Almost all websites use some sort of Traffic Analytics, Google Analytics is used by 54.7% of all websites, according to w3techs.Using an external analytics service to collect and parse website’s visitors data is the simplest and fastest way, however, it comes with a price since the...
Creating a Gallery page in a minute and a half – Bablab
Bablab is a centralized platform for Photographers and Artists to manage their online presence.
Create a slick portfolio website – see how!
bablab.com A new service for professional photographers, create your own portfolio website, super slick and elegant. Another super cool feature are the private client galleries, upload low-res photos, send your client a secured link to proof, select or share with their friends and family. Take...
Flash MouseWheel event on ALL browsers
Cut a long story short – took me a long time to find a solution to support Flash MouseWheel on all browsers, Windows AND Mac. You can see this live here: http://www.pairhaps.com This solution is a combination of two technics, and as of today (March...
Injecting and calling JS functions from within flash using external
I recently encountered a unique requirement in one of my projects, triggering the loading of a page in the background (outside of flash, using Ajax) from within flash. Often you cannot rely on JS functions to be available, you could load public libraries (Jquery or...
Random number without repeat as3
We’re using the random object for many things, by its nature it may repeat a number, but sometimes we don’t want to get the same number more than once, for example when showing a random image out of an array of images, or jumping to...
The iTunes clutter and users perception
Sometimes companies let technical considerations affect their product strategy in a bad way, allowing “practical” point of view override the “user” point of view. Startups often say “our technology does X, this can be interpreted into several actions, let’s wrap them together to make a...
The dark side of the moon
Started working on a new & interesting project for Microsoft’s Innovation Lab, can’t disclose any details, but I can say it’s pretty exciting. So now I can play with all the coolest gadgets scattered around the lab, drink as much coke as I want, and...
Mysterious voodoo phenomenon with eclipse line numbers
Working with a second monitor in Flashbuilder4 on MacOS 10.6 Snow Leopard, I noticed that the line numbers weren’t scrolling along with the page, after a quick googling I found it is a known bug (here) and that there is a patch (here) that fixes...
Html5, Flash and Beer bottles
Have you seen the cool things Google are doing with Html5 recently? Okay, I am not trying to defend Flash in any way, but Html5 development will soon hit the same bottle-necks the Flash player did, as it uses the browser’s Javascript engine. Evidence: check...