So it’s the day after my presentation on Flash Localization. I was quite happy with how things panned out, given I had been a presentation virgin prior to last night. The presentation didn’t hurt nearly as much as I was afraid of. At least it didn’t hurt me . Thanks to AKQA for the venue, [...]

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As myself and Mike (flashgen.com) have mentioned previously we were heavily involved in Flash ‘way back in the day’. During the time we were cutting our teeth in flash’s infancy we were involved in some (IOHO) pretty slick projects. Now if you want those to be seen EVER again we need to get some release [...]

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It all started at university. Microsoft or MSN Australia I think it was, that was the first ‘flash’ movie I saw. And it changed everything I had seen on the web until then. Of course unlike everything else on the web at that time there was no way to see how they had done it. [...]

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The London Flash User Group site has now been updated. I will be giving my first ever public flash presentation. My chosen specialist subject will be localisation techniques for flash. This is something I have been banging my head against for some time, and as a result like to think I may be able to [...]

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I’ve personally been using the XPathApi in flash for a little while. I don’t remember how I came across it initially, but I do know that I use it in almost every project I have worked on lately. However it has been bought to my attention by a colleague that not everyone has fallen across [...]

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A flash micro site for Sony I worked on is now Live here. The site should eventually be available localized across Europe.

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Shortly after working on the Ford S-Max micro site, I was involved in a second Multilingual Flash Micro Site for ford. This one is an update for the Ford Fusion and the first Market to launch the site is the Czech Republic. The site make uses a similar XML driven content system to the Ford [...]

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There have been a few posts already regarding the decision by Adobe to re-version the Flash Player 8.5 to Flash Player version 9. The reasons do seem valid with respect to the differences between the version 8 Flash Player currently available and the new Flash Player 8.5/9. Having used Flash now for close to 10 [...]

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After a brief break to test my new surf board I arrived back in London to trawl the in box of its usual detritus of spam and try and find the emails that I actually need. In amongst them was the news that a project I have had the great pleasure to be involved in [...]

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This week while working on another multilingual flash site, this time in Flash 8 I came across this interesting feature/bug with the new Flash 8 text anti aliasing. Let me explain the move below. The top section of the movie uses text fields with the anti-aliasing setting set to “anti-alias for readability” which is placed [...]

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It has been bought to my attention that the ‘Plain Text’ link of the iG:Syntax Hiliter plug-in I have been using for WordPress does not operate to well. Also some of the Flash ActionScripts I have been posting are rather large and so take a while to display and be formatted correctly. As a result [...]

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** UPDATE ** Due to issues being reported with regard to the plain text view of the code hilighter i am using here i have zipped the current LoadQueueManager Class and put it on its own downloads page HERE ** UPDATE ** Previously I had posted a code ‘snippet’ for a Load Queue Manager Class [...]

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Following these posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. flashAnt avrians place Information Week It would appear that some of the earliest flash and generator work myself and some of my colleges were involved in back in the earliest days of flash has broken one of the most ludicrous patent awards I have heard of. Neil Balthaser [...]

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So I have been pretty busy of late with development of a simple Ford Micro Site. This is certainly one of the most interesting projects i have been able to work on in a while, and I have to say seems to be showing a trend towards flexible, yet visually strong multilingual sites. Previously i [...]

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The first domain name i ever owned, that was stolen away from me by a search engine Is back in my grasp.

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