Ajar Productions » links http://ajarproductions.com/blog Animation | Design | Development Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Article Round-up http://ajarproductions.com/blog/2010/10/19/article-round-up/ http://ajarproductions.com/blog/2010/10/19/article-round-up/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:37:55 +0000 Justin http://ajarproductions.com/blog/?p=646 We’re keeping quite busy around here! Here’s a quick round-up of some recent articles that I’ve published.

5 Flash Animation tips in 5 days on the Peachpit blogs:

Also on the Peachpit site, there’s an excerpt on Character Animation from our recent book with Chris Georgenes.

I also have a new video tutorial over at ActiveTuts+ on Creating Advanced Motion Presets in Flash with JSFL.

In addition to the recent advice page I added on Learning Flash, I’m working on a page about becoming a graphic designer/Flash animator/digital artist. It includes some of my background and lessons learned. That article is pretty much on hold as we work toward the SmartMouth release (hopefully just another week), and I will pick it up after that.

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Kudos to both of them. Hopefully more organizations will follow suit.

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Source: The Flash Blog.

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I’m a Firefox user, so I went looking for an add-on that would do the same thing in Firefox. While it’s not quite as organized (i.e., it isn’t structured in a tree menu like the Activity Window), the “generate” tab of livehttpheaders is a pretty close substitution.

Originally found on What Do I Know.

UPDATE:  As Tim notes below, Firebug also has this capability. It’s under the ‘net’ section of the Firebug window. You have to choose to enable this feature before you see anything.


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Ajar Homepage Screen Capture

It’s pretty minimal, but it’s better than a placeholder.

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