projects

Today I am launching Misunderstood Pigs ( iTunes Link). The gameplay is simple: place objects to save the pigs from an impending onslaught of projectiles.

This is the first of several personal project’s that I plan to open source in the coming months. As I’ve slowly begun the process of migrating all of my personal projects from a private gitosis installation to a new server, I’ve realized that most of my 43 private repositories…

While working on one of my side-projects, I had the need for client-side pagination. Nothing I could find was simple enough for my use case, so I decided to write my own. Check it out on GitHub here.

I spent the last few days teaching myself Flex 4 and AIR. Per my usual way of learning things I like to make (somewhat) functional applications. This time I made a desktop notification system for Stackoverflow. Currently it just notifies of new questions asked, subject to certain…

Two of the most popular ways to build flex projects are Flex Builder and the Flex SDK Ant tasks. We had been using the first for development and the second for production.

If you have ever spent any time developing and styling flex applications, you have probably come to find the 9-grid scaling feature indispensable. For those of you unfortunate enough to have never experienced this feature, it enables you to easily scale an image while preserving…

My favorite part about flying is that I use it as an excuse to focus on small personal projects. Last night, on my red-eye flight back from west coast demo day 2008 (oh yeah, in case you didn’t know, I am in YCombinator Summer ’08, co-founder of MeetCast) I made a custom RSS…

A while back I created this game while teaching myself Flex 3 and Papervision 3D 2.0 and I figured it merited a blog post. It's of the 3D Tetris breed and took me several weeks to complete. You can see it in action here. Try it out and submit your high scores! Feedback is…