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Say Hello To The Avatar Interactive Trailer

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

A while back I took part in a project with The PPC to build a ‘different’ microsite for the (then) new film Avatar. I don’t know what happened to this project, I spent a good while optimising and refactoring to get it running really smoothly but then I got paid and I didn’t hear anything else. It seems that it may not have gone out in time, which is a really shame cos it’s awesome! Anyway, have a look, tell me what you think.

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My Latest Tutorial: Creating a YouTube Search and Play Gadget with PureMVC

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I’ve had another of my tutorials published on the Flashtuts+ network: Creating a YouTube Search and Play Gadget with PureMVC. It’s a simple step by step guide on how to build a little gadget and teaches you three main things:

  1. Using PureMVC
  2. Using the YouTube Player API in AS3
  3. Working with GData

Check it out and tell me what you think!

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Accessing The Stage Through PureMVC

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I got a tweet earlier today by @ninjaparade asking me for “any advice how to add an EventListener to the stage from a component in PMVC”, and suggested I wrote a blog post, so I’m doing just that.

If you don’t already know, PureMVC is a great framework for rapid building and maintaing of Actionscript 3 projects of any size, if you haven’t had a look at it yet, I suggest you read my tutorial on Flashtuts+.
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Speeding Up PureMVC Development, Part 2.1: The Mediator (2)

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

I recently wrote a post about speeding up development with PureMVC’s mediator. Now I’ve created a super mediator class that will defiantly help you speed up your code.

I mentioned before that I really didn’t like the idea of having to use “listNotificationInterests()” and then “handleNotification()” as these functions lead to unnecessary duplication of code and, if you’re like me, most of the time you use the “switch()” within “handleNotification()” to execute functions rather than writing a load code.
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Speeding Up PureMVC Development, Part 2: The Mediator

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Update: I’ve updated the mediator class now, here’s the post: Speeding Up PureMVC Development, Part 2.1: The Mediator (2)

Following my post about speeding up PureMVC development regarding the view, I’m now moving on to part two of my series on PureMVC: The Mediator.

It’s handy if you understand and/or have used PureMVC before, if not, have a read of my tutorial on using and understanding PureMVC.
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Speeding Up PureMVC Development, Part 1: The View

Monday, June 29th, 2009

After my tutorial on using and understanding PureMVC, I got around to write some classes that extended some of the core classes of PureMVC.

The main thing that got to me was the repetition of functions such as functions that send events from a view to the mediator and so on. I think it’s just much better if you can get away with creating a nice set of classes that extend the core and allow you to code that much better, so here they are:
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More tutorials

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write a quick tutorial on how to create a simple carousel style gadget. I’ve been putting this off for a while as I haven’t had time, but I thought that I may as well just get on with it and knock one out! Also, lots of people have been searching for code on my site regarding the creation of YouTube gadgets, especially the ‘coverflow’ style one.

At the moment, I’ve got a deal going with the authors of Flashtuts+ whereby I write articles and tutorials for them. It’s good as it gets more coverage than just putting them here and it means that I get lots of exposure too.

I’ve currently had two published, Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework and Using the YouTube Player API with ActionScript 3.0 and a third one should be published soon on creating a simple YouTube Search and Play gadget.

When it comes to expanding on the tutorials, errata and updates, I’ll always publish them here. I’ll also be putting up snippets of code and just little tips here and there.

And of course, any code that I do that’s useful but it’s big enough for a tutorial, I’ll stick it up on here!

So bare with me, there’ll be lots of content coming up very very shortly!

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My First Tutorial

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Like I mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve started writing tutorials for Flashtuts+ so I can raise my profile as a skilled freelancer. My first tutorial has been published on Flashtuts+ and is ready for all to see, check it out: Understanding the PureMVC Open Source Framework

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