Sometimes I just need to run a quick php test to see what url has been used, specifically to see if it is using SSL. [code snippet]  

So I’ve been asked several times to come in and freelance on jobs that require the final output to be in video format and honestly the process of getting flash to video is not that straight forward.

Exporting flash files to .mov is not as straight forward and clean as you’d hope. There are the hurdles when exporting flash files containing ActionScript, then you have MovieClips in MovieClips which do not animate out in the final export, dropped frames, dropped pixels, [...]

Just a little refresher on setting up a JS class.

To simply create a new JavaScript class create a constructor function and include any properties inside of this. To add methods to the class use the prototype protocol ie. className.prototype.MethodName. [code snippet] The Class can then be instantiated and used as follows: [code snippet]

In my last post I talked about how freelancing in London’s advertising industry promted me to write a blog post on some good flash build principles and practices specifically for flash banner ads. Below I hope are some useful tips that will help streamline production for yourself and those in a team environment. My primary focus is on 3 aspects in building flash banner ads. The first is ensuring the first build is flexible enough to be transformed into multiple dimensions [...]

Flash banners where not something I ever imagined myself working on when I moved into developing flash. But over the last few years I’ve done quite a few and everyone seems to approach the design and development of these quite differently.

Back in New Zealand (where I’m from) if you’re a web design and developer there wasn’t really much of a distinction between the two disciplines, you’re expected to know and perform both. Since travelling to London though and spending time [...]

I always find myself frustrated forgetting something about the XML scheme and the solution is normally right in front of me. This post is to serve as a reminder.

I was writing some classes this morning and decided it was about time I created my own custom XML Loading class. Once the class had loaded the xml I stored the data in a private variable and used a get method to access this data.

The problem I ran into was in [...]