Archive for September, 2007

Caculating Dates in AS3

Sep. 27, 2007 No Comments Posted under: AIR, ActionScript, Flex

At work this morning I got one of those, “can you just”. But it wasn’t asking for me to knock up copy of YouTube or MySpace by the end of the week as a favour, but rather for a simple way or reccording the number of people that interact with and click on an advert [...]

I had some more ideas about what to do with my flex flickr widget the other day. Inspired by Dunstan’s old blog that he never updates, I though I should get the widget to update related to my situation.

For the first incarnation (and I have many more ideas of how to do this) it will [...]

Be Value

Sep. 10, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Technology

Be (everyone’s favourite 24MB broadband provider), have just lanuched Be Value to replace their Be Lite service.

Be Value is limited to 8MB speed but still with the unlimited (fair usage) bandwidth. Seeing as I only got about 7.2MB out of the 24MB line, it seemed silly not to switch!

This is what their mail shot had [...]

d.Construct 2007

Sep. 9, 2007 2 Comments Posted under: Random

This weekend I had the pleasure of popping down to Brighton (which I realised I miss from my University days immensely) to attend d.Construct 2007 put on by the clever chaps at clear:left.

The day kicked of with a great talk by Jared Spool, who was a great speaker, full of energy (great for first thing [...]