Archive for 'ActionScript'

PolarClock

Oct. 5, 2007 No Comments Posted under: ActionScript, Flex

I came across PolarClock today, a great flash clock that kind of rotates depending on the time. What was really interesting is that the developer has turned it into a screen saver using ScreenTime. When you change the settings on OS X you can see the flex app loading. Will have to try it out, [...]

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 [...]

I have wanted to have a little project for a while now. Something to add to this blog that would help me learn something new and suffice my need to code. So I decided to create a really simple Flickr widget in Flex (frame work over kill I know). Previously in flex I have used [...]