From your early days as Conan the Destroyer to your wild teenage years to the beautiful woman with refined passion you are today, I am so happy to be your big brother. As a child, you proclaimed that you were going to be a famous country singer, but live in the big city. At times, […]
Unlike many other great languages, ActionScript 3 does not have a method for finding a date’s day within a year. For example, February 10, 2008, is the 41st day in the year. Here is my solution:
function getDayOfYear(date:Date):Number {
var monthLengths:Array = new Array (31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31);
// A […]
When needing to scale loaded assets in ActionScript so that no side is larger than a particular dimension, you can spare manual proportion calculation by using the scaleX and scaleY display object properties.
Manual proportional scaling code looks like this:
myDisplayObject.height = (originalHeight * newWidth) / originalWidth;
myDisplayObject.width = newWidth;
That’s fine and dandy, but I typically need to […]
As I was contemplating god and religion, several pieces of art / media accompanied my thoughts. Some of these are religious. Some are atheist. All were influential.
Contact (movie)
The topics of love, loss of a parent, and blunt discussion about the evidence of god’s existence make this one of my favorite movies of all time.
Great line: […]
My friend John asked to interview me for a paper he’s writing in his high school English class. He had the same questions for a variety of topics and I chose the meaning of life. Here are my answers.
Why is this question important to you?
It’s a question that I’ve thought about for a long time. […]
