“This handy little class (download here) will allow you to change the registration point of a MovieClip on the fly (instead of having to modify the symbol in the library and repostion all of the contents).” - via Darron Schall

“Well, if you think you’re going to be able to use speech recognition to code anytime soon, this video will set you straight.”

http://robrohan.com/2007/02/14/speech-recognition-coding/

Trigonometry is an easily overlooked topic until you want to create interactive interface solutions relying on spacial relationships. In theory, the concept of trigonometry doesn’t require much to grasp yet still requires enough specialized and simple formulas which are better served as reference material.

So like any interaction developer, I’ll need a trig toolbox, and this will be it.

Note: This is currently a work in progress

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IGN: GDC 2007: Emotiv Systems Unveils Shocking Neural Interface Device
“Emotive’s technology is based upon a new manner of interpreting the electrical activity in the human brain via EEG that looks below the individually unique (and thus difficult to accurately analyze) outer cortex to deeper regions of the brain. Users wear an electrode studded headset that wirelessly interfaces with a receiver already no larger than a USB ram drive. In our closed door demo, Emotive displayed three aspects of how the technology will bring humans and technology much closer together.” - via tagenigma.com

Includes; facial recognition (without a camera), emotional status detection ( excited or calm), and 3D virtual environmental movement manipulation with your thoughts (push, pull, slide, rotate, lift, drop, and six other motions). Coming in 2008 for less than a PS3.

Check out this video ( 11:30 )
http://media.games.ign.com/articles/693/693580/vid_1950935.html

“This function is used internally during the initializion stage for the predefined actionscript objects. It is used to hide an objects children from the for..in loop construct. The for..in loop construct iterates over all children of an object, this means it exposes both methods and properties of an object. It is also used to protect the predefined actionscript objects children from being over-written by another action with the same name and to protect the predefined actionscript objects from being deleted. The usefulness of this function can also be harnessed by the developer and that is when this function gets interesting… ” - via FlashGuru Consulting » ASSetPropFlags

Embedding Flash

“There seems to be a lot of confusion about the code needed to properly embed Flash objects within a website: it’s the most frequently asked question at this site’s forum. The rise of profiling sites like Myspace (who filter lots of codes) and the recent Eolas patent enforcement have thrown even more confusion into the mix. In this article, I’ll try to clearly align the best options for Flash embedment. I’ll also mention the most common pitfalls, and their workarounds.” - via jeroenwijering.com

My method-of-choice to embed has to be SWFObject. It’s able to not only take care of what it needs to, but also integrates with several other techniques including SWFAddress. Another thing I like about it is the ability to work well within Wordpress. At first I had to fall back on some embed techniques and plugins, but after reading this post about using multiline comments, I am up and running with SWFObject again.