The Reflektions Miniml CD has been updated, new work exploring Javascript Library/toolkits (Mootools) and a bunch of new 3D JavaScript experiments. Don't forget that the CD contains all the flash ActionScript source code on the site. Good to have if...

I decided to make all my javascript experiments downloadable. Click on the ".zip" icon bellow each experiment to download all source code with HTML|CSS|JavaScript and assets.If you like the experiments and find them usefull in your projects....

Two major conferences starting today. FITC has been established as a leader in Flash, actionScript and JSConf: one of the most interesting conferences for Javascript development. Both have a great speaker lineup.  JSConf puts an emphasis on a...

The Reflektions Miniml CD has been updated, new work exploring light effects and mesh triangulations and a bunch of new AS3 experiments, new frameworks (Flex) and compiler options (MXMLC) for swf creation. Good to have if you're a serious flash developer...

CS4 might be coming out soon, full of new features and a slick new API. Last thing I expected was for Richard Galvan, Flash product Manager at Adobe, to have a few more hidden tricks up his sleeves. Turns out he can grill a mean steak....yeah thats...

The Reflektions Miniml CD has been updated, new work exploring light effects and mesh triangulations and a bunch of new AS3 experiments, new frameworks (Flex) and compiler options (MXMLC) for swf creation. Good to have if you're a serious flash developer...

You can download my Flash Forward San Francisco lecture files here.

It's a solid speaker lineup and the location ... as good as it gets, San Francisco. I will be holding one workshop and speaking on Friday. Looking at the schedule, I noticed a nice blend of creative & technical topics. With this type of hype, I...

You can download my flashbelt lecture files here.

The company where I currently work : Blast Radius is currently looking for talented people to join our San Francisco office and work alongside me– specifically, killer CSS gurus, masters of hand-coded CSS and JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript programmers,...

The speaker lineup is as good as it gets, the topics are even more interesting, a nice blend of creative & technical, all good reasons to attend this years flashbelt conference taking place in Minneapolis.  I would love to get in touch...

The Reflektions Miniml CD was due for an upgrade. In the past months, I was hard at work exploring a bunch of new AS3 experiments, new frameworks (Flex) and compiler options (MXMLC) for swf creation. The CD upgrade features all the great work I put...

Recent propaganda by Adobe has favored Flex, AIR and the upcoming Thermo, and many traditional flashers find their skills are at a disadvantage as competition has increased from the popular (and lucrative) RIA developer market.  As a flasher...

To my last post where I enumerated the 5 approaches to SWF development, follows my list of how-to-call-that-guy-who-compiles-swf's.  Comments left by the community helped me write this portion and is only a reflection on my part an opinion and...

2008, the Flex-Flash world is at its maturity and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs) has become an official web 2.0 buzzword. In the past week, I looked back and noticed how much SWF has evolved. There now exists 5 approaches to SWF development...

Aloha! The sun and the surf are waiting ... and off to Hawaii I go.  I am taking some time off next week.  I might not be online although the Miniml Source code CD and The Miniml store are open for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week....

Coming up in San Francisco is a little know lecture series packed with great speakers and topics.   The Pearson Education Voices That Matter Conference series gives voice to the most important thought leaders in technology, design, and business...

Been busy this summer working at goodby silverstein and teaching flash at the Miami ad school in San Francisco. I know I posted that I was on a scripting vacation, that I was pausing my coding, but I could not resit the urge to release my video player...

Summer is here, sun's out and reflektions Miniml is due for a break.  I decided to stop posting new experiments  for the next few weeks.  Why? So that I get to go on vacation, swim, surf and play tennis.  I will also be hard at...

Back from FlashBelt, kudos to Dave, it was extremely well organized with a great lineup of speakers. I had a chance to catch up, listen to lectures, get inspired and hang out  with a few colleagues, Joshua Davis, JaredTarbell,  Mario, Seb,...

You can download my flashbelt bitmapData and 3D image manipulation lecture files here.

The speaker lineup is as good as it gets, the topics are even more interesting, a nice blend of cretaive & technical, all good reasons to attend this years flashbelt conference taking place in Minneapolis.  Confirmed speakers are joshua davis,...

