Archive for the “flash” category

I’m sorry flcodr

by Leon on July 15, 2009

A bit more than a year ago I launched flcodr. It was designed to be a way for me to learn PHP and also organise my actionscript snippets. I decided to open this up to the world so that people (…)

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I’ll see you there!

by Leon on May 30, 2009

At Flash Camp Birmingham that is: I don’t really need to say more than that I don’t think. It promises to be a great day out and hopefully i’ll have a new version of flCodr up for then!!

WordPress as the next Social Networking platform?

by Leon on April 9, 2009

Question : Can WordPress be used as the next social networking platform? Answer: Yes. OK, maybe you want a bit more detail and at least some proof of my exorbitant claims. That proof will be in the form of a (…)

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I’m in Web Designer Mag

by Leon on July 3, 2008

The latest issue of Web Designer Mag recently landed on my door mat and I was pleasantly surprised to see some of my work included in the mag and on their promotional disc. I was contacted by the editor a (…)

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Find me on Adobe Exchange!

by Leon on June 24, 2008

Looking for a Flash extension that will allow you to find a latitude and longitude based on a location? Then you need my locator panel, which is now also available on the Adobe Exchange. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1526018

Visual Tag Clouds

by Leon on June 15, 2008

A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size (…)

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Creating Cross Platform CD-Roms

by Leon on June 4, 2008

Back in my University days having a Mac was not always fun in a Windows dominated campus. I always had to ensure that my disc’s were able to be read in a Windows machine, even though they were burned on (…)

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Flash Fonts

by Leon on June 4, 2008

A constant worry when creating Flash files is “will my font’s look the same everywhere”? If it’s a standard font like Arial then yes, but a custom font will fail unless you embed it. You can embed a font in (…)

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Frowl – Growl style Flash interface

by Leon on June 1, 2008

I have recently created a Growl style Flash interface. Firstly if you don’t know what Growl is then it is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Notifications are a (…)

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AFC Giveaway

by Leon on April 30, 2008

I’ve just heard news that AFC (the creators of GMap amongst others) are to give away all of their AS2 components for free. This is their biggest giveaway ever ($310) and we would appreciate your help spreading the word. You (…)

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