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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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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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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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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I keep receiving promotions from Google AdWords to “Get Started. The vouchers were ranging from €50 towards €60. All because I’m using tools like Google webmaster tools, Google Local business Center, etc.

“Attract more visitors to your website with a free advertising credit worth € 50,00″.

So logically I was very curious to try it out for the first time. Without forgetting that nothing is really for free. Once you’ve completed all the necessary steps, you’ll see (probably not) 3 small lines of text in the end. Which, as always, are important to read. More …

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Go to the Linkedin developer site, login with your Linkedin account and apply for an application key. I will implement it in my next showcase release at at www.rive.be. It’s not a Flash API or swc just yet, but I’m hoping to see one like that sooner or later.

Now it’s like using Google App Engine authentication. your first have to go to their OAuth Authentication page, only after a successful login you get redirected to one of your own web application pages. So the whole site experience get’s broken. Just like Facebook, and so many other API’s do.

We’ll see enough examples showing up “how to get the first flash apps working with Linkedin data”.

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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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I’m requesting to close my account for over a year. Never got any answer. Contact form has time-outs, bad requests, incredible lagging, etc. Looks like 6 years earlier, they had the same issues. How can a platform like that, not have a decent “close your account” functionality? Horrible, horrible user experience. Receiving feedback after you’ve filled and submitted their contact form is a miracle by itself already.

I finally got an answer More …

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2 videos you need to see. The first one is by Manager TV recently they paid us a visit. This is wat we do at Nascom and plan to keep doing even better for More …

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