So your working on a new RIA in Flash and you want to use the built in NumericStepper, or any other Flash component for that matter but you aren’t happy with the skin. You’ve already seen Customizing the NumericStepper component by Adobe and you’re ready to move past changing the color of the component and… Read More »
So as one of my sites grew I quickly found out that my zip code database was horribly incomplete with only 33234 records and it even had duplicates for some zip codes. I did some searching and came across a post about a zip code csv file but the post goes to what looks like… Read More »
On a shared hosting environment you often won’t have access to ban IP addresses on the IIS level and my shared host didn’t offer the Firewall module for Plesk so I had to come up with a programmatic way of blocking large blocks of IPs. You can setup in your web.config file something called a… Read More »
A very popular error, so popular and in so many places still unresolved. I spent a while trying to track down what was causing this error on my new hosting environment. I felt it would be a great idea to go ahead and repost my successful solution. I first did a hefty bit of searching… Read More »
This main page is practically a launch announcement site at this point. It’s been a long hard road to launching DiveIntoThePool.com and I’ve so far met all my goals I set out to when beginning development on the site. It was in a language I’ve never used, ASP.Net in C#. On a platform I didn’t… Read More »
Weddingtracker launched on June 12th around 2:30PM CST and it has been about 8 long months of development and battle to get it out the door. With over 18,000 lines of code, over 400 files and 64mb in size this has been by far my most complicated Flash project ever. You can see the 13… Read More »
I launched my new portfolio site for Barrett Sonntag Online and wanted to talk a little on the technical aspects of the new all Flash site. After doing my analysis on the World of Warcraft website (worldofwarcraftcom front and back-end analysis) I wanted to see what it would take to combine a little JavaScript, HTML… Read More »
Last Friday I was approached by my boss to look into an advertisers banners due to reports of malware notifications when browsing our site. It sounded far fetched to think that Flash was executing malicious code on the client side browsers but I cracked open the SWF files with a de-compiler to take a look.… Read More »
Of course I am an avid World of Warcraft player or I would not have run across the site for their new expansion. I had noticed before that several of the World of Warcraft sites ended in .xml and the I didn’t think to go digging until I saw the page at http://worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/dungeons/utgarde.xml. I decided… Read More »
Day One Adobe Keynote (unofficial video) Kevin Lynch, Adobe ActionScript 3 for Designers Rich Shupe, FMA On the Road with Adobe AIR Mike Chambers, Adobe The Secret to Project Management for the Creative Studio Daniel Schutzsmith, GraphicDefine Branding via Social Media for the Interactive Artist and Small Agency (will be removed 09/28/07!) Giovanni Gallucci OOP… Read More »