Author Archive for Jolyon



Flash on the Beach

Well I know what I’m doing first thing Monday morning, writing up a business case for my current employer to pay for me to go to Flash on the Beach.

And if that fails, hell, I’ll fork out the super-early-bird price myself, what’s ¬£199 between me and the bank?

Yet another reason why I love Flash so much.

I know it’s very brochure-ware, but I like it.
Redwood Creek
Found on Aaron Clinger’s portfolio site through Stumble Upon

FJAX isn’t alone in using Flash to make AJAX better

After finding out about FJAX last week I was pleasantly surprised to see that the cousins McDonald over at FJAX aren’t alone in utilising Flash to make AJAX better.
Aral Balkan has gone and started an OS Flash project called FlashAid,
FlashAid allows JavaScript to check if accessibility features exist on the user’s computer by using a [...]

I was hoping to keep this a Web 2.0 free blog…

But I just can’t let this one go by without commenting.
FJAX is like AJAX only instead of using XMLHttpRequest, which is limited to a single parse of date at a time, you embed a 4k swf to handle the data parsing. Admitedly I can understand why you would want to do this, only being able [...]

A live re-inactement of Super Mario Bros.

That’s right, you read it correctly, live re-inactement of Super Mario Bros

To busy to post a full length report…

but last nights inaugral London Flash Platform User Group meeting rocked!
Nice one Tink.
And it’s got the best acronym FLPLUG

There is some seriously weird stuff online…

I was innocently looking for an image of a motorway hard shoulder on google images today and found this rather unusual site
I’m not the most claustrafobic person in the world but, the idea of exploring drains fills me with dread. Maybe it’s a fear of being pumped into a sewerage plant and being devoured alive [...]

The interviews they keep a coming

So I’m up to three and I have a fourth tomorrow.
It’s all very exciting, I’m realising that if I’d tried this a year ago I wouldn’t be getting the interviews that I am now.
Fridays interview was interesting, a 3 year old start up, lots of content heavy site design, I’d be given free reign to [...]

Why HTML sucks, or why Flash makes for better experiences

Zeh a Brazilian Flash guy, has posted a very interesting article.
He’s currently researching for an interface design bachelor degree paper. In his search for some kind of holy grail, a paper that backs up every Flash designers argument that animation is a key factor in making better user experiences he found it.
One of the interesting [...]

Someone always has to take it that little bit too far…

It’s the old Diet-Coke and Mentos experiement, but on a much larger scale.
11 meg download but it’s worth the wait.




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