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Self Promotion: The Mating Call of the Mute Button

Posted Sat, 10/10/2009 - 12:16 by Andrew N. Price

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How To Get A 32Gb Zune For Under $130

Posted Fri, 10/09/2009 - 10:50 by Andrew N. Price

Effeciency Testing For Basic Flash Data Operations

Posted Wed, 08/19/2009 - 15:04 by Andrew N. Price

Overview:It has been a while since I have posted on here, but I wanted to make a quick update so that everyone will know that I am still alive. I apologize for my lengthy absence, I have just been really busy, and posting on here is something I do with my free time, when I have it. This post has been a long time in the making, and while it is not as thorough as I would like, it is a good first step in the right direction.

Example Of An Advanced Dynamic PHP/SQL Menu

Posted Wed, 04/08/2009 - 15:18 by Andrew N. Price

FOREWORD: This menu is not as well documented as some of my other examples, I tried to provide effective documentation, but it is sparse at points especially in some of the class files. The main reason for doing this is the shear size of final menu and it overall complexity. This is a slightly simplified version of the menu you see working above you. I removed a number a of the non essential buttons simply to make it easier for users to focus on the more important bits.

Populating A Dynamic Circular AS3 Menu With SQL Data Via PHP Without Using AMFPHP (Preconfigured To Work With Drupal 6)

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 03:19 by Andrew N. Price

Recently I had been working on an updated flash based theme for Drupal, and since I am lazy and have a great deal of disdain for hard coding I wanted the flash based menus I was building to populate dynamically as I added more content. After a bit of trial and error I eventually found a solution that works well and that provides the user with all of the important information that you would want from a menu. (I.E. Title, Date of Post/Last Change, and dynamic links from the menu itself.) Below is a simplified demo of this menu.

Updated And Optimized AS3 Perlin Clouds Demo

Posted Mon, 03/02/2009 - 02:59 by Andrew N. Price

This is my second demo/tutorial on generating clouds in AS3 via perlin noise. The first demo has proven to be one of the more popular items on my site, and although the original demo works fine its cpu demands made it extremely difficult to work with. Since I was never totally satisfied with its overall performance I decided to go back and update that project for this weeks post.

How To Create A Semi-Realistic Underwater Enviroment In Flash Using Perlin Noise & AS3

Posted Mon, 02/23/2009 - 23:42 by Andrew N. Price

Yesterday I made a post about creating a login window for Drupal using php and flash. In that demo I included a personal project I had been working on that called for creating an underwater type of effect. As it has been mine my most recent area of interest I of course decided to use flash and perlin noise to generate this effect. However since the focus of that post was more the actual login method rather than the effect in the background, tonight's post focuses on how to generate the effect I was using in the background.

Create An External Flash Login Page For Drupal (Or Any Other CMS For That Matter) With AS3 and PHP (No AMFPHP Required)

Posted Sun, 02/22/2009 - 18:29 by Andrew N. Price

So this project ended up being a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I have made a significant amount of progress on it, and now I have a product that I feel is worth showing. It is still pretty beta, but it does actually work. I was afraid that I might run into to some sort of sandbox issues (which I did), but after a half hour of prodding and prying it works. It is rather neat, I don't think I have seen anyone else with something quite like it. The flash itself is only 41Kb, and it relies on 5 php files totaling around 9kb.

Updated Demo Of AS3 Radial/Circular Mouse Tracking (I.E. Its a compass that follows your cursor)

Posted Sat, 02/07/2009 - 04:40 by Andrew N. Price

I noticed that a lot of users were downloading my AS3 compass recently, and when I had originally made that post I had intended on updating it sometime in the near future. When I noticed the recent rise in downloads I figured now was as good a time as any to do that update. I could just update my original post, but to be honest that is bad for SEO purposes, as I always want more content, so please bear with me here.

Generating Pseudo Realistic Clouds In Flash (AS3 + Perlin Noise)

Posted Wed, 02/04/2009 - 20:35 by Andrew N. Price

I have recently been working on a web development project for one of my clients, and during the design portion of that process I came up with a visual element that required somewhat realistic looking clouds to be created in Flash. I had tried doing clouds in the past (you can see my more cartoon like attempts on my business' site www.seomaco.com) but to get the kind of look the client wanted I knew I would need to go another direction.

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