Joseph Labrecque

Emergent Collective Two : The Contributors!

The call for submissions for the Emergent Collective Two community compilation CD closed with 2012’s dying breath. For the curious, we now present a list of contributors and their submissions. The aural submissions (in alphabetical order): ‘Anonymous’ : Introduction… Christer (McFunkypants) Kaitila : ProStyle coderjun : Truth Compilers : Giveth An Early Morning Letter, Displaced : Hope of […]

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FVM – new logo for 2013

I’ve been considering some new logo designs for my business, Fractured Vision Media, LLC, for a while now. The old logo was created back in 2005 and I wanted something simpler and more flexible. It was also important to have a visual that seemed less tied to any one period of time and better represented

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2012 Retrospective

I was very tempted to forgo my usual end-of-the-year rundown with just a big middle finger to end 2012 off… this year was terrible on a number of levels; industry uncertainties around Flash and related tech, growing pains with new technologies and products, a lot of bad news from the community both in people’s personal

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Congratulations to Apache Flex!

Please join me in welcoming Apache Flex as a top level Apache Software Foundation project with Alex Harui from Adobe as VP! Congratulations, all – what a wonderful way to close out the year :D The current release build of Apache Flex is 4.8 – a parity release with Adobe Flex 4.6. However, Apache Flex 4.9 is in release

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AS3 Quickie – drawWithQuality()

Since Flash Player 9, we’ve been able to use the BitmapData.draw() method in order to capture visual data from a display object. The major limitation of using this method, is that it will render the visual at the stage quality with which the swf has been embedded/compiled. One trick to get around this is to

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