FLASH

Brendan Perry

Friday, October 31st, 2008

How do you cram a multi-layered works archive, full screen photo gallery, two channel music player, Yahoo Maps guestbook, RSS-friendly news engine and script-driven aurora borealis into a minimalist Flash website? Answer: Brendan-Perry.com.
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No Surprises Events

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

No Surprises Events

When “No Surprises” - a company based in Nigeria - called us back in January, I was predictably suspicious - all I’d previously had in the way of email from Nigeria were countless offers of $19,000,000 for the use of my bank account…
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A short post for Tweeners

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Forget Adobe’s Tween class.

Get thy ass over to Greensock and get TweenLite. I simply can’t believe how much it improved the performance of my stuff.

iPhone and SWFObject

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I noticed that although SWFObject (javascript for displaying Flash with a reasonably graceful HTML fallback) works on iPhones from a javascript point of view, the Flash content itself fails. So iPhone users are left looking at a blank screen… hardly particularly cool, eh? Solution (uses PHP) follows…

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Where did “_url” go?

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

In ActionScript 1 and 2, there was a useful property - “_url” which would return the location of the SWF running the script. In ActionScript 3, it is gone, but its new big brother will help you…

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