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I’ll see you there!

leon — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:20:33 +0000

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!!

Aspect Ratio Calculator

leon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:48:07 +0000

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

leon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:52:49 +0000

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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Extension update

leon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:03:02 +0000

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

leon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:27:31 +0000

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

leon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:56:51 +0000

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!!

leon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:17:26 +0000

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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I’m in Web Designer Mag

leon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:40:26 +0000

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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Visual Tag Clouds

leon — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:55:00 +0000

A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size (…)

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Creating Cross Platform CD-Roms

leon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:36:59 +0000

Back in my University days having a Mac was not always fun in a Windows dominated campus. I always had to ensure that my disc’s were able to be read in a Windows machine, even though they were burned on (…)

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