We recently selected @matthewwithanm as the winner of the Flashpitt suggestion contest, he will receive a complimentary ticket to Flashpitt.

Prior to choosing a winner we had to decide, just that, how we were going to choose the winner. The obvious way would have been to print off everyones names, cut them up, put them in a hat and pick one. Since it is 2009 I figure I can do better than the analog way and I don’t have to risk trees, paper cuts, or loss of fingers (my scissor skills are not the best), so out comes flash and a 20 min code session begins.

I came up with this little gem, where you enter the number of entries you have and a number greater than or equal to 1. The application uses this number to select a random number to decide how many times the Math.random function is ran before the winner is selected.

i.e. say you put 50 in that section the Application grabs a random number between 1 and 50, say 44, then determines that the 44th random number selected will be the winner.

Test it out here.

I know it’s pretty lame but maybe it will help you in selecting a winner for some drawing your doing. Plus I wanted to post it so when I do another drawing for Flashpitt I can just use this one.

Click here to download the source.

Happy Flashing.

I posted a while back about how I got some adobe stickers! Since then there has be a bunch of stickers added to my laptop so I figured I would post a photo of them.

Mr. MacBook Pro - and his pretty stickers

A quick break down of the stickers, Left to Right, Top to Bottom.

• Guitar Hero Star from GH Sticker pack.
• Adobe Stickers, all CS3, I have the CS4 ones but I don’t like them as much.
• Skullcandy Sticker
• kidrobot sticker
• Flash smashing Flex
• Wine Library TV sticker thanks to Gary Vaynerchuk, I met him at FOWA Miami.
• AIR Sticker

That’s all for now…

OK so I’m back, and hoping to post here more often. I took a long hiatus, with moving, flashpitt and a bunch of freelance stacked on top of the general daily grind, it seems life is calming down a bit, so I’m going to try to start posting more.

New things I’m excited about:

• It’s winter so I’m snowboarding a lot.
• I’m taking a trip to Miami between February 20th and March 2nd.
• I’m taking a trip to Honolulu between March 27th and April 5th.
• My new bike a 2008 Biachi Pista.
• Planning Flashpitt09
• My GPS Data Logger so I can track where I take my photos on Flickr