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Apple and Flash and HTML5 | Flash not dead

The main reason I decided to write this was foxtrot: The “community” is bringing out so-called enemies of flash. But I think the web is what it is today to a great part because of flash. I hope apple will one day open up and actually make the best web experience possible by putting flash [...]

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Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0

I’ve written a tutorial which is published over at flash.tutsplus. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer and covers xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!

So check out the Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller [...]

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Stock Flash Site, Introducing 'BuyStockFlash.com'

Buy Stock Flash Sell & Buy Flash Buy or Sell, Start Now – Stock Flash – Royalty Free Stock Flash effects, Video, Audio The New Kid on the block… it’s good to see some competition coming to the stock flash world. BuyStockFlash is revving it up. They are positioned to provide a place where flash-ers [...]

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Web Hosting Search Review

I recently stumbled across a site that could easily help with your web hosting needs. They are called Web Hosting Search and as the name indicates, they don’t offer hosting, but offer a database of different hosting companies which make it easy to search and compare rates and services. I found my current host and [...]

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CreativePro Office | Helping Freelancers Be Tidy

Doing freelancing it seems like half of the work is not the freelancing. It’s administration, accounting, management etc… I got tired of spending my time doing those types of things and started looking for solutions, I quickly found the FREE CreativePro Office by Jeff Denton at UpStart Productions. It has already made my freelance life [...]

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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! | Review

Keith Peter‘s Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! Can I just say WOW! Being a student of art and animation before turning to the flash world, I love how Keith is able to explain programming in terms that are very easy to understand and follow. I’ve been a huge fan of his since I [...]

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StomperNet Strikes Again! with FormulaFIVE

StomperNet has been a ‘buzz’. After Andy’s ‘Mea Culpa‘ why wouldn’t it be… But this is so much better and bigger, learning many lessons from the last launch – StomperNet strikes again! Teamed up with Paul Lemberg a new product called FormulaFIVE (F5 for short). Just launched a video to excite the industry! So check [...]

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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide | Book Review

Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide. This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library. This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background [...]

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Code is good; Books are good; Source and Books are even better!

I’ve been thinking about this blog and what kind of content I want to be creating for the world and yes, you. I really enjoy creating working tutorials and open source project or components available to download and learn from. I make these available so that you are able to pick it apart and hopefully [...]

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Voters Aide, a Google Analytics Event Tracking Report Example

Overview Voters Aide – a little flash app I made in some spare time to help prioritize the issues and positions for the 2008 presidential election. The app would let uses assign a weight to each of the big issues (0 – 100), and then read each candidates positions on every issue and record to [...]

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    WordCamp Presentation Slides: From Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme

    Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi

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    Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2012

    I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]

    Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks

    Zero images is something that always gets me excited, I really like these arrow button styles! I like the css used more and the hover/active states too, nice css3 transitions. via Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks.

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    Snow via Javascript & Canvas – Tis the Season

    After playing with the settings in my experiments I found a few settings I liked and wanted to develop further. The first was snow! An added bonus I was able to work on a project just for the holidays and used much of this code in it! I looked around the web and saw a [...]

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    Link: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

    Mat discusses the options for getting responsive images along with responsive designs. We can use various means (server-side, client-side, mobile-first, html5 data attributes, cookies…), but none are fully satisfactory, especially with new browsers prefetching images before cookies can be set or html is even fully read and parsed. He states that bandwidth sniffing is… a [...]

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    Yiibu – About the site…

    Here’s a great article about the process of responsive design & mobile first design and how to practically use them both in a project. This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web or (Mobile First Responsive Design). via Yiibu – About this site….

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    Link: Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs

    Here’s a great tool to make responsive grid layouts. Thanks to Erskine Labs! Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs.

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    Link: HTML5 multiply filter with canvas | Alberto Gasparin

    Here’s a great little script I found useful today as I was working on having dynamic effects applied to javascript via canvas. “The canvas element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” Thanks to the canvas APIs I was [...]

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