What is Flex?
I suppose sometimes as a Flex or Flash developer you are so immersed in the whole SWF ecosystem that occasionally you get asked a question that should be easy to answer but becomes difficult to explain to someone without a technical perspective.
The other day I was preparing a spec and getting a colleague to double [...]
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10 things any digital agency must do to work effectively
I just started working part time at a new small digital agency the other day and I noticed there were several things that I would normally take for granted that simply were not set up in this agency so I thought today I would share my thoughts on the things every leading agency needs to [...]
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Introduction to collision detection & 2D physics
This is an introductory tutorial on collision detection and physics. Creating 2D physics is often daunting to the beginner flash programmer but as you will soon see it is really not that hard so long as you break everything down into small steps. Here we are going to create a world and populate it with [...]
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Bash Scripting a new SVN Repository with Plesk API
I have recently found myself trying to automate setting up SVN repositories for my projects via shell scripts and thought I would share how I did it. I needed a script that would create a new SVN repository linked to a global user and password file. Since I was already using plesk I needed it [...]
Compiling Flex Classes in Flash CS3
Yes it is possible and these folks here have found out a way to do it:
http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/12/25/using-flex-compiled-code-within-flash/
Simple. Logical of course the classes are available because of the way flash works. I was going to spend two days rewriting the rpc classes!! Very interesting stuff they’re doing over there….
Firefox Search Plugin Localization
Are you also living in a forreign country and want your firefox search results to return in english?
Alter the Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml simply so that all the URLs within the XML file point to www.google.co.uk!!
This has been driving me crazy and is so easy to fix!
Apache Virtual Hosts iTunes and cant connect to port 0.0.0.0:80
I recently attempted to install Apache webserver for local development and had a tough time getting it to start as it couldnt connect to port 80 on localhost. I found out that the problem was iTunes and all the stupid services it installs. somehow iTunes had taken over my port 80 on 127.0.0.1. so before [...]
SEO and Flash
I have been doing a bit of research on the subject of SEO accessibility and full flash websites and have put together a few responses on common queries or concerns regarding the subject:
Flash can not be indexed by google using flash is bad for SEO.
Users cannot click the back button in a flash site
Users cannot [...]
How to calculate the intersection of two circles mathematically in Actionscript.