Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
My new portfolio site – williamdady.com
Posted by Will | Filed under Adobe Flash, Personal, Web
Over the last couple of weeks I have slowly been putting together my new portfolio site, williamdady.com, which has been long overdue. The site was developed in FlashDevelop and Flash CS4 using the PureMVC framework.
I had a very specific design goal from the beginning to maintain a modular structure, something that PureMVC was a big help at pulling off. Sections are segregated into their own SWF’s each with an accompanying background SWF which in-turn contains multiple background images.
The main shell, the top-most parent SWF, is responsible for the layout of the modules as well as controlling the navigation. I utilized BulkLoader in the shell to handle the loading of module and background SWF’s as a pair. I’ve used BulkLoader a few times now and I it’s a really handy tool which all AS3 devs should have in their library.
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Flash Player 10 released
Posted by Will | Filed under Adobe Flash, Web
With Adobe Flash CS4 about to be released any day now it’s no surprise that Flash Player 10 has been officially released, surpassing Flash Player 9.
Flash Player 10 is sure to bring a new wave of cool and interesting interactions to the web as developers begin to come to gribs with it’s powerful new features such as 3D, Inverse Kinematics and custom filter effects using Pixel Bender.
Get it now from Adobe’s site.
Sending data with LocalConnection in Flash
Posted by Will | Filed under Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Advertising, Banners, Experiments, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Web
As a follow up to my previous post titled “How to communicate between multiple Flash files with LocalConnection” I’m going to demonstrate a slightly more advanced way of using the LocalConnection object in Flash. (more…)
Google Calculator
Posted by Will | Filed under Web
Did you know that Google search can return the results of complex equations? What’s great about it is you can often write equations in plain English.
I would safely say that I use Google for calculation more often than I use the Windows calculator for the simple reason that my web browser is always open. I’m also willing to bet Google would return the result faster than the time it would take me to open my desktop calculator application.
Below are some of the different types of math queries you can enter directly into Google’s search field:
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