Thank you for your hard work, and for teaching us the ways of Tweenmax/Tweenlite. As a flash developer, designer, and motion graphics lover, I’m constantly learning new ways to evolve my work. It’s people like you who inspire and challenge.

I truly appreciate your path and the method in which you teach. If you’ve got more video tutorials, I’d love to learn from them.

God bless,

Blake

i’m a shockingly green fan of your excellent work, and greatly appreciate what you have done for this community! i’m having a bad week, though, really getting dragged down by steve jobs’ ridiculous refusal to support flash on the iPhone and iBad (so over hyped)! as a long time website designer, and a HUGE fan of flash, i would like to hear what you have to say about this. i’m in vancouver but would love to get my hands on the htv evo g4 when it’s available here, mainly because it supports flash. do you think that google and adobe will make jobs eat his words? i hope that blackberry follows suit soon… i’d be very sad if flash was pushed out – i love being both a designer and programmer, and i still think that flash is the best thing that happened to the internet (i was building cd roms in director, hoping for something internet based, way back in the ‘early days’)

thanks, jodi

But I agree when Jack says that one can not blame religion or doctrines such as Christianity for what man chooses to do.

I am not religious but I had a religious education and it is true the Bible is an amazing book to read, I even if one is not religious, one can understand concepts such as myth or symbolism for example, and Jesus’ words written there are just words of love, tolerance and from a very intelligent man.
For me he was just human like all of us but most likely with his hyper dimensionality (say “quantum”) unlocked and therefore capable of doing things we usually say that are paranormal.
But nonetheless he spoke always of “Love”.

I don’t conceive God as an entity that is somewhere watching to punish or to love us.
God is Intelligent Design because the Universe is Intelligent Design, and we are all a part of it, therefore we are also God.
We are not a fruit of random, there is nothing random in this Universe, and humans were not created by chance, we have a meaning and a purpose and we are special although we are stuck in our linear perception of reality and are still not able to look beyond that.

Above all, what I think is that spirituality is unique to each individual, there is not one truth because each person has its own perception of reality. We are all heading towards the same point by choosing different ways.
Therefore we just need to respect each one’s pursue of a spiritual path according to one’s free choice and not try to make someone come to ours just because it fits what we think it is best.

Faith is different than religion, it is an approach to Love. You can have faith in all sorts of things rather than only religion: faith in yourself, in human kind, in art, in action script… it doesn’t matter.

What it matters is if it helps you on your path, if it makes you happy, if it makes you soar, gives you strength and patience, and maturity enough to deal with your challenges and your fears.

The truth is, I hardly ever find anything that I can honestly commend anyone for. Most of the time, if there’s a bridge I just cannot seem to cross as a programmer, I peek at someone’s code to figure out the solution. It is usually at that time – when I have been properly inspired (after smacking my forehead a few times in disbelief at how simple the answer was in the first place) – I implement my own logic and/or write my own code. (That said, I have never ‘copy/paste’d anything; I hand-write everything myself.)

To keep from further wandering off course and off topic, I’ll go ahead and say it … GREAT FRIGGIN’ JOB, MAN! You’re a life-saver! I swore to myself that I would never use a code/class/framework/application from anyone or any group … EVER!

… buuuuut …

I’m a developer … but I mostly work with static xhtml/CSS/JavaScript/PHP/ASP.NET-C#; Flash is a beast all its own. I played around with Flash a few years ago (back in the days of Macromedia), but was deterred by the lack of maturity in ActionScript. It wasn’t to me what I would consider to be a truly Object Oriented Programming language – not to mention the fact that it just wasn’t natural for me. There were other problems I had with it (some from a design stand-point; others from a developer’s), but they were too many to mention here.

Recently, however, I acquired a project that required me to utilize Flash. I didn’t realize just how much it had changed from the days of “onEnterFrame = function () { // yadda, yadda, yadda }”. I was actually wowwed! One problem: I was used to the old ways. Data handling in Flash is now easy for me, yes, because AS3 resembles that of what I’m used to: strongly-typed languages (i.e. C# ). Tweening, however, isn’t as greatly documented as, per se, C# is. But this project I have is very time-sensitive. So, while having to steepen my learning curve, I still needed a fast way to implement simple animations on the fly with as little code as possible so I can concentrate on what mattered: data transformation and manipulation.

Finally, we come to the point: I stumbled accross this framework last night and was able to solve fifteen separate and distinct tweening issues I couldn’t get my head around. I was able to finish out three “pages” in one night, whereas – before my moment of serendipity – I had spent the last week on one page. If only I had stumbled accross this sooner!

Today, I bought the “Shockingly Green” membership package as my way of saying, “Thanks!” … because I know I’m going to NEED this package. I may be able to meet my deadline after all.

Thank you very much, Jack. You’ve done a wonderful job with this and I hope you keep it going.

Jack, how did your spiritual awakening take place after so long?

I’ve been heavily into Flash for a few years and just discovered your site, which will now be a project for a few nights. Wonderful stuff!

I also appreciate your profession of Christ.

We know that man was created in the likeness of God. I find that Flash allows me to express a characteristic of that likeness. The stage is my universe. I add, subtract, make rules, and break rules. I can create whatever I want, and then I rest. Just like the Lord Jesus. The world was his stage. All things in nature were subject to him. Even with all that power he lowered himself, took my place, and atoned for my failures that I might rest in his work, and not be trapped in a constant state of condemnation.

I know and understand why people view Christianity as a prison that a system of men have created to gain power over the individual, and no doubt this does exist in any organizational structure. It wasn’t until I personally experienced who Jesus Christ was and meant on my OWN that I found out that it was a profound freedom, and not a prison. It was freedom from my narcissistic attitudes, from judging people by various social statuses, from hating the guy in the car in front just because he’s in my way. I have found peace in him.

Thanks again for your help; it’s so refreshing to stumble upon such a bright spot in the dark internet.