I’ve just got back from an incredibly long session of the new version of Minesweeper. That was a cruel and patronising game. When it said ‘deceptively simple’ in the description, I had no idea how (concerning) long it would take to complete it. Damn. Microsoft beat me again.
This is quite a convenient example of how Microsoft has managed to give the whole OS a complete overhaul. Still got a bit more to prove to me, but the gap between OS X and Windows is closing rapidly, especially with the …
Recently in the town I live, something interesting has finally happened. A huge boat, called “Ice Prince” sank off the Dorset coast (25 miles from Portland Bill). It has taken several days for the sea to slowly carry all 5,000 tons of wood to the Worthing coastline. Police have warned that anybody taking timber from the beach risks a fine of up to £2500, so don’t do it!
Here are some photos so I can show you what I mean.
As you can see, there is a lot of wood.. They reckon …
There are a considerable number of options to complete this, and I’m sure that I’ll cover them some other time. However, in the mean time, I’ll show you the easiest way. The topics you should learn from this tutorial are probably as follows:
PHP Basics
PHP Simple concatenation
PHP Variables and super-globals
Passing data to flash
If you’re interested in passing variables straight through Flash, you can use loaderInfo.loaderURL; - for more information see Bruce’s comment. It’s worth noting that this works with AS3/CS3 only.
This involves PHP, so please check and be sure that your …
I have seen huge amounts of traffic and emails to me based around Apple advert music, so I thought I’d better nip this one in the bud.
The author is Yael Naim, a pretty extraordinary singer, in multiple languages. Following is the youtube video I found while searching it for myself. I need to go out more.
The song is ‘New Soul’, and I’d recommend you check out others of her English-based songs from the album (other languages are cool, but the English ones flow better to me).
Here’s the iTunes store URL.
This is a quickie to announce the start of the new look of GridFusions Interactive. It has been built in AJAX and in the test, it vaguely strongly resembles the Kubrick for Wordpress theme, I admit, although that was not on purpose. Any questions about the PHP source, or how it’s back compatible since before CSS, just post a comment and I’ll try to catch up with you as soon as possible.
If you are reading this when I’ve just written this, you can get to it at www.gridfusions.com/2008, otherwise, you …