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Create a Facebook application like “Friend interview” – Step 3

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 24, 2010 • 23 Comments

Here we go with the 3rd step. In this tutorial you will learn how to publish a full featured feed post to your friends’ wall, and to handle “umlauts” characters like “äöü” for the pleasure of our German readers, and for every user who has friends whose names contain special characters. This is the kind [...]

Deep linking in flash with AS3

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 18, 2010 • 4 Comments

Do you remember Krasimir Tsonev? He’s the author of the tween manager class and The Big Adventure. He gave me the permission to publish an interesting post about Flash and search engine optimization. Many people will say that Flash is not SEO friendly. Actually that’s not 100% true. Flash is just a tool that shows [...]

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Full screen centered background image with CSS and jQuery # 2

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 16, 2010 • 7 Comments

There are a couple of improvements to do to Full screen centered background image with CSS and jQuery to add some functionality such as window resizing management and make it compatible with Opera. First, you should change the CSS to <style type="text/css"> #triquiback{ left: 0; top: 0; position:fixed; overflow:hidden; zIndex: -9999 } #triquibackimg{ position:relative } [...]

Don’t miss Flash Gaming Summit 2011

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 15, 2010 • 4 Comments

If you are a Flash game developer or a publisher, you shouldn’t miss Flash Gaming Summit 2011. For the third year the conference will bring together leaders in the Flash game space to share industry insights and strategies on successful game design, development and monetization. Do you want some names? Chris Harris from Ninja Kiwi [...]

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Full screen centered background image with CSS and jQuery

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 13, 2010 • 25 Comments

Recently a lot of sites feature a full screen background image. Full screen background images can be used to give some sort of liquid effect to fixed layouts, or just to show full screen images in some special occurrences, such as Christmas or the launch of a new service. This is what you’ll get: demo. [...]

Getting started with Adobe Alchemy – Mac version

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 8, 2010 • 4 Comments

Do you know what is Adobe Alchemy? Alchemy allows programmers to compile C and C++ scripts into SWC files to make them run on Adobe Flash Player 10 or Adobe AIR 1.5. In other words, you can compile the hundreds of millions of lines of existing open source C and C++ project to use them [...]

JellyPhysics soft body engine for Flash

Emanuele Feronato on Nov 4, 2010 • 12 Comments

When I say the most valuable resource in a blog is made by its readers, I am right. Readers make the blog popular, contribute with precious comments and ideas, like the ones published by Luis Francesco Silva, author of Flave and a Box2D platform engine. This time he got addicted by Jelly Car. It’s a [...]