Step 1: Text Class The Text Loader Class, This is a class used for all the text in the site. It takes a few parameters, most notably your model, or whatever class you are storing…
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translating flash site text and audio part 2
Step 2:Audio Class The Audio Library Class, this is a place to store all the references to the audio files to retrieve them and play them back with the getAudio(id) method. It loads the audio…
scale9Grid Actionscript Scaling Quirks
So the nifty scale9Grid scaling mode for movieclips which allows you to maintain rounded corners or fancy perimeters and whatnot for expandable elements like dialogue boxes or expanding menus has some lame little quirks. You…
The state of education in a rapidly changing environment.
So recently I came across this article regarding future Journalists and what skills they must have: 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist. This got me thinking about colleges and the kinds of Journalism classes they…
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What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?
I read this great post on the simplicity and effectiveness of craigslist and they also talk about how this site like wikipedia yearn for fundamental function over any design quality or extra features. It got…
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backup systems
it seems sometimes it takes a bit of a catastrophe to remind us of the importance of a fail proof backup system. have an automated on-site backup system, using an external hard drive if possible…
simple iconic design
simple iconic design
flash cs4 loading font from external swf
Here is a pretty basic overview of how to load fonts from a .swf, great for sites that have many languages, particularly asian characters, where you may need to specify characters or fonts while not…
flash punk 101
I've been playing recently with Chevy Ray's FlashPunk library, which can be found here. It's a 2d game library built on the premise of bitmapped data for all the speed and performance benefits that comes…
MPMoviePlayerController in iOS4 horizontal
I updated XCode and my iPhone SDK today to the latest 3.2.3 and iPhone OS4 only to find that it broke my video players, so below is the code to play it the same way…