Working on this for over a year now. Check it out here:
Check out my latest: Ministakes.com
February 22nd, 2010Small change
September 6th, 2009There appears to be a worm circulating the internet, hacking into wordpress blogs that are not up-to-date. I have one of the earliest versions of wordpress running, so I decided to upgrade. Now, I kinda forgot to backup the theme files (and some other) so thats why everything looks weird right now…
August updates
August 10th, 2009Check out this little thing. It is a countdown widget to the Lowlands festival in Holland. It also parses the lowlands RSS feed.
Stuff has been pretty slow the last year or two. Just working hard at my job as a project manager and trying to get my graduation finished (Just a little 3 year delay… ).
A month or 2 ago I suddenly decided that this was not the way forward. I realized that my job pretty much sucks. The job is too easy, not challenging and not as much into web/tech as I would like. So I decided to quit.
And the timing could not be better. I’ve been working on my graduation in my spare time since October 2008, almost a full year and it’s almost finished now. I honestly believe that I can make a living out of this project and I will be going at it 100%, starting January. Though as long as it’s not paying the bills I will be doing freelance Flash / Web jobs.
It is a pretty tough decision to make, quitting your job in a recession. But I feel like now is my time. And I am going for it.
Flash CS4 FLVplayback component not showing up
May 18th, 2009
Just a quick note for when you are using Flash CS4 and your flvplayback component does not show on stage:
Be sure the constructor function of you as3 class does not have a return.
So instead of
class MyClass extends MovieClip {
public functionMyClass():void{
// stuff
return
}
}
you should use:
public class MyClass extends MovieClip{
public function MyClass(){
//stuff
}
}
Flash AS3 TextField Alpha
May 15th, 2009A though one to figure out: Setting the Alpha (transparancy) value for a textfield:
import flash.display.BlendMode;
[...]
textfield.text = 'Some text';
textfield.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER;
textfield.alpha = 0.5;
You can also add textFormatting if you like…
Google spreadsheets: Random numbers and decimals
May 11th, 2009Google spreadsheets has 2 build-in random-number functions. Rand() and Randbetween().
Most of the time, I use randbetween(), because it offers a quick and easy way to insert some random numbers. However, this function only insert rounded numbers.
If you want to insert random numbers with decimals, you can use Rand(). I will explain both functions here.
AS3: Loading external SWF and calling its functions
March 18th, 2009I’ve had some trouble with loading an external SWF file and then calling the functions of that SWF file. It works like so:
Main swf code:
Sub swf code:
Combining 2 tables with Google Docs Spreadsheets VLOOKUP
March 18th, 2009Let’s say we have 2 tables that we want to combine:
In both tables, we have Personal nr. and we want to add the data from the second table to the data from the first table.
For this we will use VLOOKUP.
Install English language for Joomla after deleting it
January 22nd, 2009Just a quick tip for those that use the award winning Joomla CMS:
If one of your clients deletes the English language pack by mistake (my mistake for giving him admin-rights), simply upload the en-EN from the original zip file and you’re done!
Finding this post on Google might save you half an hour of searching the Joomla forums.
Google spreadsheets, SUMIF and $
April 27th, 2008A little explanation on the SUMIF function in google spreadsheets. Understanding this function will help you understand many other spreadsheet functions.