I swore I’d do better at this whole blog thing, and yet here it is after several months non-posting. In fact I just approved a comment that was posted a while ago that I hadn’t got around to (sorry! I will answer!). I must commit to trying to submit a post a week here for [...]

Here’s just a quick post that’s nothing to do with ActionScript, nothing to do with Brightcove, but to let anyone in the Boston/Worcester/Providence area that I will be performing next month, along with my wife, in Blithe Spirit in Worcester at WCLOC. I was an actor in a past life and have been getting active [...]

I just wanted to quickly document several issues I’ve had so far when developing with Pixel Bender in case anyone else runs into similar issues.
Reapplying an altered shader as a blend mode does not update a display object. The blend modes I was working with all had a percent parameter. If I changed the percent, [...]

In my ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects book I have a chapter in which I discuss Pixel Bender and demonstrate how to create a blending mode for the Flash Player. I also suggest the possibility of rewriting the standard Flash Player blend modes so that a percent parameter might be supported, as you find in Photoshop. [...]

A while back I worked on a prototype for an AIR WYSIWYG BEML editor (how’s that for acronym’s at work?). For those who develop for, or are, Brightcove clients, you will know that BEML stands for Brightcove Experience Markup Language, a simple tag based markup language based on XUL and containing a lot of elements [...]

I decided to put AIRHead up on the Adobe AIR Marketplace since probably about 5 people read this blog (thanks, you five! :)) and saw under Adobe’s terms and conditions that including AIR in the app name was a big no-no. Unfortunately, my creativity lasted for just the one title, so after trying some lame [...]

So back when I was completing the ActionScript Image Effects book I was considering what I could do for fun to demonstrate some of the effects discussed in the book. I had a 3D library I had written years earlier that needed dusting off, so I thought I could combine the two tasks and create a [...]

Here are the slides and support files for the Image Manipulation presentation I gave at RIA Unleashed. I’ve also included the AIRHead application I demonstrated at the end of the session. At the present time the app doesn’t have any help or support files, though, so you have to play around with it to see what it [...]

Yes, I know that blogging is apparently dead or in its dying throes. I always like to pick up trends long after they are hot — I expect to open a Twitter account by 2012. That is, of course, unless the world ends in an over-the-top Roland Emmerich sort of way.
I entitled this first entry [...]