Archive for the “Flash” category

I’m sorry flcodr

by leon on July 15, 2009

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 (…)

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I’ll see you there!

by leon on May 30, 2009

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!!

WordPress as the next Social Networking platform?

by leon on April 9, 2009

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 (…)

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Aspect Ratio Calculator

by leon on December 19, 2008

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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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

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. (…)

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Another month, another mention in Web Designer Mag

by leon on August 12, 2008

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 (…)

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Sorted!!

by leon on August 8, 2008

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 (…)

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