The latest work to finally make it live is Jupi Corporations new site:
http://www.jupicorp.com/
I did the design and development of the majority of the Flash components excluding the lovely chandelier (Mags from Cornerstone design that and I just sorted out the animation). This was a rather challenging project in regards to how certain the client was in his visual branding, it is when a degree in visual communications and 8 years working as a graphic/print design (pre-web, pre-flash) comes in handy. …

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The implementation of Asual SWFAddress 2.2 in a Command List Pattern design pattern was done in a Shared Command manner. This is of interest to those who use the Cairngorm framework.
I separated the events that would drive the changing of the content:

SWFAddress events responds from the URL call from a server and to internal calls to SWFAddress class via setValue() to change the content, which execute the content change.
The button events of the menu items, these set the value …

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I finally had a chance to whip out a gallery page. I already had the functionality planned out so it was just a matter of building the classes. I had considered implementing another design pattern to run it but as it is not something that I would manually change and most of the structure is static.
I also used an old Unix style tool called gFind to build the lists directly off a directory of images and outputting it as a …

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UPDATE:
I have installed a system that applies a version of the Wordpress styles.css to this flash front end, this means I can use the styles tags in Wordpress to format my text. I will document the steps soon. Finally I can enjoy reading my own blog without the Typographer in me cringing!
I am currently working on a better way to keep some of the formatting done in Wordpress in the final display in AS3. These are the methods I propose:
1. …

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It isn’t new but I finally had a chance to install Wordpress and hook my Flash blog system to the front end.
The main differences is the rss2 feed from Wordpress compared to the feed from blogger.
The rss2 feed from Wordpress
The Formatting of the RSS2 adheres to the web standards which is great. In order to deal with the XML feed you need to understand Namespaces to get the correct xml child and general XML usage.
This is part of the feed …

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UPDATE: This site is now driven by Wordpress which is installed on this server. Even so the information below is still relevant. With the recent issues with pipes.yahoo.com and the critical bug that they had with their system I have decided to remove the two uncontrollable systems that my site is reliant on, blogger.com and yahoo.pipes. I have set up my own Wordpress blog on my server, this will allow me to manage and maintain issues myself. It also reduces …

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Any site that needs interaction between various elements (menu buttons to page builders and more) have a behavioural need. This site uses a Command Pattern with a Command List to control the behaviour of the menu buttons and the content. The other reason to use a Command Patterns is to easily change the function of various menu items, in this case say the links menus.
The structure is based on the catagory tags and the publishing date order from my blogg. …

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