I’m very excited, there will be a lot of change in the Front End department where I worked as a project manager for the last 5 month. My direct superior, Marco, who is heading the department, leaves to another job… My director announced my last weekend that I will be taking his places as the… Read More »
New article in Flash Developer Center: The reflect Class from Ben Pritchard […]This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class, a custom ActionScript 3.0 class that you can apply to reflections on movie clips […]. The Reflect class is intended for any developer or designer who would like to achieve an effect… Read More »
Via Technology review, […]After 30 years, it’s finally reached a point where it can be brought into the world[…] A search engine that would finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages, I’m dreaming about it, they said they nearly achieve it! We will have to… Read More »
Just read via Balagopal NKnair’s blog the opening of the Nokia Beta Labs. The latest beta app is a Mobile Server to access your mobile directly via Internet: Mobile Web Server lets you name your device and make it accessible in the Internet with a browser. The software includes several applications from content creation to… Read More »
As I use more and more the SWFObject, I took some time to create a Dreamweaver extension that insert the SWFObject Script and the Div with most of the options I ever need with it. I just tested it on DW CS3, and it worked well as long as you are in design or split… Read More »
Two days ago I published my attempt to build a tool helping me to analyze the positioning of a website in function of the keywords used. Now this SEO tool can do much more: Analyze the results from Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com Analyze up to 4 website positioning in the same time Analyze an array… Read More »
More and more web designer make early work for integrating the SEO techniques to their design (files name, title, link and image attributes…). But unfortunately we often have to face a website already existing. In my point of view the number one priority is to know who are the most important competitors (in terms of… Read More »
A new ActionScript 3.0 tutorial is just out, thanks to the awful weather we got here in Geneva… This tutorial is about interaction between ActionScript and JavaScript. Calling functions from both languages is really easy since Flash8 and it did not change with Flash CS3. In this tutorial we call function from AS to JS… Read More »
Finally, I found the time to make a new video tutorial about AS3: How to send and receive values to/from a database with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0. Using a server sided script (in this example php). Basically it will do simply what you could do so hardly with AJAX: asynchronous request. I used Captivate… Read More »
I was reading the post from Google Webmaster Central (link via FlashEnabled), about the best uses of Flash. Someone (Jason) commented that the was to use JavaScript (SWFObject) to make the Div replacement, another one warned him about the danger as being considered as cloaking by the Google Bot. Personally I used this technique in… Read More »
Since the first time I’ve heard about Papervision I’ve always been stunned by the demo provided. Today is a great day as they are going live for their Public Beta. Papervision3D moves from private testing to a full public beta. Everybody is welcome to download and start playing with it. We believe you will find… Read More »
The W3C offer to test the new beta of the W3C html/Xhtml validator services (checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, etc.) There are a number of cosmetic and UI changes, but the biggest difference is under the hood: the new validator is using a new library as a wrapper around its… Read More »
[via: Beedigital, draw.logic] Source code to download of pathfinding with AS3 in 3D! The actionscript architect Paul Spitzer has posted two killer demos of pathfinding using A* in AS3/Flash 9 using the Away3D engine (derivative of Papervision3D that is taking off) and you can download the source for both. These demos not only highlight the… Read More »
After offering the Ebook “AIR for Flex Developers“, Danny Dura, Kevin Hoyt and Mike Chambers has release a new book: AIR for JavaScript Developers. The free Ebook is available on Ajaxian. The pocket guide covers: Introduction to AIR Getting Started with AIR development Working with JavaScript and HTML within AIR AIR Mini Cookbook Command line… Read More »
Passing vars from JS to AS3 is really easy, but it’s not as easy as it was with AS2. Here I use the excellent SWFObjects (I use it in all my web projects now) to pass variables to the Flash Player: so.addVariable(“var1”, “value1”); so.addVariable(“var2”, “value2”); Now to get the values with AS3 when you already… Read More »