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Starting Out

by leon on January 2, 2012

This summer marks 4 years since I graduated form Birmingham City University with a bachelors degree in MultiMedia Technology. Since then, I’ve worked for a number of companies including the University that I graduated from. In that time I have (…)

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Testing a custom URL shortener

by leon on May 2, 2010

Testing a custom url shortener

jQuery ajax loading widget

by leon on October 14, 2009

Even though i’ve been using jQuery to make web apps for quite a while, this simple function passed me by until quite recently. When loading data asynchronously, the end user doesn’t get any feedback that anything is actually happening (unless (…)

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Really simple jQuery alerts

by leon on June 6, 2009

Over the last few month’s I have been using jQuery more and more in my web projects to do everything from style forms to adding interactivty to lists via drag and drop. In this post I will share with you (…)

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Update to Mashup

by leon on March 2, 2009

So it seems my server got overloaded due to the excessive api calls my lastest mashup was making to the last.fm server. This did work fine when I had it running locally, I may post a video of it in (…)

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How I came to love my Apple TV

by leon on January 4, 2009

(with a little help from my iPhone) So I finally gave in and brought an Apple TV last month and managed to get a little discount thanks to the Thanksgiving Sale. It was a long and arduous decision; I read (…)

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Custom ringtones for your iPhone

by leon on December 16, 2008

Just a quick post to show you a web service that allows you to create and download ringtones for your iPhone. Simply head to http://audiko.net and follow the instructions. Here is one I made earlier: http://audiko.net/ringtone/Roots+Manuva/886290/Buff+Nuff+%28Prod.+By+Toddla+T%29/en.html?fresh

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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GoogleMaps/Locator Panel Error

by leon on August 7, 2008

I have just spotted an error with the location abilities of the two apps I have made that use the GMap component that causes the Flash to crash. As soon as I can I will investigate these errors. Sorry for (…)

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I’m in Web Designer Mag

by leon on July 3, 2008

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 (…)

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