AS3: Dealing with multi-language data in your application

posted in ActionScript on 2011-06-16   language storage key class text key string static storage addvalue http www site trace storage getvalue

I'm a big fen of the MVC pattern. I like the idea to store my data in one place and be able to get it fast. In most of my projects I used a class called Storage for similar purpose. It supports a multi-language data saving, so I decided to share it with you.

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GoogleMaps JS API: address to coordinates transformation

posted in JavaScript on 2011-06-01   map google maps function address locations var results location google maps latlng step

When we are talking about maps, Google is an absolute leader. Their GoogleMaps tool is free, well documented and works really good. What I didn't find directly in the documentation is how to get the exact location based on plain text. I.e. to convert an address to google.maps.LatLng object. That's why I wrote a simple function that did this job.

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\"This page contains both secure and non secure items\" message

posted in PHP on 2011-05-26   content problem http page featureloader js php https protocol

When you are opening a site via https protocol and there are items loaded with absolute addresses started with http some browsers, like IE, throw a message This page contains both secure and non-secure items. It is really annoying and if the user decides to can prevent these items of showing and he can brake the whole layout or some functionality.

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5 useful ActionScript 3 tips

posted in ActionScript on 2011-05-24   movie color function date movie getchildat month number return tips

Sometimes, when you work on some project, you find something that is small, but very interesting and useful. Usually I'm adding such kind of things in classes that I like to call helpers. The following tips are part of my helpers.

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Another IE surprise

posted in JavaScript on 2011-05-19   createstylesheet problem createstylesheet k found usage

We all know that the usage of InternetExplorer brings a lot of problems for us (the developers). Did you know that there is a JavaScript method createStyleSheet that you can call only 31 times.

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A few things you don\'t know about JavaScript

posted in JavaScript on 2011-05-18   javascript expert javascript programmers mistakes subtle bugs common mistakes subtle avoid common mistakes javascript programming language javascript garden check called javascript garden javascript called javascript bad practices

A couple of days ago, I found very useful page about JavaScript called "JavaScript Garden". Check out here.JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.

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F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance

posted in Inspiration on 2011-05-17   film festival inductance play film festival
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TIJI

posted in Inspiration on 2011-05-07  

A black and white forest is colored in vibrant hues under our eyes except for one sad little panda, which sets off the compassion of an imaginative little boy.

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AS3: dynamic text field to curve (TextField on an arcing path)

posted in ActionScript on 2011-05-04   text var curvedtext textformat number radius tf direction endangle startangle

[2]Most of the articles here are tightly connected to my daily work. As you probably know from one of my latest posts (runtime font loading/embedding) I worked a lot with texts these days. There was a request for producing curved text from a dynamic field. Of course it wasn't so easy to create such a feature. I wrote a simple class that did the job and I decided to share it.

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How We\'ll Layout Websites in 2016

posted in Inspiration on 2011-04-30   ll layout websites

Peter (@stopsatgreen) delivered a lightning talk for us on the various CSS3 layout methods being developed by the W3C and his opinion on their potential future.

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