Loading an external swf with parameters in the URL

Recently I needed to load an external swf with parameters in the URL (eg. file.swf?foo=bar). The reason was to prevent loading of any cached version of the swf by adding…

Fifty 50s

Fifty50s is my little Happy 50th Birthday wish to McCann. It’s an interactive gallery of fifty images that have the number 50 in them. They’re sourced from Flickr and each…

AS3 Drawing Utility Class

Trying to work as much in pure AS3 as I can on projects, I’m often dynamically drawing simple shapes like squares, rectangles and circles. Rather than re-writing the drawing methods…

AS3 Bandwidth Checker

A while back I worked on an FLV player where it gave the user a choice between viewing the high or low quality version of each video. But because the…

AS3 version of PHP’s empty() function

When working in PHP I often find the empty() function handy for checking whether a variable is empty or has a zero value. It’s great because I can use it to…

Create Dynamic XML With PHP’s DOMDocument Class and Use It In Your Flash App

I was reading up on PHP’s DOMDocument Class recently and it’s really handly if you want to dynamically create HTML or XML files from PHP.

One practical application would be to create…

Calling all Melbourne Flash developers

I have created The Melbourne Flash Developers Happy Hour – a regular social event for Flash Developers in Melbourne. Just a chilled out event where you can come and meet…

Cannonballz Augmented Reality Game

This is cool. Zugara have just launched a new Augmented Reality Game called CannonBallz. It’s the first AR game to use ZugMo Motion Capture Technology, Flash and Facebook making both you…

Execute dynamic javascript from Flash with ExternalInterface

So I was playing around with the ExternalInterface class earlier today and wondered if I could call dynamic javascript with it, as opposed to the standard approach of calling an…

75 Ways to Encourage Children

As parents there’s really no excuse for not encouraging and building up your children. Where else will they get it from? But if for some reason you’re stuck for what…

Movies On The Coke Side Of Life

Some nice little claymation here. These three ads were created by Saatchi & Saatchi in Denmark for Coca-Cola as cinema intro spots asking the audience to consider other guests and…

10 Games in 10 Hours

Game developer Mark Cooke set himself a challenge to make 10 games in 10 hours. He actually completed the challenge in 9 hours and 27 minutes (Say what!). Mark presented the…

Running the Numbers by Chris Jordan

This set of images by Chris Jordan is just amazing. Each image shows a specific statistic/quantity (two million plastic beverage bottles for example – the number used in the US…

The Deep Font Challenge

Call yourself a designer? Think you know your VAG from your Bembo? There’s only one way to find out….

Play the Deep Font Challenge

P.S. Post your score here in the comments…

Spam Architecture

I always enjoy seeing creative ways of visualising data and Alex Dragulescu’s Spam Architecture is another great example.

The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that…