Dive into the archives.
- 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!!
- Aspect Ratio Calculator
This is my latest Flash extension panel – Ratio Calc. We’ve all been there, creating a video player for an application and having the task of working out the aspect ratio, or perhaps resizing images or even just trying to work out the size of the stage. This tool will do it for you with [...]
- Flash, XML and foreign characters
The Scenario You are creating a Flash project that feeds text in from an external XML file. The text is currently in English but there is a requirement that the text be changed to other languages. The Problem You have added foreign characters such as é, ü or ß and they don’t show up in [...]
- Extension update
Just a quick note about our sister site – flCodr. There is an update available for the extension panel. Find out more about it here: www.flcodr.com/download.php
- Find me
My latest Flash based location app is called Find Me and is basically a mash up using Google Maps API, the GMap Flash component and a geo-ip script that tweets your location on Twitter. Take a look at it here. Please note that is in beta at the moment. You will also need a Twitter [...]
- Another month, another mention in Web Designer Mag
Not that I mean to show off or anything, but I was in Web Designer Mag again this month. This time they were featuring my Locator panel extension for the GMap component. The extension is a search engine for latitude and longitude co-ordinates that can be entered into the GMap component as points on a [...]
- Sorted!!
After many hours of hard work by the team here at the SizzlaMedia offices (ok just me, in the study) the problem with the GMap powered apps has been fixed. Turns out a Google Analytics script was somehow appearing in the Flash apps. Once I removed the script everything seemed to work just fine! Hopefully [...]
- I’m in Web Designer Mag
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 month or two ago about flCodr – the online repository for actionscript snippets. The site [...]
- Visual Tag Clouds
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 or color. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags [...]
- Creating Cross Platform CD-Roms
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 a Mac. After looking over some of my files I decided to share with the [...]
