I’ve been meaning to release the theme of this blog for ages, yet I never really got around to finishing it. After a bit of consideration I’ve decided to go for the easy option and just release it “as is”. It’s based on Sandbox and is therefore GPL-licensed. Otherwise I’d release it under my personal [...]
Tag Archives: Flash / Actionscript
Capture key sequences in ActionScript 3. AKA The Konami Comeback.
June 6, 2009 – 12:43
Lately the internet has had a wave of sites using the cherished Konami Cheatcode to reveal easter eggs or similar functionality in the site or app. I wrote a (crappy but working) class to implement such functionality in ActionScript about a year ago here. I decided to polish it up a bit for the benefit [...]
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter
March 22, 2009 – 18:26
Update!! Yahoo did the same dick move of cockblocking Flash. :/ To remedy this the URLRequest on line 80 had to be changed. If your project used to work but doesn’t anymore; Try this. If this is your first time here; Ignore this message. — Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. So, I saw that I’m still [...]
ActionScript 3 URL validator class
February 2, 2009 – 16:31
Fairly robust AS3 utility class for evaluating, parsing and tagging URLs.
Silly string
March 24, 2008 – 15:41
Actionscript generated prettiness by the ever-awesome Keith Peters.
Google indexes Flash Sites
August 16, 2007 – 13:21
A usual complaint about Flash (and verily; the reason I have advised many people to avoid extensive use of Flash in the past) is that google and other spiders doesn't index Flash content. Well lo and behold! Google now indexes the content in .swf files! This is quite a revolutionary step forward for Flash developers [...]
Things I wish they’d told me about Flash
May 4, 2007 – 12:03
Just to get started I'll repost this entry which got a bit of positive feedback when I first wrote it. Flash has really matured the last couple of years, and noone (well… few) are still arguing that Flash is unsuitable for anything but irritating intro-animations and mystery meat navigation. Google, MySpace and YouTube are embracing [...]
