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(Very belated) Seasons greetings!

Posted by James - 21/01/09 at 10:01:09 am

Well, it’s very belated I know, but I’ve a backlog of blog post ideas that I’m working on getting through.

Click on the image above to view MMT Digitals’ December 2008 E-Newsletter. 

Me being the kind of person that rambles on about anything at the slightest provocation, I’ve contributed to the newsletter – writing all about 3D and Papervision.  See what you think.

Introducing ImageSizer 0.4.2

Posted by James - 20/01/09 at 03:01:05 pm

Well, I’m a bit slack on the whole updates front – ImageSizer 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 have already slipped under the radar without a blog post – but with the latest release I thought I’d draw a little attention to it, not least because it fixes a bit an annoying bug that I introduced in version 0.4.1!

So, what’s new in the latest version?

Well, one of the things that I’ve found a lot of AIR applications are missing at the moment, is the ability to configure their settings – particulary those things mentioned by Serge Jespers in his post: “6 AIR features that may annoy your users” [link].  Back with version 0.3.10 I introduced some Pixel Bender filters to the application.  Version 0.4 introduced the Application Settings window – although it only appeared to work.  Version 0.4.1 expanded on this by introducing some backend code that actually stored the settings, but had a glaring typo that meant the whole thing didn’t work.  Version 0.4.2 in short, fixes this.

Continue reading Introducing ImageSizer 0.4.2…

Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API

Posted by James - 20/01/09 at 11:01:49 am

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/

Awesome news, you can actually Geocode UK Postcodes – without having to shell out on licensing costs to Royal Mail.

Ok, so the post may be 2 years old, but I’m a little slow on the uptake.

I Can Haz Community? – Building a fanbase in 15 steps

Posted by James - 20/01/09 at 10:01:57 am

Ben Huh from I Can Has Cheeseburger gives you 15 top tips on how to take your community to the next level, one user at a time.

http://thinkvitamin.com/features/i-can-haz-community/

Preloading FLVs in flash with ActionScript 2.0

Posted by James - 19/01/09 at 05:01:04 pm

Looking at preloading video in ActionScript 2?  Look no further than:

http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/technical/preload-flv-video-in-flash-actionscript-20-2

Using [Bindable] & ChangeWatcher in ActionScript-only classes

Posted by James - 19/01/09 at 10:01:37 am

What are you talking about?

Recently I’ve been toying around with using [Bindable] Metadata in Flex and AS3, namely trying to not only make it so that my static variables can be used as bindings in Flex, but also that I can detect when the variables change.

How do you do that?

There’s a few ways you can do that, and a whole plethora of other blogs that will give you rundowns on how.  What you need to look for are the ChangeWatcher and BindingUtils classes [livedocs].  There doesn’t seem to be anything in particular thats different between them, ChangeWatcher lets you define a variable and function to call on changes, and BindingUtils lets you define functions to call when variables are set or properties change – all in all, not much difference.

But…

Continue reading Using [Bindable] & ChangeWatcher in ActionScript-only classes…

Creating custom chromes for AIR applications in Flex & Flash

Posted by James - 15/01/09 at 05:01:01 pm

Here’s a couple of useful videos from the Adobe TV site.  Yes, a custom chrome is one of the first things that people want to learn how to do, and yes, there’s lots of other tutorials around that talk about this – but even after having read many of these, I still found I picked up a few new ideas and tricks from watching these videos.  So if you’ve got a moment or two, check em out.

Ps.  If you get audio but no video, there seems to be a problem with the embed functionality of Adobe TV videos, so try them from the hyperlinks (which run the videos from the main Adobe TV site).

Creating a custom chrome using Flex

Creating a custom chrome using Flash