Flash, Web and Javascript development


  • I’m sorry flcodr

    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 could share. The site is by no means perfect and it was my plan to [...]

  • Essential tools for Web Dev/Design on a Mac

    It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software that gets attracted to the platform. Sure, there are other products that work or have [...]

  • Really simple jQuery alerts

    Over the last few month’s I have been using jQuery more and more in my web projects to do everything from style forms to adding interactivty to lists via drag and drop. In this post I will share with you my simple jQuery alert plugin – altertr. About Alertr is a simple jQuery alert plugin. [...]

  • I’ll see you there!

    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!!

  • Use your iPhone as a wireless speaker

    This post will show you how to use your iPhone as a wireless speaker so that you can stream your iTunes library (or any application) to your iPhone. (This will only work within Wi-Fi range of your computer running iTunes) This set is up uses the following: MacBook (2008 model) iPhone 3G 8Gb (Jailbroken) iTunes Airfoil Airfoil [...]

  • WordPress as the next Social Networking platform?

    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 brand new flCodr.com – a site designed to share and submit snippets of actionscript code. [...]

  • How I find new music using my iPhone

    Over the weekend I updated my iTunes library and I now have over 23,482 songs. Due to my iPhone having only 8GB of storage space there was no way that I could have all that music with me all of the time, but with a few apps I don’t need to physically carry my music with [...]

  • Update 2 – Last.fm/Spotify mashup

    Here is the video of the mashup in action. I’m thinking up a new idea using the Last.fm api that will hopefully work better. As this was just a proof of concept it won’t be released any time soon.

  • Update to Mashup

    So it seems my server got overloaded due to the excessive api calls my lastest mashup was making to the last.fm server. This did work fine when I had it running locally, I may post a video of it in action instead of the demo. In the meantime I am thinking of another tool. The [...]

  • Another Last.fm/Spotify mashup

    A month or so ago I hacked the last.fm for wordpress plugin to allow for integration with Spotify. The basic  idea was that the plugin would pull in your recently played tracks and then allow users to open those tracks directly within Spotify by clicking on a green note. A had a spare two hours [...]

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