolloCamp - SF
I was really fortunate to attend the ApolloCamp at the Adobe office in San Francisco this weekend - and it was such a great event. The few pictures I managed to snap can be seen on my flickr.
It was great to see a bunch of familiar faces, put some faces to some names ( oh JD - why are you scared of me? - Matt C, you have patience to listen to my verbal spew ), and to meet some new folks. Some great sessions were given about Apollo - and its defintely going to be an interesting couple of months
March 18, 2007 06:07 AM
Teknision Launches new site
New site for Teknisionthat uses flickr as a definitive design element. Kinda neat - congrats, it looks good!
February 20, 2007 07:29 PM
Inspire 2007 - Are stories necessary?
This past weekend I was fortunate to attend the Savannah School of the Art's Inspire 2007 Symposium. Right from the website - "INSPIRE 07 is a one-day symposium held to encourage the discussion and exchange of creative ideas in broadcast design, motion graphics and media art." Pictures were taken - you can see them here, if you're into the antics of my co-workers and I :)
I was a bit dissappointed that the speaker from Schematic was a no show ( due to weather/flights I think ) - personally, t
February 19, 2007 12:33 PM
Work, FITC, and more
It's been nearly forever since I've posted - I've been head down just trying to get some projects out the door, and I'll post some links soon :) I have a hard time sharing what I work on - not sure why, perhaps I'm overly critical of my own work.
I'm excited to say, I'll be going to FITC this year - by far my favorite conference that I've attended - and this year I'll be speaking! Yay!!!! Its a huge deal for me - I'm super pumped about presenting and hopefully I can be somewhat entertaining - a
February 15, 2007 01:45 AM
2007 Already
Rather than do a year in review, I thought I'd do a "resources in review" to share some of the good stuff that has made its way to me this past year. People have been generous - and I've had the good fortune to be on the receiving end ( get all your minds out the gutters, eternal perverts of the flash community...)
Books. I'm really lucky to get a bunch of books, I was especially lucky when I taught a Flash course to get books so that I could put them on my recommended reading list for the stu
January 2, 2007 03:10 PM
Kudos! They make it look easy!
Wow, I'm super stoked to say that today I am beyond proud of my compadres at Teknision - dudes work on FineTunes has finally been recognized - it was listed as one of the top 10 web sites of 2006 by Times Magazine. That's so awesome - I love the application and the various ways they have pushed the technology ( like the new Wii version and many other deployment arenas... yay baby!).
To me, this is great personally to see the innovation and forward thinking Tony brings to the table be recognized
January 2, 2007 04:58 PM
AS3 Cookbook
Thanks O'Reilly, for the several copies of the AS3 Cookbook I got today - written by Darron Schall, Joey Lott, and Keith Peters. It's nice to see the book out and about - and to see all the hard work finally realized. The connection for me, is that I helped out on the book by tech editing, something I love to do.
Yay!! I can't wait to crack it open!
November 9, 2006 09:47 PM
Another Day, Another year
Another year older that is, for me. Today is my birthday, and I'll be spending it much the same way as I did last year. Booo. I highly recommend that to help me celebrate this momentous, even slightly bs occasion by indulging in an extra cold and refreshing bevvie of your choice for me.
I actually have some useful, flash-centric posting to do - its on my list. Time to start crossing some of those items off.
October 30, 2006 06:16 PM
FineTune
I've recently been playing with FineTune - a web 2. 0 type of music site where you can create and share playlists. Teknision did the development for the embedded player which I have to say is pretty stylin'. This service was recently "dugg" which is what everyone wants...until you're working on it and trying to get things done... but I can see why so many people checked it out.
I'm completely astonished by the amount and assortment of songs on this service- defintely the music buffs out there s
September 18, 2006 02:41 PM
Flex Productivity
I've read tons about how productive the flex environment is and how workflow is a dream - the lastest being Ted Patrick's blog entry.
I'm not about to proclaim Flex unproductive by any means, but I think those who haven't had the pleasure of delving into it need to know that its not miraculously going to transform you into this god of efficiency and productivity. If it did, I wouldn't be writing this blog entry- I'd be making fun of old dudes in banana hammocks off the coast of Florida while
September 15, 2006 02:25 PM
Teknision turns 5
Happy anniversary goes out to the good folks at http://www.teknision.comTeknision - 5 years of pushing ideas and technology in the world of Flash.
Cheers!
September 1, 2006 06:23 PM
Future of Flash Video?
Last night I attended an interesting user group meeting with Kenny Bunch about the Future of Video. We saw some pretty cool applications he was doing with video and he discussed the future of video.
When it came to discussing the future of Flash video, I was a bit surprised that people were putting the focus on deployement platforms rather than the actual asset itself.
Sitting down to watch a tv show is generally a passive experience. In terms of timecodes, you move ahead in a linear fashion
August 25, 2006 01:56 PM
10 years of Flash...
All sorts of articles are up on the abobe site for the 10 years of flash celebration - read mine. That's right, I said mine :) I was flattered when I was asked to particpate in the feature.
Ps. if you make a comment about my photo I may have to inflict everlasting pain upon you.
August 8, 2006 09:38 PM
Blogothon Galaxy goo styles
Lots of news to eventually come from this end, once I sort my thoughts out - but something I've been meaning to mention is the blogothon that took place last weekend for GalaxyGoo. If you have a chance, head over to Kristin's site and check out some of the experiments.
As usual, I was crapped out for time and wasn't able to contribute in the ways I had planned to- isn't that always the way?:) However, there are some very cool experiments up there - and once again, its been a reminder that expe
August 8, 2006 07:15 AM
Array oddity in AMFPHP /Flex 2
Not sure if you want to file this under oddity or stupidity as I might e doing something completely wrong, but either way I discovered some unexpected behaviour.
I've been building a calendar application in Flex for creating,saving,duplicating and deleting events. The backend is php/mysql and I am using amfphp by extending the NetConnection as described in Jesse's post.
All works well but I noticed some weird behaviour when passing an array of items to a php service. Basically the service do
July 10, 2006 11:50 AM
Are You Full As A Goog?
