Did you ever want to let your PDF files track themselves on their own? Without using the download link from your site?
Well, it’s very easy todo when you use Flash with the Google Analytics AS3 API. We will embed an invisible Flash object into your PDF. So the flash object will More …
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:
So I went looking More …
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):
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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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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.
I made this +/-1 year ago, haven’t touched it since. Imagine that! Now why did I decide to throw this online? It’s barely finished and it contains tons of bugs? The reason is my homepage didn’t change in the past 3 years. Better something in stead of nothing.
(+181 AS3 classes, JiglibFlash 3d physics, papervision3d, google analytics, amfphp, puremvc, design, localisation, swfaddress, etc.)
Everything started with a another great new idea for my web showcase. “An interactive 3d boardgame which takes you trough my professional career.”
But, as always, during the development process, I kept pushing in more and more new features/technologies/design changes… pushing the deployment date further and further, until it fell off the face of the earth.
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As I was reading the article about Flash Player 10.1 hardware acceleration for video and graphics, this is what I marked as important to myself, when developing for Flash player 10.1.
So in general I quote:
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Rien Verbrugghe is a Senior Flash Platform Developer/Consultant at Nascom.
Daily development with Adobe® Flash, Flex & AIR technologies, non-stop gathering of knowledge about mobile, web & desktop applications.
