A colleague of mine was having a rough time with his piece of a music player he was working on for his business. He was in a situation where the music player was starting a new song without stopping the current song playing. It worked something like this applicationbut much more refined with an interface, [...]

The random() function has been deprecated since Flash 5 and in ActionScript 3, it’s been completely removed.  I’ve been asked a few times on how to generate a random number based on a low and high value and I also just finished a lottery type application. First off, you want to use Math.random();   However it functions differently [...]

I was around 10 years old when the original game came out.  It was the latest Sierra Online games to hit the shelves.  I do remember walking into Babbages at the time and picking up the game and staring at the game’s box art.  The price was $40.00 and for a computer game, that was [...]

I was experiementing with Yahoo’s RSS feeds and I simply could not get my Reader to load the RSS when I threw it online.  I’m sure this was because I was loading in images and Yahoo’s crossdomain.xml wasn’t allowing the transfer to happen. Enter Yahoo Pipes.  Anyone and everyone can create a Pipe and customize it to suit [...]