Category Ar! Chives: Flash, Code & Geek Stuff

Other than Youtube an easy, and significantly higher quality video service is Vimeo. It’s pretty much regarded as the professional version of Youtube because of the higher quality videos that you can upload and display without suffering horrendous compression. Vimeo Plus even allows you to embed HD videos… In unlimited amounts! Bang! Holy shit. The [...]

System requirements: *PHP (4.0.4 and up) *MySQL *Apache Server *Flash (If you found this via a google search… Source files for the Flash are at the end of the post…) I love playing around with bots, and especially love lurking on lists like Robitron. Projects like ChatScript & RiveScript are excellent ways of tickling the [...]

typeof is handy but can be a little too flimsy at times. Basically all it really understands are only six possible values; boolean, function, number, object, string, and xml. If you want to run a conditional to check if you’ve got some common ethnic group, such as a movieclip, on your hands then it works [...]

Recently I was asked to throw together an interactive Flash pinpoint map of the US. The requirement was to use XML. It’s been a while since I used XML for dynamic content as such. I’ve been caught using PHP for absolutely everything. It’s nice. Going back to XML felt like jumping into a swimming pool [...]

I’ve been itching to do one for a long time since I keep being asked to do countdown timers. I don’t know why. No one I know ever has need to do one. It’s just one of those weird things that I keep ending up doing. Then there’s always that pesky deadline that keeps me [...]

Here’s a quick particle effect I threw together. Thought I’d put it up here… figuring it might help some hapless googler searching for a quick fix, since it’s a super simple class you can easily reuse or (quite possibly) extend… probably. Click here to preview. The AS (Particle.as) package { import flash.utils.Timer; import flash.events.TimerEvent; import [...]

This is a follow up to my previous post “Loading Twitter Feeds Into Flash (Through PHP)” (Check it out for source code and other resources)… After successfully doing so, the next most obvious question of any Flash developer would be: “Wow, Flash is awesome! So, can I display images and media files in my Flash [...]

-Click to see. Supports ability to retweet, follow, and shows a profile pic. There are many cool things you can do with twitter. See Smashing Magazine’s article “50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers” I like it. Rather inspiring. Twitter is cool. You know you can even grab the coordinates of where the [...]

DOWNLOAD SOURCE FILE Here’s a quick .fla based on quite a bit of digging I dun did, to figure out what buttons you can put into Flash to best enhance your sites social networking capabilities… Oh shit, ouch! Sorry. That last line sounded like I fell out of the marketing department. Of course this example [...]

It has come to my attention that ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL of the facebook “like” button in Flash is a deed not as easy as it appears on the outset. It seems they made an API for everything except for “like”. On embarking into this task, the assumption of any Flash developer is the normal one. [...]

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