Weekend is here and most of you will be out celebrating Mothers day. Unfortunately my mother lives in Montreal and I on the West Coast in San Francisco.  Instead I decided to do something good, serve to a charitable cause.  Last year I participated...

To all those who attended my lecture at FITC in Toronto, Canada here are the presentation files. Dont forget to download the free slidebar and knob components from my site.

I finished my talk at FITC and the turnout was great.  Heard lots of positive comments, I'm just glad I was able to pack in all that theory inside an houre. Next, Hit town to party with a few friends and the FITC speakers & attendees. ...

I was happy to hear that nothern US and Midwest flash designer developers are thrilled to have me as part of the speaker lineup for this years flashbelt conference taking place in Minneapolis. Flashbelt - brings together flash developers, designers,...

I decided to kill a sub project to the reflektions|miniml site.  Project 52 was a compilation of all the 300+ 3D, mathematics, animation & physices experiments on this site.  I replaced it with the browse all experiments link on this...

Havent taken the time lately to write about what's goint on.  We are well into the AS3 realm of things and I set out to find a new actionScript editor (I am a big SEPY fan). After some research in using eclipse, I quickly realised that AMES is...

Back from the holidays.  First matter to take care of is the winner of the free 2006 reflektions.com | miniml source file collection. The question was "how many flash experiments were posted on reflektions | miniml in 2006" and the answer...

I just got confirmation that I will be lecturing at this years FITC  in Toronto, Canada.  Always a treat and a great conference packed with great speakers.  If you have never attended one .... you should. On the other hand I wanted...

I realised my rss was broken for the past week and none of you MXNA folks had the pleasure of sharing my last experiments on 3D grid rotation around a sphere.  If you havent, here are quick links 3D sphere rotation v3 , 3D sphere rotation v2,...

Over 200 experiments from Reflektions | miniml are now ready to be shipped to your hard drive in time for the holidays.  All the experiments posted in 2006 are available, .fla source code with commented .as files, you will also find free components. ...

To all those who attended my lecture at FITC New Media road show in Winnipeg, Canada here are the presentation files. Dont forget to download the free slidebarr and knob components from the site. I dont like bloging about my personal life much but...

I will be lecturing at this years FITC  new media road show in Winnipeg, Canada.  I  know the conference will be extremely well organised and full of amazing lectures and pannels.  Mine is on Saturday at  9h15 Steering Arcs...

I decided to create a sub project to the reflektions|miniml site.  Project 52 is a compilation of all the 100+ 3D, mathematics, animation & physices experiments on this site and gives you quick access to all the source code.  It is updated...

I'm back from FITC Holywood. FITC is definitely the best conference and Shawn Pucknell and his team make sure to look into and plan ahead for every little detail - each conference is consistently great.  FITC had invited the usual suspects although...

I have made some adjustments and fixes to the way you access reflektions|miniml.  The archive and category sections are now listing the topics withouth previewing the flash. I realised that showing 50 swf files on the same page made the CPU slow...

All of us (including me) scrateched our heads yesterday wondering why reflektions miniml was down.  Tell you the truth, I dont know, my provider is simply unreliable. They were reliable at first ... burlee.com was, but it got bought out...

Sorry to all those who tried to post comments on miniml  in the past month.  I had uploaded an old version of a script and it somehow messed up the comment form.  I was wondering why no one was writing back to all the new posts,...

Goodby Silverstein & Partners is looking for a Flash/Multimedia Developer to join the Interactive Department. This position works with teams to build rich interactive experiences. Projects include flash banners, microsites, jump pages...

GSPSF is looking for an entry level flash designer.Candidate must posses a diploma in a new media program and have a good eye for design. Successful candidates must show they have followed courses in Flash animation and Object Oriented Programming...

I attended this years FITC conference and found it extremely well organised and  full of amazing lectures and pannels.  Mine was on sunday 10h30 Creative uses of a 3D engine using flash 8 API and I was amazed at how well people received my...

Finished judging the south by southwest web awards (SXSW).  Needless to say some sites were truely inovative and some a no sell! A few grabed my attention.  I will publish a list once the finalists are officialised; 

Designing a website should always start with the color palette decision. Before getting too involved with photoshop, the color palette bellow was created to be used in my design later on. Miniml was based on these 6 colors, mostly cold colors with...