This is so easy. I made a succesful AMFPHP multi file upload wich I’m using in my new release of the Rive.be CMS (clear your browser cache), by using this as a base. You can read all about it at Gertons’s blog (single file upload) and the Flex{er} blog (his multi file example didn’t work). So in the end if you throw these 2 examples together (merge them somehow) you should end up with a working solution.

Basically you have enough with these 2 snippets to upload any file you wish to a AMFPHP backend. More …

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It’s so easy now! See it as a simple HTML webpage with some Javascript, CSS and an embedded Flash object. Creating widgets or applications for Nokia S60 5th edition is not that hard to do. You could use the Nokia WRT Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver or just plain old Notepad. How to package Flash content in a Widget where you zip the whole package and rename it *.wgz …et voila. More …

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Campaigning for your blog, everyone is doing it in a way. Posting your links on Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc. But how about really tracking them specifically?

It’s turned on by default in your Google Analytics account. So why leave those table/results empty? Only thing you should do is add some extra variables to your URL’s.

See Feedburner for example: More …

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It came a bit as a shock to me, because at first, when I was checking out my own www.rive.be in Explorer 8… I thought I did something wrong in my HTML/Javascript  code. But it seems to be an issue with IE 8 on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows Vista 64bit as far as I can tell.

Using the SWFObject 2.2 Test Suite:

1. SWFObject 2.2 dynamic embed method (defect in IE8 on Win XP)
2. SWFObject 2.2 static embed method (works)

So I went looking More …

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Playing arround with AS3Dmod for is fun! I’ve used the “Twist” and “Bend” modifiers for the Rive.be Productbox. For the Twist I had to move the centerpoint to the bottom of the box. By using a Vector3D with an y property, half the value of the height of the productbox.

Now there’s at least some movement on the site while creating the rest of www.rive.be.

I’ve tried using the “Tape” modifier too but I couldn’t get it to expand only the middle of the box. It always seemed to start from the top. Maybe someone knows how to get this done? using the ’setFalloff(0, 1)’ function with all kinds of numbers didn’t seem to do what I want.

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After I implemented the Flash Platform Ditribution Service into my Flex 4 web application at the Rive.be CMS Share Page. I decided to try it on to a pure Actionscript 3 project. Visit http://www.rive.be and click the Share button in the bottom right side of your screen.

Everything works out just great (try it out):

• Post an embedded preview into Facebook, Live Spaces, iGoogle, etc.
• Share a link in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
• Email the link to any of your More …

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In my previous post you saw how to “share” your flash applications into several platforms by using the Flash Platform Distribution Service. But one of those was Facebook.

Now there’s a different way too. You can really “embed” your application within it’s own page. A Facebook Application such as the Rive.be Widget (and click “Add to my Page”). In real, it is just a PHP file (containg HTML with Flash) embedded within an iFrame into Facebook. The application itself is still loaded from your own hosting.

Now you can pass trough the persons firstname, More …

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At Nascom we had to make some “hard” but fun choices in our flashteam. “Which conferences would you like to visit in 2010.” Well, for starters I decided to skip Flash On The Beach this year, and go for FITC Amsterdam 2010.  So we have received our tickets, and our personal profile page.

By the way: Soon all our Google search results will be spammed with utterly useless personal profile pages like this. Why do organizers keep thinking they can recreate the next and better community website again and again? Terrible. Stop trying please.

As for the other upcoming events we’re having on the Nascom radar for now: The Farata Master Class on Adobe Flex (topics) and upcoming Adobe usergroup events in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Let’s hope we see much, much more events in 2010.

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This is something I was searching for a very long time! (No, it’s not a html->pdf converter like dompdf or an expensive java solution like LiveCycle PDF Generator)

LiveDocx is the name of this great free web service! Get started here. It’s smooth, fast and very easy to use.

It allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases. It is typically used to create professional, print-ready word processing documents in DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF. It’s easy and well proven.

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Google doesn’t index any deeplink url passed the “Hash mark” (#) or “pound sign”. This was something completely new to me. “A common misconception with a lot of Flash developers using technologies such as SWFAddress for deeplinking.”

Links like:

http://www.rive.be/cms/#/Work%20Software
http://www.rive.be/cms/#/Work%20Language
http://www.rive.be/cms/#/Work%20API

…will not get indexed by Google? Whaat? I found out about this, when watching these Adobe Flash and search engine optimization (SEO) videos at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/seo/articles/flash_seo_videos.html. They’ll go deeper into it (from a  developers perspective) in the near future.

Check out the source code of http://www.rive.be or http://www.rive.be/cms/ and you’ll see I was already practising some of these SEO features.

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