Recent Articles

Why I shave with olive oil

Posted by Chris Inch on Sept. 5th, 2007

Shaving is a fact of life for most. Both men and women have felt the need to chop off hair as close as possible to their skin for thousands of years. I am no exception. Seeing as I shave my face almost every day and realizing that there's millions of other things I would rather be doing at 7:00AM, I have made it my mission to find the best, most comfortable, fastest and generally most enjoyable method of shaving available.

Unblocking backgrounds in Flash

Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 31st, 2007

A long while ago I wrote an article describing how to block background elements in Flash. The problem I used to encounter was that my background elements were clickable through other movie clips on the stage. In ActionScript 3.0, this has all changed.

Guitar Hero optimal strategies

Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 20th, 2007

Just when I thought I was starting to get a bit good at Guitar Hero I stumbled upon a site that opened my eyes to an entire new world of Guitar Hero skill.

Thank you Firefox

Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 14th, 2007

I just stumbled upon something in Mozilla Firefox that saved me a lot of time: Recently Closed Tabs.

Flash addXMLPath example

Posted by Chris Inch on Aug. 1st, 2007

I was recently working on an application in Flash which required the use of Flash's Locale class. It didn't take long before I was consulting the documentation for some of the methods and I ran across the addXMLPath method. Too bad a valid example was never included in the documentation.

Celebrating Canada Day with new floors

Posted by Chris Inch on July 3rd, 2007

What a long "long weekend" that was. While most people were outside celebrating Canada's 140th birthday, I was at home installing new bamboo flooring in our dining room and kitchen.