http://www.liamr.com/blog This is the personal compendium of 23 year old Graphic Designer Liam J Rutherford, currently residing in Glasgow, Scotland. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:57:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apologies for not updating this blog that often... just too busy / lack of interesting things to talk about. These days I tend to restrain my musings to 120 characters. I also try and keep my portfolio up to date, if you want a look there. Oh, and if you're ever knocking ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=201 Just installed Snow Leopard yesterday and the performance of Flash Player in the browser it atrocious! I've made a quick graphic to show the differences between various machines running Safari (various versions). Hopefully we'll have a fix soon! UPDATE: This is only within the Safari Browser, It works great in Firefox! LINK http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=194 UPDATE: I don't know how I missed this, but since v 2.1 SwfAddress has the getPathNames() method which does exactly what my bit of code does... ah well. Anyway I'll leave it up as it has the basics of string splitting and other stuff... Thanks to Cam for pointing this out... and ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=185 A few days ago the fantasticly talented Ed Watt (@designed) posted up a link on Twitter to the Clock Clock project by those crazy Swedes Humans since 1982... Anyway, I decided to have a go at recreating it in AS3 just for the hell of it... Here's the example, and ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=173 Hey everyone! I keep meaning to update this blog with various titbits and stuff, but I never seem to have the time - anyway, thought I'd post up this wee drop down (combo) menu class I decided to build yesterday - It's not been from any specific project, I just decided ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=164 Been meaning to get this out for ages! But alas, I've been totally snowed under with work, and the fact that I'm all about the as3 now ;-) I've realised I'm never going to go through it and refine it and comment it for the community... so you're getting ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=153 Just trying out the quickpress addage. http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=150 Check Out the screencast - Made with the awesome Jing! How I built it... Just finished the first draft of a site for photographer Trent Bailey... I essentially got free reign on this for the page transitions - just the basic layout was to be kept the same... so I sat down ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=148 Ah, man! have I been busy... Just launched http://www.ireneneuwirth.com with Designed Memory a few weeks back, and It's been getting a lot of good feedback... I actually built an early version of the site just with AS3 all in one fla, but after coming across Steven Sack's Gaia Framework, ... http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=147 Wordpress: I promise never to abandon you again when too much work comes along...  (And I won't taint you with all my tweets...)   http://www.liamr.com/blog/?p=146