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WordPress and Flash Integration

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

I have been trying to find a way to integrate Flash and WordPress for a while now, so when I update my wordpress blog then it goes straight onto my Flash site.  Well, I have found some files from Tim Wilson’s website and I have learned a lot so far from them.  You basically have to integrate Flash with the wordpress’s xml and have some php communicating between the two.  Hopefully this will be a big help in redesigning this blog.

Also, if your interested in doing this I recommend watching a video on gotoAndLearn that basically has to do with integrating mySQL, Flash, and PHP.

Cya

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Box2D Physics Engine for Flash

Friday, January 16th, 2009

I found another really cool physics engine for flash.  It’s called Box2dFlash and its a port of Erin Catto’s 2D Physics library Box2D.  Its open source, written in AS3, and its got a lot of really solid classes.  I am going to play around with this and see what I can do with it. APE which is another AS3 open source 2D physics engine  is another one that is really good too. Its written and maintained by Alec Cove. I want to compare the two and see which of them is easier to implement,  I will have some examples later.

Cya

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FLV Videos not Showing up in Browser Window

Monday, January 12th, 2009

While working with some .flv videos today, I came across a problem that I had not seen before.  The .flv files, after I uploaded them, were not showing up on the page that I had created. The swf was present and it seemed as though it was looking for the video file, and I knew it was up on the server.  So I talked to Pawel, the IT guy, and we found out the problem.  When serving .flv files off of a Windows Server 2003 (or other types of servers I’m sure), it requires setting up the MIME type on the server first because it isn’t one of the native or initial MIME types on the server.  So here is the work around:

1) Select the site to configure in IIS, right click and select “Properties”
2) Under HTTP Headers Tab, select “File Types” under the MIME Map section and select “New Type”
3) Type “.flv” as the associated extension and “video/x-flv” as the content type.
4) Select “OK” and you’re good!

Cya

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Flasher Magazine

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Lee Brimelow, a Platform Evangelist at Adobe, just created a new online video magazine called Flasher Magazine.  This first issue has interviews with Chuck Freedman (from Ribbit, who is hosting the $100,000 Killer App Challenge) and Ryan Stewart. Also, Lee explains how he goes about creating the gotoandlearn videos that he is so famous for.

I wish I had a little more time in my life because then I would definitely be involved in that 100K App Challenge.  The contest wants us developers to use Ribbit’s API, which allows us to make phone calls directly in Flash, and create some type of cool voice ware application.

Cya

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WiiFlash: Using the Wiimote with Flash

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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I just read a very interesting article on theFlashBlog website about WiiFlash, which allows you to use the Wiimote with your Flash applications.  I was wondering when this was going to happen especially after seeing Johnny Lee‘s videos about using the Wiimote for a Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboard a while back.  The developers are Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert and here is the WiiFlash google code.  Oh, I also saw some really awesome stuff using WiiFlash and Papervision3d at Jeff Winder‘s blog.

I am buying my mother and father-in-law a Wii this Christmas, so I might have to borrow the Wiimote for a little while and try this stuff out.  It’s kinda pumps me up.

Cya

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