Tag Archives: AS3

Parsons Exploratory Navigation

By NickHardeman | February 23, 2010

Recently Parsons has launched a much needed improved site. I worked on a Flash application of the site which serves as an exploratory navigation for potential students to discover programs they may be interested in based on floating keywords. The design was done by Dexter Miranda and supervised by Isa Gouverneur, both part of the [...]

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BackTweets API AS3 Class

By NickHardeman | November 21, 2009

For a current project collaborator Bruce Drummond and I needed to search Twitter for urls. We attempted to parse the bit.ly truncated urls by expanding them, but that proved inefficient. Since each user truncates urls differently, we could not simply truncate the url and then search for that bit.ly. We also contacted bit.ly to determine [...]

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AMFPHP 1.9 and Actionscript 3

By NickHardeman | November 19, 2008

I recently installed amfphp 1.9 and have gotten it to work thanks to some tutorials by Lee Brimelow on some introductions to amfphp.

Introduction to AMFPHP 1
Introduction to AMFPHP 2

He also did a blog post about some security issues regarding amfphp. These were great to get me started, but I ran into a few problems when [...]

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AS3 Multi-Image and Swf Loader

By NickHardeman | September 18, 2008

If you want a very robust multiLoader in as3 then BulkLoader by Arthur Debert is a great solution. This as3 multi-loader manages the loading of multiple images and swfs and is a lighter class, and is based on the BulkLoader code.
Tracking of individual progress and of the group is easy. To view the loading again, [...]

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