Google now supports Flash indexing with external resource loading

Posted by admin on June 19th, 2009 under Web developement  •  No Comments

I like many other Flash and RIA developers have been waiting a long time for this.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html

To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:

  • Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.
  • Discover links within Flash files.
  • Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.
  • Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.
  • Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. Update on June 19, 2009: The version of ActionScript isn’t particularly relevant, but often asked. :) We index sites with AS3 as well.

over 100 emails is the effect of being out of the office for one day

Posted by admin on April 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted by admin on April 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

I’m really pleased to see that the latest version of Ubuntu has been released. I think its great that the opensource community have managed deliver a user friendly OS with the capabilities this project has. Ubuntu enables people access to great computing power with a very good user experience at zero software cost. I think that the efforts of the Ubuntu team should be applauded.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/904features/

What to do when the shit is heading fan wards

Posted by admin on April 3rd, 2009 under Web developement  •  No Comments

1.     Stay calm: Panicking will only stop you from taking the right actions.
2.     Remember: There is always something you can do to limit the damage or improve the outcome. You may not be able to fix it but at this point it is all you can do.
3.     Stop and think: There is always time to plan, if you don’t have a clear plan you will make things worse. So stop think and then act.

Facebook viruses suck

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7918839.stm

Flocking Fast Flash

Posted by admin on December 5th, 2008 under Web developement  •  No Comments

flint_birds

Heres a little something Dan Turner cobbled together earlier, using a bitmap caching animation system from http://touchmypixel.com/ and the Flint particle system. 

It iterates through every frame in your movieclip and caches it, making it quite absurdly fast. Have a play. Sorry the swf isn’t embedded you need to click the link.

Parsley dependancy injection framework for AS3

Posted by admin on December 1st, 2008 under Web developement  •  No Comments

A great collection of Flash and Flex related frameworks.

http://www.spicefactory.org/

More specifically dependancy injection framework for AS3. Brilliant, Thanks to the guys from PowerFlasher.com for pointing this out. 

http://www.spicefactory.org/parsley/

Quicker code hinting in FDT

Posted by admin on November 28th, 2008 under Web developement  •  No Comments

Sick of pressing ctrl_space all the time?   (I know I am)

Heres how to make FDTs code hinting that little bit faster.

http://blog.flashmech.net/2008/10/fdt-tip-boost-your-code-assist/

Multicolr

Posted by admin on October 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

 

images reflecting a Multicolr key

images reflecting a Multicolr key

 

 

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr

I love this project. It searches the creative commons images on flikr by multiple colours really simple idea but results in something just brilliant.

Great little library for isometric Flash and Flex work

Posted by admin on October 13th, 2008 under Web developement  •  No Comments

http://code.google.com/p/as3isolib/

Isometric blocks

Isometric blocks