I was just created a flash simulation of what happens when you move an object in front of a convergent lens. When the object is moved back and forth its image will react to the movement. It all had to happen with Actionscript 2 too. Check the result here.... Read More

Update: I just got a mail from Julien Iafrancesco:... Read More

In an earlier article I spoke about changing the stage size based on the URL of the page that loads the ShockWave.

Well as it turns out the simple approach I outline there won’t work in IE7 for some reason (no don’t ask me why, I didn’t find any explanation no matter how much googling I did).... Read More

I just finished making the support document for Dive Admin, I did it in Flash by replicating the interface of the application and adding a lot of elements explaining it, as well as navigational interactivity. This approach should be easier for the end user to work with than having a 200 page manual where the feature he wants help with is on page 143, paragraph 5.... Read More

Changing the stage size can’t really be done in a pure sense just with AS, unfortunately.... Read More

I’ve just finished remaking the menu/banner of Sea Bees, one of the bigger diving shops here in Phuket. ... Read More

The other day I needed something to check which version of flash player a user has. It’s all connected to the new problems with uploading that were introduced in Flash player version 10. For some reason the solution we are using needs to know if the player is of version 10 or lower in order to act accordingly. For some reason this will solve a problem with IE6 having a player version lower than 10, don’t ask me why, I’m not the one implementing this. My only mission was to detect version.... Read More

So Flash Player version 10 won’t stand for any automatically opened file select windows, there goes our flash uploader down the drain, the article is still good as a reference though if something here is unclear, it’s much more verbose. It’s just that the old logic needs a button and I’m not going to learn how to do that in Flex at the moment. And the whole point of that scheme was to make the uploader invisible and therefore design agnostic. Oh dear Adobe people, what on earth are you thinking?... Read More

The other day I had to figure out how to load a shockwave into a wordpress post, I decided to do it with jQuery jFlash. I always edit in HTML mode so I could just paste the following in my article:... Read More

I’ve got some kind of compulsory disorder. Sometimes I just have to do some simulations, play with physics and get a break from normal web development. I haven’t had an “episode” in over two years now (view the last one), but a few days ago all this pent up need just had to be released and this tutorial is the uber-geeky result. Just touch the spheres with the mouse pointer, not too fast or you’re gonna break out of orbit!

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