Tomasino Labs

My son was born in the summer of 2012, capping off one of my most intense years.

I’ve mentioned before that I firmly love vim and use it for just about everything.

With wearable devices on the rise, small screen and no-screen user experience is a hot topic.

If you want to start a war between coders, just ask them to start describing their tools.

This post is a HOWTO guide I wrote for my development team.

This past weekend I finally shed my Wordpress blogs and moved into the world of static site publishing.

Mark this one down in the list of cool ideas I’ll never follow through with.

Today I needed to get a list of all the files that had changed in a git repository over the last two weeks.

See it in action The development team where I work will soon be celebrating the launch of our new company website a good old fashioned chess tournament.

I’ve been doing a lot of work this past week developing my own custom boilerplate for developing HTML5/CSS/JS projects.

Responsive Web Design is a huge movement in the web development world right now.

This is a post more for my own future reference than the rest of the world: I posted earlier with my standard JavaScript class template.

As I may have mentioned before, AS3 performs its ExternalInterface operations synchronously.

OSX has an option in the Desktop Background section that allows you to select an entire folder to serve as your background image.

A lot of folks have been raving about HTML5 lately and I’ve been a little behind on writing about it, especially being that I’m a Flash developer and it is being touted as a “Flash killer”.

Creating a pure AS3 (no Flex) project using Ant and command line tools has not been the easiest thing to learn.

I’m putting together a really tight little todo list manager right now, and in the process I’ve been exploring some simple things on my … todo list.

In an ongoing effort to make my javascript code not look like trash, I’ve compiled the following template for all of my class files.

There is a bug in GoogleAnalytics that causes links with target=_blank to open a new window as well as navigating the current window to the new link.

In an effort to never, ever get a single bit of spam, I instituted a bit of a ridiculous solution.

I like to include my source code in my WordPress posts, but it was getting annoying to keep up-to-date.

I do web development.

A while back I had mentioned that I was working on a bigger cipher project.

Well, as promised, it’s time to reveal the video player I’ve built on top of SimpleNetStream.

I have to give Adobe a lot of credit for all the hard work they put in to make AS3 the great language that it is.

In AS3, like any programming language, there are lots of little tricks you pick up that eventually become part of your own coding style.

In the early 70’s, my dad was a student at Kent State University.

In AS3, the most basic debugging tool is the trace() statement.

Back in the ancient days before computers and the interweb, the transmitting of secrets was an art.

In an earlier post I explained my approach to keycodes in AS3.

A lot of AS3 Developers aren’t from a traditional computer science background.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start It’s one of the most well known bits of KeyCode gibberish out there and has spawned all sorts of web fun.

A friend recently asked me a really good question.

In an era when half the entities on the internet are screaming to be heard and the other half are trying to hide, we’ve done remarkably little as far as innovation to meet those goals.

While at Empathy Lab, I was used as a resource on a lot of different projects per week.

While working at Empathy Lab I had the opportunity to help redesign the company website.

BUBBLES!!!

I play a lot of chess.

This AS2 project was part of an application to Moxie Interactive back in 2007.

I love instant messaging.

When you want to calculate distance on a sphere or sphere-like shapes, there are three good options.

This might be the nerdiest of all lab projects, but hey, I’m a big nerd.

Why doesn’t anyone play with depth of field in flash games?

This was a quick logo design for a friend.

A freebie freelance website needed a very particular type of image gallery built that worked like an accordion and could be configured with XML.

Ok, bear with me.

If you’re anything like me, which I’m sure you are, then you really don’t like Flash components & SWCs either.

A really common problem that shows up in a lot of the Flash apps I build is the need to load external files and use them in multiple places.

Yes, you read that right, synchronous.

In my last post I mentioned that my TabManager class took advantage of some of my other utility classes.