Author Archives: Lex

Auto Pan Class For Panning An Image On Mouse Movement

By Lex | Published: August 8, 2009
This movie requires Flash Player 10 swfobject.embedSWF("/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/AutoPan1.swf", "swf0c391", "540", "540", "10.0.0", "", {}, {wmode: "window", menu: "false", quality: "high", bgcolor: "#000000"}, {}); I created an AS2 version of this years ago, and shared it on kirupa.com. It was a very popular small class. So, I’ve rebuilt the class in AS3. I hope some people find it useful. [...]
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Listening To Web Traffic

By Lex | Published: August 4, 2009
Traffic, in the traditional sense, is annoying. I live on a somewhat busy street, outside my office window it is the same monotonous motoring sound all day. This annoyance gave me an idea: I’m playing with my new interest in the Google Analytics export data API and trying to get Flash to respond to the [...]
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A Positive Spin On Sparse Web Traffic

By Lex | Published: July 27, 2009
Bear with me on this…. I came across this CNN article discussing how much CO2 is emitted when browsing the Web. Their study places CO2 generation at 20 milligrams per second spent on the Web. This had me interested is how much CO2 I indirectly generate based on site visitors and how much time they [...]
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Adding Graphics Within A Predefined Unique Boundary

By Lex | Published: July 25, 2009
I came across a forum post of someone attempting to add graphics within, and only within a uniquely shaped boundary. There are numerous ways to achieve this visual effect in flash. One, you could add items to a shape and use a blending mode to allow only those shapes that appear over the parent object [...]
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A Few Things I Follow – for now

By Lex | Published: July 25, 2009
ON PROCESS A NO has more value than a YES. Stacey Mulcahy Project Manager Math: 8 weeks, 1 developer = 2 weeks, 4 developers. Stacey Mulcahy Iterative graphic design can lead to duct tape development. Stacey Mulcahy Developers deadlines get shafted when anyone else blows theirs. Stacey Mulcahy
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It was time…

By Lex | Published: July 25, 2009
I’ve started a blog. I’ll keep this blog if I successfully post to it once a week. If I can’t manage that type of sustained blog-commitment, this directory and database will end up on a backup hard drive in the closet.
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