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Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin

Peter — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:47:26 +0000

Last night I started writing a plugin to easily embed the Flash Media Playback video component on WordPress blogs and its now ready for you all to use! Flash Media Playback is a free media player based on the Open Source Media Framework and hosted by Adobe so its ideal for bloggers to use. You read more »

TwitLive AIR application

Peter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:44:47 +0000

Last Sunday afternoon I was listening to The Tech Guy on twitlive.tv and when I accidentally closed its tab one too many times decided to quickly make an AIR app for it to have it available as a desktop application. It literally took me 11 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. read more »

AIR Badge WordPress plugin

Peter — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:26:38 +0000

If you want to distribute AIR applications the install badge is definitely the best way to go. The one problem I had with it is that its a pain to prepare and embed on your blog. To help remedy this I started working on this AIR Badge plugin last night, it allows you to simply read more »

AMFPHP and Flex 2

Peter — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:45:18 +0000

There have been a number of posts and tutorials posted on this topic but just wanted to post it here as well because I’ve heard some people who were under the impression it is not possible to hook AMFPHP or other Flash Remoting solutions up to Flex 2. Flex 2 uses a newer and more read more »

WordPress updated to 2.0.1

Peter — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:30:59 +0000

If you're running WordPress its well worth doing the upgrade to 2.0.1! I just did it here this afternoon and it fixes a whole lot of issues I had with 2.0.

Configuring a Flash application – Part Two

Peter — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:34:54 +0000

DMXzone.com has just published my follow-up article on using an XML file to configure your Flash applications, its a pretty cool piece even if I say so myself ;)

WP-ShortStat WordPress plugin

Peter — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:24:44 +0000

I recently got word from my good friend (and CMS guru) mattie about a great plugin. This plugin is a really cool addition to those of you running a WordPress blog for getting some visitor stats (including those that read it through your RSS feed) inside the admin panel. Extremely easy to install, just upload read more »

mySQL 5.0 alpha available for download

Peter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ActionScript Hero has just reported some great news, a developer edition of mySQL 5.0 alpha is available for download which includes support for stored procedures. I remember working on a project a while back involving Microsoft SQL Server and it took me quite a while to get my head around the concept of stored procedures. read more »

AMF-PHP multiple method calls

Peter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re working with Flash Remoting using AMF-PHP you might have encountered some problems in the latest release with doing multiple method calls. I’ve been browsing the mailinglist and came across a solution by Justin Watkins that fixes this problem. You can download an updated version of “Executive.php” and use that to replace the old read more »

SHA1 class for PHP4

Peter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve written this SHA1 class in PHP quite a while ago but thought I might just put it up in case anyone’s still interested in using it. The code was ported from Branden Hall’s SHA1 Secure Hash for Flash MX which in turn was based on a JavaScript implementation. You can download the code here, read more »