The Flash books I mention below are 7, as follows: 2 O’Reilly books: Actionscript for Flash MX Second edition, and ActionsScript Cookbook. Peachpit Press: Macromedia Flash MX Advanced Flash MX Savvy (Sybex) Flash MX Actionscript Bible (Wiley) MaranGraphics/Hungry Minds “Visual” series: Flash Actionscript (just noticed it uses Flash 5 Actionscripting)
I just picked up a whole slew of Flash books, specifically on Actioncript. In taking an online Lynda.com course on Flash MX 2004, I learned much, not the least of which was how powerful Actionscripting is. The new 2004 interface promises to be a good way to learn a bunch of Actionscript, with its “Forms Based” Flash app editor, and Continue Reading
Something else I’m looking for: I want to create some of those “faded” backgrounds from images to use as backgrounds. Old Saint George is a beautiful place, and we have lots of good photos already scanned, and so we plan to use quite a bit of these for backgrounds, buttons, and lots of other enhancing graphics from these images. First Continue Reading
Flash and LoadMovie or gotoAndStop: I am trying to find out how to load a Movie into an empty clip I have already set up (and working….I can load separate swf files that represent the 7 main navigation buttons, but I want to be able to “reload” or “redisplay” the default content in that Movie Clip container when I have Continue Reading
The OSG Board meeting got moved back on the calendar a couple of weeks, so I feel a bit of breathing room on the tight development schedule, especially since I have been working through some Flash-learning exercises over on Lynda.com. I don’t plan on “sitting back” with this extra room, though, but to be thankful for the opportunity to look Continue Reading
Toshiba seems like a good test case for “Cluetrain” scrutiny; a lesson on “what NOT to do”. It is obvious to anybody who can use “Google” to look up PDA topics and “Toshiba e740” that Toshiba blew it on this one. I have one, and have been having fun with it, but I see frustration ahead in the continuing insensitivity Continue Reading
The post below is to say , “Sorry I haven’t been around here much”, but also to say that as soon as things begin going up, one of the first features to be integrated into the framework is Weblogs.
I’ve been blogging very little lately, mostly due to the fact that I’ve been spending all of my time at the desk on Website features and “Flash feature” reviews. I’ve been gathering an arsenal of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 features via a brand new addition to the online training collection at lynda.com Flash is SO right for OSG, and the Continue Reading
I installed a DVD writer about 3 weeks ago. It had its HP -rleated burning utilities. I also bought Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD (free after rebate). It has a program called Instant Write that creates a virtual drive. All of that seemed to be working fine. My Samsung CDRW was being recognized and I was able to read and write to Continue Reading
I found my fix for the ASP problem I was trying to solve yesterday. I found the answer on Google Groups . See My Web Development for details
I’ve discovered why the Toshiba e740 Pocket PC I got for a great deal last month was perhaps available in the first place: It may have been removed from the shelf of the chain that was selling it due to Toshiba’s decision not to offer an upgrade to Windows Mobile/PocketPC 2003. Owners of this mode, many of whom bought the Continue Reading
I have XP Pro, and IIS 5.1 I also have .Net Framework 1.1 running, with several apps, including DotnetNuke and DotText (weblog app) all working, as well as my Cold Fusion apps (Cold Fusion MX running as an ISAPI service), and these all work. Just the asp pages are broken. I see suprisingly little on this when doing a Google Continue Reading
What would really be neat is if Weblogs were compatible enough for two different blogs to pull from and generate a mutually used RSS file. The Radio-to-MT cross poster doesn’t quite do it for me, since any edits I make to an existing entry after posting go to the MT blog as a duplicate post (only with the changes being Continue Reading
A month ago, I was busy scurrying about, getting a scanner hooked up to do some scanning of materials for OSG, for website content. I was also looking at PocketPC’s, as I had been charged to go get one so that I could include PDA-compatibility in my Website development. We were not sure as to where the precise sources of Continue Reading
Oh, I have joined the ranks of the PocketPC owners. I just got me a Toshiba Pocket PC e740 at a nifty special deal. I just hooked it up, synced it, and now I’m off to search Google for a WiFi free spot where I can try its integrated 802.11b.