I had some setbacks and strugles along the way, thought it might save you some time (and wasted ‘Likes’ too) to write few tips down. It will not be a full tutorial, instead I will focus on some oddities on the Facebook side:

First tip will be: Do not implement until you REALLY understand what your options are and what exactly you want to do. Facebook offers two main options for adding a ‘Like’ button to your page/site/blog, one is IFRAME, second is XFBML. The iframe option is as simple as adding a line in your html source, and will get you going in seconds. The xfbml is based on their Javascript SDK, and sports the Facebook ‘insight’ statistics via open graph, but requires few preliminary steps which are kinda tricky as the documentation is fairly sparse. Obviously we would prefer the xfbml option.

In order to use xfbml you will need an AppID, which require you to set up an application, to do that you will have to add the Developer application to your Facebook Profile.

Then, you have to activate you developer account – you have to give you cell number, after which you will receive a code via sms to submit.

Then you can create an application in Facebook here.
* This page has a strange behavior, you will define your application name, pass a captcha and receive an Error page:
“Sorry, an error has occurred.
We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”

But if you look at the column on the right in the developers page, you will see that the application was actually created:
(Facebook, are you serious about that? is this some kind of a test?) I ended up creating about 10 applications, read countless forums threads until I found it by mistake!

After that you can start implementing, follow the instruction here which are pretty simple.

Since I thought Facebook application creation service is down, I started with the iframe version, obviously a mistake as all the ‘Likes’ I got were dumped once I connected the xfbml. damn.

Good luck and may the force be with you..

So here it is:

What you need to do in order to use it is add two functions:


import LoadAnim;
...
private var myAnim :LoadAnim;
...

public function hideAnim():void
{
myAnim.stopAnim();
removeChildAt(1);
}

Download the class here, enjoy : )

So I decided to take the challenge and make a code only (no library assets), lightweight video player, with elegant UI that works as you would expect it to, with keyboard control (starting with play/pause, forward/backwards jumps, the fundamentals, the musts). also fullscreen mode and moving between the screen modes by double clicking a la VLC (which is my favorite video player on the Mac), and of-course buffering.

At the moment the features are:
• Keyboard control: play/pause (space bar); jump backwards/forward (left/right);
• Volume control affecting the volume while pressing and moving cursor;
• Fullscreen-normal by double-clicking the video or dedicated button;
• Single click on the video toggles play/pause;
• Display of position and total duration;
• Clickable progress bar, a click will jump video to position.
• Control bar will hide when mouse leaves stage.
• File size is 20.8k (!!)

Credits:
The architecture was inspired by Mr.doob’s player, but I replaced his video controller with the excellent FLVPlayer by Martin Legris, and added my own touch and flavor

Suggestions are more than welcome, tell me what you think!

Update: I was working on improving the player behavior across platforms and browsers, discovering that events behavior is different on IE from the ret of the browsers. Surprising ha? MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT added to the stage is not firing on IE, you have to add Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, it still works for the rest of the browsers. This actually solved several oddities on IE, people are still using it? really?!

Update 2: I added spinning loading animation when video is buffering, and moved the duration text to be next to the position text, I guess it is easier for the eye this way.

The windows are movable by dragging the header area, and scalable a-la-Mac with a small handle in the bottom right corner. did I mention I hate this behavior in Macs already? will change it here! watch me Steve.

I decided to simplify things and put it together without pyrotechnics and artistic choreographies, I hope I will have the time to finish all those fancy plans I had.
It’s a chronological view of projects I did along the years, with an option to filter them by categories – flash, gui, graphics etc. The small scroll bar on the right controls the size of the thumbnails. clicking each thumb will change the interface to show more images and details.

Another update: I have started working in an exciting company as Head of Product (will disclose more details soon), managing all aspects of a very interesting web site. The new job is taking most of my time.. so I am not giving services or taking on new clients until further notice, sorry guys : )

The background is made of two movieClips, each has it’s own behavior, if you click the horn you can adjust its size and direction, if you click the text area you can scale the textField and the balloon background along with it.

This trick can be really handy if you’re making animations of moving silhouettes. In this flash I used GreenSock’s TransformManager to make the textField and horn controlable.

Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe’s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together

Adobe AIR is cross platform desktop runtime that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies, it has no real equivalent in the Microsoft world.

Peter Elst also finds it important to differentiate..

So many people ask me – “How is Silverlight?” or “Is Silverlight a real threat to Flash?”.. well, I never even tried Silverlight. (I did install the plugin, but simply never got to a website that uses Silverlight..)
So the only answer I can give is: when aiming at the web industry (us developers), such a difference in user/client perception must result in different adoption trends, evident: I did not try.. but the logo looks kinda cool.