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2010 Update
Hello Everyone, The time has come for me to update my personal and professional portfolio. I would like to say it will take days but the reality is that I have 10 years worth of work to go through. I will update as I go, so expect daily updates. A few of these post are [...]
Playing and Looping Audio
I recently completed my first Silverlight animation and I ended up stumbling with playing and looping an MP3 file for the animations background music. My first instinct was to add the MP3 file to the Solution but quickly found that Silverlight doesn't handle media file as an embed asset within its compiled XAP file but [...]
Replace Your Incandescent Holiday Lights With Seasonal L.E.D. Lights
On the weekend I packed up my old Christmas lights and headed over to The Home Depot as they had a 2 day only Holiday Light Exchange event. The program was simple, bring in your old incandescent light strings and The Home Depot will give you a coupon for 50% off their regularly priced energy [...]
One Million Acts of Green
Tonight, in partnership with CBC and The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos, we launched One Million Acts of Green. The project is the brain child of Cisco, the idea behind the campaign is that one small act can make a big difference. OMAoG is about mobilizing Canadians without overhauling their life; it's about one act from [...]
Getting Started With phpFlickr
Today we are going to take a look at phpFlickr 2.2.0, a PHP class written by Dan Coulter in PHP4. It acts as a wrapper for Flickr's API and its methods return Flickr's XML response as well structured and simple to read arrays. There is a prerequisite for this article, you will need your own [...]
Local Database
A friend learning PHP, recently asked me how they can mimic a database when the site they are working on does not have access to one. The following will show you how we can use an Array to create a local database and nested Arrays to create tables, rows and columns as key/value pairs. [...]
JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML
I recently had an opportunity to work with JSON when a co-worker looked at my XML for transferring data from an application to our server. He recommend we move to JSON. JSON is described as a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write but more importantly, easy for systems to [...]
WordPress Flash Menu
Inspired by Lee Brimelow's video tutorial PHP, MySQL, and Flash, lets take a look at the steps necessary to pass your WordPress pages info into your own flash menu. Similar to the tutorial, the process is as follows: PHP gets the data from the mySQL database and outputs a structured XML document which Flash loads [...]
SWF: Disabling Cache
The trick to disabling the browser from loading your flash movies from its cache is to append a unique ID to the movie. Today we'll take a look at how a small piece of JavaScript code can force a new download. We will also look at how this trick has been misused by appending variables [...]
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