Entries from August 2006

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August 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

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Tags: BitTube Humor · BitTube Thoughts

Save the world through Optimization.

August 21st, 2006 · No Comments

This morning I stumbled onto this link via the WordPress news site. I followed the post through to digg and found some interesting comments on Optimization which I hadn’t considered. As we continue to move towards a more prolific Mobile Web optimization becomes ever more important. Properly Optimized content saves money. It saves your clients [...]

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts · Development

Balthaser patent .180 reexamination

August 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments

As Mike over at Flashgen.com and also Aral Balkan reports it seems someone is looking to contest the ridiculous Balthaser RIA patent that was reported a while ago by a number of Flash developers. I have also been contacted by Oliver Lorenz with regard to providing more information and certainly urge anyone that wants to [...]

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Tags: .Net · AJAX · ActionScript 2 · ActionScript 3 · BitTube Work · Development · Flash 7 · Flash 8 · Flash 9 · Flash Lite · Flash for PSP · Flex 2 · PortableApps · Ruby

Do you use WordPress or MovableType?

August 17th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Since MoveableType been made freely availible for personal use I thought I would try and find out what peoples feelings are on MovableType. Currently I am using WordPress, which operates absolutely fine, but, and I am sure I am not alone here. I like to play with new toys :D.
So if you are a MovableType [...]

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts

Ant Build.xml for ASDocs Generation in Eclipse

August 15th, 2006 · 11 Comments

I am an avid user of eclipse and so this evening knocked together this simple Ant build.xml file. The file allows generation of AS3 class ASDocs from within the Eclipse IDE. I am not an Ant master, far from it, so if anyone has any ideas on making this more usefull feel free to leave [...]

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Tags: ActionScript 3 · Development · Flash 9 · Flex 2

My Little Bit O’ Flash History

August 14th, 2006 · No Comments

With all the bruhaha around Flash being 10 years old I thought I would shamelessly hop on the band wagon. As many will be aware Mike Jones (FlashGen.com) and I have been pumping out all manner of Flash for pretty much the 10 years that Flash has been around. There were some good things some [...]

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Tags: BitTube Work

Happy Birthday Flash! 8 years old today!

August 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Those first 2 years didn’t count. “The first true wave of flash sites” was in 1998?? If only I had known DOH!!

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Tags: BitTube Thoughts

Landrover Go Beyond, Phase 2 Launched

August 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Wunderman Interactive have just launched the second phase to the Land Rover Go Beyond site. The site offers user generated input to the content base and utilises a lot of Flash 8 features, with the back end being controlled through Flash Remoting. The challenges on such a flexible project are immense, it was a pleasure [...]

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · BitTube Work · Flash 8 · Localization

Flash Localization - Managing Text & Fonts pt.1

August 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I have had a number of emails, messenger texts, and comment’s on my blog, asking for further information from my presentation notes on localizing flash. Localizing flash has such a wide scope of information, when I prepared my presentation I did take the ‘data blast’ approach of delivery.
I had a good idea the area(s) [...]

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Tags: ActionScript 2 · ActionScript 3 · BitTube Work · Development · Flash 8 · LFPUG · Localization