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Archive for May, 2008
I’m using Fluency.
Just downloaded and installed Dean Robinson’s Fluency Admin Plug-in for Wordpress 2.5 + - And, for the most part - it looks so much better than the default admin. For those of you who used Steve Smiths Tiger Admin with earlier versions, this should keep you happy…
One day I’m going to try and make my own plugin… but for now learning about event bubbling in As3 i keeping me plenty of busy methinks.
In other news, that only applies to me and a few friends - I finally moved to Glasgow… and I’m lovin’ it. It’s just so busy and lively.
p.s. Did google change it’s favicon?
Just found something that could turn out to be quite useful!
From the authors site..
“Falcon was created in a sudden realization that it was a fair number of steps to access a server script in Flash and probably a custom class would be helpful. Now it can be done in three steps. Import Falcon, make an instance of the class and set an event for when the data is loaded.”
Driveby Argument
Well, that’s that, finally Driveby’s album is out… went to the release party last night, and they played a played an awesome show. An after we went to a nice club and got drunk… Colin and I tried to buy a blow up sheep in the toilets only to find they were sold out (I’m guessing there are a lot of lonely men in Glasgow). Me and Nic then stumbled back to hers, where I attempted some as3 scripting at 2 in the morning (Jo you owe me massively). Only to wake up at quarter past 7. So I’m currently running on 3 hours sleep, 1 coffee and 1 greggs cheese and onion pasty. I’m am fucking Hardcore.
Flash Header for wordpress P2 - Flash
Right, knocked up something that would use the php script I uploaded the other day, It brings in the data and builds a menu either for pages (with home page) or posts. I’ve also knocked up something that takes the post / page data and puts it in a text field incase anyone decides to build on it and turn it into something awesome (I might later if I have time - use swfaddress and all that).
Oh, and Load Learn it’s in as2.. 
Get more info on the php side of things at the previous post.
Popular Guy, eh?
I’ve apparently got 4,294,967,063 email in my inbox - which makes me think that either a) My spam blocker is incredibly shit or b) my MacBook’s taken a funny turn.
According to here that’s two days worth of every email sent on the planet… popular guy.
Flash Header for wordpress P1 - PHP
Update: Just noticed that if there were any posts not meant in the main menu but as subpages they would still show up - I’ve amended this now, so all should be good.
I just knocked this up yesterday (or the day before, depending on when you define a day change; midnight, or when you roll out of your pit), it’s basically a php script that can read the contents of your wordpress install (v 2.5 +) and output an xml file easily read by flash…
SOURCE (php / zip)
If you install this is the root of your theme folder (ie /wp-contents/themes/*nameoftheme*/) and goto
wp-contents/themes/*nameoftheme*/flash_header.php?postType=post
to read the posts in your wp or
wp-contents/themes/*nameoftheme*/flash_header.php?postType=page
to read the pages.
It also outputs the content of each post/page so effectively you could use it as a basis to start your own wordpress powered flash site.
Example Output
<?xml version=’1.0′?>
<wp_posts>
<post ID=’2′ postDate=’2008-04-30 08:32:54′ postName=’about’ postGUID=’http://www.dev.papertank.net/wordpress/?page_id=2′>
<postTitle><![CDATA[About]]></postTitle>
<content><![CDATA[Hi and welcome to Papertank.
We are a graphic design company that specialises in web development. But we also have a broad portfolio that incorporates album artwork, logo design and photography.
To view our most recent work, please visit the Portfolio Section or read the company Blog]]></content>
</post>
<wp_posts>
I’ll hopefully post up some example flash code to help you create your own flash header soon.
