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Modern MIME-TYPE’s we should all add to our websites

Been updating the mime types of my servers recently as I develop more html content and came across a number that I hadn’t needed to worry about before. With the advent of font embedding becoming more available outside of IE … Continue reading

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Getting Omniture s_code.js to play nice with HTML 5 video

Omniture produces some great tracking reports and generally their code is really well produced, but the documentation is sorely lacking on implementation of the Media tracking for video. Here’s a sample html page that works with tracking of Media and … Continue reading

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Javascript / HTML 5 based Flash Player in Development

Interesting site showcasing a javascript based Flash Player — http://smokescreen.us. The limitations are many but this will be great for getting ad banners out there onto iPhone type devices like the iPad, iPod and iPhones. Limitations are: No script execution … Continue reading

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Embedding Fonts part 3

I ran through this one more time today to get this ironed out once and for all. Seems folks are still having issues identifying fonts and targeting them for use in sub movies from externally loaded libraries. I’ve attached a … Continue reading

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Recent Projects

Been busy the last few months, and haven’t really posted too mucho about what is new and exciting. Here’s a few links to enjoy: http://www.fordvehicles.com/transitconnect/  (Bill Shippy helped me when the going got tough. Creatively not inspirational but the architecture … Continue reading

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Dell XPS m1530

I’ve got to write about my new laptop! It’s a Dell XPS m1530 and I’m pretty impressed with how it performs. I got a system outfitted with most of what I thought is cool for Vista based laptops these days … Continue reading

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Garbage collection in AS3/Flex

Matthew Tretter (of StateManager fame) has a great post on garbage collection and Tween, URLLoader, Timer and Loader classes in AS3. He’s provided replacement classes that solve the issues and this will be something you hit at some point.

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Serendipity

It’s nice to see ideas validated through concurrent creative endevours — as shown by Airgid’s new site (www.airgid.com) and Adobe’s new Flash On (http://www.adobe.com/flashon/).

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Fun with Winsock (Windows == work of the Devil)

I spend a few hours last night trying to fix my PC and thought I’d mention how it got fixed.  Turns out either getting spyware or removing spyware or even removing spyware shield programs can screw up your winsock chain.

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TIDY up XML source

SCITE includes TIDY for cleaning up HTML/XML documents (rewrapping lines, cleaning up spacing, etc). If you’ve never used Scintilla based products before (and you have if you’ve used SEPY, FlashDevelop, Scite|Flash) it’s a great text editing library that is wrapped … Continue reading

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