Path to Enlightenment
July 9, 2010
I’m a big fan of Chet Haase and his brilliant blog Codedependent. He makes very entertaining instructional videos about coding on the Flex 4 framework. I occasionally spend some time on his blog getting to know the new features in the Flex 4 framework. And time and time again he has managed to motivate me to get back to work and use my skills in a playful manner.
A while a go I watched this gripping and suspenseful video about creating a simple drawing application. The video talks about the new “Path” object in Flex 4. The Path object is an easy tool to save and manipulate line data. (This simple demo uses only simple straight line segments but this object could be used for bezier curves as well.)
Anyway I was fascinated by the small amount of code needed for this application. I downloaded the code and played with it. Here’s my interpretation of the Path to Enlightenment. It’s in the spirit of “less is more”. Draw some lines and wait a few seconds to see what I mean. Your lines will be enlighted and stripped down to their bare essentials. 
The demo (press your left mouse button and draw by moving your mouse)
The source
JoyRider 1.2
June 2, 2008
I released a new version of JoyRider.
This time with sound (soundtrack and soundeffects), levels, and upgrades. Let me know what you think of it!
Addicting little Flash games on Kongregate
May 14, 2008
Wow this is addicting; Kongregate
I’ve spend hours playing games on this website.
The website is a huge collection of small Flash games. Most of them are programmed against the Kongregate challenge and high score API’s that connect all the games to a global Kongregate scoring system which makes the whole thing really competitive.
If you easily fall for addictions, don’t go anywhere near this website. If you do want to check it out, here are some recommendations.
- Desktop Tower Defense
Simple game, but it’s a real challenge to earn all the badges. The objective is to keep your desk clean.
This game kept me busy for days. - Pillage the Village
- The fancy pants adventures
- Shift and Shift2
Please if you sign up use this link so I’ll be marked as your referrer to Kongregate. This way I earn game points.
Feel free to use my Kongregate profile page, to see what I’m playing or recommend games to me!
Use CSS to hide messages or images
March 11, 2008
Erik Kastner found an interesting use for “CSS3′s selection pseudo element” (supported by Safari and Firefox) and devised a interesting hack that allows you to hide images in texts. You can make every kind of text hide every sort of image, the image will become visible when you select the text. Check out the example that I created, I mashed up a repetition of the text “Sylvia vliegt.” (Dutch for Sylvia is flying) and a Flickr photo;
Go on make your own hidden images with the script Erik Kastner wrote “Text + Image + CSS3 = Crazy Delicious“.
