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This example shows an image moving to the mouse position inside a canvas tag compared to Flash. The HTML5 version uses the EaselJS javascript library and comes from gotoAndLearn() and Activetuts+ tutorials. Both versions are set at 60fps. View a … Continue reading →

Using the CSS3 background size property to fill the background with an image. The image is scaled so that it’s smallest width or height fills the browser. View a demo here. Links: – Image Source – -moz-background-size – -webkit-background-size

While porting over my Android photo upload demo application to the PlayBook I ran into: Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2038: File I/O Error. The issue is that you have to get permission to access the shared file system. To … Continue reading →

This is a revised version of this post which allowed a user to upload a single file. Instead a user can select multiple files to upload. On the server we need to upload the Zend Framework (minimal) and create some … Continue reading →

This example shows how to upload files in an Adobe AIR application to a server using Zend AMF and Flex. It’s based off a blog post by Leonardo França. I found getting started with Zend AMF a bit confusing, this … Continue reading →

The code below uploads a photo from a Flex mobile application to a server with PHP. When I was first searching on how to do this I came across a good tutorial on Hybrid Hacking. So I’ve basically just modified … Continue reading →

I made this quick example in Flex and AS3 to test different outcomes for the Monty Hall problem. View a demo here.

I asked this question on Quora and got a really good answer (read here). What I actually had to learn was how to get Flash communicating with PHP using serialization (compared to get/post requests and xml). There are two options … Continue reading →

Using YUI3 YQL Query Utility to display a StumbleUpon user’s recent favorites. View a demo here.

Using YUI3 Animation to change the height of a swfobject. View a demo here. Download the FLA file here. Links: – AS3 External Interface [Update - I've redone this example with jQuery here.]