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Securing Your Online Identity Now that Gawker Has Been Compromised

If you haven’t heard, Gawker and all of their sister sites have been compromised. If you signed up for that site as a commentor odds are your username, password, and email have been leaked. The posts on Lifehacker have done an good job of letting you know you should beef up your security as soon as possible. This post is intended to tell you how you can actually go about doing that immediately. Seriously, don’t be lazy with this. A soft identity theft like getting into your Facebook account can easily turn into a full blown problem. Read More...

Kevin Becker

Article by Kevin Becker | December 17th, 2010 — 4:03pm

How to publish Flash .exe and .app files for fullscreen viewing

You’ll occasionally find your client asking you for an executable version of the application you built them. Chances are they’ll also want that executable to open fullscreen, which involves a tricky (but easy) fix for .app files on the Mac. Read More...

Michael Becker

Article by Michael Becker | May 11th, 2010 — 2:46pm

Flash Rich Media Banner Optimization Guidelines

If you’re a Flash developer, at some point in time you’ve had to build and optimize rich media banners for your clients. Establishing a consistent workflow and following some simple guidelines is the key to success in banner optimization. Read More...

Michael Becker

Article by Michael Becker | May 7th, 2010 — 7:29am

Reformatting MySQL date (yyyy-mm-dd) from a database with PHP

Storing the current date along with new data into a MySQL database table is a piece of cake. Now retrieving it and converting it to the proper format is pretty complex…or is it? Learn how to easily convert a MySQL date record into a more recognizable format. Read More...

Michael Becker

Article by Michael Becker | February 19th, 2010 — 10:04am

AS2 Refresher: Loading External Bitmaps with loadClip()

The AS2 refresher series aims to consolidate basic, everyday snippets for the most common tasks used by Flash developers working with legacy files. Read More...

Michael Becker

Article by Michael Becker | February 15th, 2010 — 9:05am