General Goodbye Static FBML, Hello iFrame - An Overview of Custom Tabs for Facebook Pages Facebook has recently upgraded Pages with a raft of new features that are aimed at helping Page owners communicate more effectively. Amongst the new features are better ways to keep up with activity on a Page, new ways for Pages to share content, new ways for users to filter a
General Facebook Announces More Ways to Publish to Users Who Click Like Buttons Millions of websites and social games have implemented Facebook’s Like button social plugin, yet relatively few are taking advantage of the capability to publish news feed stories to users that click those buttons. In an effort to increase awareness of this option, Facebook posted to the Developers Blog explaining
General Design Utilities - Wireframing Template A key step in my design process is getting ideas down on paper. It doesn't really matter where this happens, either in my lovely notebook or on sheets of A4, the key is to rapidly get ideas sketched out using good old pencil and paper. One recent addition to my
General A better way of making contact As part of an upcoming pitch I have been working away from my computer to remove internet distractions and open myself up to more creative thinking. So, armed with a trusty pencil and a lovely Moleskine Cahier gridded notebook I’ve been perched in the front atrium of the
General Think Vitamin » 20 Steps to Better Wireframing 17) It’s Not Just the Public Site Many sites have an administration area for managing content, viewing registered user profiles, resetting passwords etc. This may not be viewed by many people but it is still important. Sometimes it can contain data that is not publicly available (such as a
General Particle Swarm Experiment 3 The little experiment now has multiple modes and a little system for sequencing them. I think this might be as far as I take this for now, but may end up coming back to it to add some new bits and pieces. Particle Swarm 3 The code is pretty straightforward
General Particle Swarm Experiment part 2 <p>I'm starting to pull the particles experiment into some form of shape now so it's possible to visualise the underlying shape a bit better. I've also tightened up the colour scheme a little bit rather than just using random values.</p> Main.swf Download this
General A happy accident <p>Whilst playing with extending the HYPE framework I stumbled across this happy accident. It's not really what I'd intended the piece to do, but I think it looks really cool anyway.<!--more--></p> Main.swf Download this file I'm using the ObjectPool along
General 40 000 Particles with a Perlin Flow Field using Actionscript <p>Sounds really exciting doesn't it but what you see below you is the result of little experiment to see how many particles my computer could handle at a decent frame-rate. I got up to 75 000 before it started to chug but for the sake of demonstration
General How I made the artwork for Supatronix using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE Framework Supatronix celebrated 7 years of broken beats and bass this year and for their birthday artwork they wanted something a little bit special. The brief was for a pixelated number 7 and with my recent interest in generative art I thought it was the perfect chance to get my hands
General Big swooping circle things!! <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> After playing some more with a particle engine I'd written, I started to wonder what would happen if I drew using the particles as anchor points. This is the result, a massive abstract mess!! Getting closer in to
General Some special artwork produced using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE framework <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> Above is some artwork that I've been creating using Flash, AS3 and the HYPE Framework (www.hypeframework.com). It's a one-off piece and it's the first print I will have ever had professionally printed. Fingers crossed that it comes out looking
General Should digital designers learn to love coding? My job title at Coolpink is 'Web Designer' and though my role has developed over time to incorporate Flash design and development, it was initially a bit different to what I'd come to expect as a web designer - I didn't have to code any HTML or CSS! This came
General What does Apple Vs. Adobe mean for new professional Flash designers and developers? The iPhone started it, the iPad carried it on and now it seems that the revised T's & C's from Apple have really fired the whole Apple vs. Adobe argument. From the outset I'm going to put my cards on the table, I love Apple products - I have an
General FITC Amsterdam Diary - Day 2 <p>It's taken far too long to get this post up, so many apologies but I hope something of interest comes from it anyway!</p> An unusual start... Day 2 started with a really odd, but cool, surprise - I won an FITC custom bike!! There
General FITC Amsterdam Diary - Day 1 <p>FITC got started properly today and judging by the crush to get into the Keynote by Richard Galvan and Mark Anders it was going to be a busy day!</p> The Adobe guys walked us through the new features in Flash Player 10.1 and
General FITC Amsterdam Diary - Workshop Day <p>Today was day zero of the FITC Amsterdam conference with three workshops being held in the Felix Meritis centre, a gorgeous building inside and out, with some really unusual features. Our workshop was on the first floor and the room had a large ceiling with huge pillars
General Playing with graphics: making pretty patterns from sound with Actionscript 3 <p>Bit of a big one to download but worth the wait - using code to produce interesting graphics based on data from a song.<!--more--></p> EmbeddedSound.swf Download this file Song used is Calvertron - Doggy Style (Zodiac Cartel Mix)
General Performance test with AS3 and thousands of particles <p>I've never experimented with using bitmapData and the copyPixels() method to increase performance when animating a large number of particles so I thought I'd have a quick play to see what could be achieved. <p /> This demo has 2000 particles that bounce off the walls,
General Starting to play around with generative art using Actionscript 3.0 <p>Up until recently I've not had much of a chance to play with generative art, though it's something that I've meaning meaning to check out for ages. I've looked into Processing and had a little play with NodeBox before, but have never really used Flash
General How to reuse actionscript code when working with Flash CS4 - a quick AS3 tutorial Just a quick one this, hopefully showcasing how to use classes with MovieClips in Flash CS4. I'll cover two basic methods, one ties different MovieClips to a base class and the other re-uses a button class. Making a reusable button To keep it quick and easy this will be a
General Actionscript 3 Display List Tutorial Part 1: Getting To Grips With The Basics <p>I've been meaning to write a little introduction to the Display List for quite some time so hopefully this post will provide some very useful tips and tricks for people that are just delving into working with AS3. It's not an advanced tutorial but hopefully
General 'Tache me up one time! <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> For our christmas party at Coolpink we were heading out to the Casino so Leigh and myself thought the only way to achieve true gentleman status was to sport a moustache. I think this post serves more as an acute reminder
