iPhone productivity
by leon on November 28, 2008
As a web designer/developer having an iPhone helps to make being productive just that bit easier. Here are some of the tools and work-flows I use to achieve this: Email Our company currently use Google Apps to provide email and (…)
Flash, XML and foreign characters
by leon on November 20, 2008
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 (…)
Force file to download
by leon on October 28, 2008
A common issue with modern browsers is the fact that they have the ability to open many file types by default. This isn’t usually a problem, unless you want to make sure that a file is downloaded to a user’s (…)
Browser & User interface templates
by leon on October 27, 2008
While creating mock-ups of sites its often useful so see what it will look like in a browser window. For this reason I have created a png of a desktop and mobile safari interface. I find that this is useful (…)
Top resources for web designers
by leon on October 24, 2008
This post is a collection of sites and tools that I find useful when designing sites and interfaces. Coda – Probably the best code editor. Mac only i’m affraid. Coda Clips – An online repository of code snippets that can (…)
Where is TwitterEagle?
by leon on October 21, 2008
It’s been almost a month since I announced TwitterEagle and there is nothing to show (apart from a logo). Sorry about that, i’ve been rather busy and have not had much time to spend on the project. Hopefully, in a (…)
Facebook style Flash interface
by leon on August 18, 2008
Here is my latest offering of notification alerts to Flash – a Facebook style pop up window that supports basic html formatting. It seems that the power of Facebook is everywhere (just take a look at flCodr [try clicking on (…)
Extension update
by leon on August 18, 2008
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
My first web app (sort of)
by leon on August 15, 2008
As you can see from the scree shot above, I have created my first iPhone web app. I say web app loosly as it doesn’ty actually do anything apart from tell you about me!! There is some interactivity however – (…)
Find me
by leon on August 12, 2008
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. (…)