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“Django 1.0 Template Development” book review
Ultimately, buying Django 1.0 Template Development comes down to what kind of learner you are: Django’s official documentation, the Django Book, and the Django users Google Group, should give most Web developers and template authors enough to learn most of the template system, but the book can be a handy reference and walk-through that will hold your hand in a lot of sticky points. The examples in the book are bound to teach something to even the most seasoned Django developers.
How to Create a Multimedia Promo Widget
After being inspired by the Globe and Mail’s promo embed for their latest package “Behind the Veil,” I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Knight Digital Media Center has an easy tutorial teaching users how to create a publication widget. While the Globe and Mail built a separate flash file with corresponding embed code, this tutorial will teach you how to use Widgetbox to make a customizable widget for a blog/twitter feed, photo/video gallery, and much more. So, while in the mood to learn a new trick, I followed the simple steps to make a widget for II.
Multimedia Advice: How to build map mashups
As mashups become increasingly more popular in multimedia presentations, it is important that producers learn how to create them. Therefore, I asked Chris to explain how to get started building map mashups, with information on both the Google map API and UMapper.
FlashTip: Updated tips on SWFAddress
Since October, I have been receiving at least one email a week on my deeplinking with SWFAddress tutorial. I thought that one in particular might be of use to others trying to master deeplinking, so I am posting it here with his approval.
Conforming multimedia packages to user standards
We have all heard the saying, “Design sites for your user’s computer, not your own.” If you are fortunate enough to have the freedom to build projects free of prior size and display constraints, you then have to decide how to conform your design appropriately. I was lucky to get this opportunity at The Roanoke Times, where all of my interactives lived separate from Roanoke.com. So, let’s look at how I handled it, what I could have done better, and what the experts say.
Example files and tips for deeplinking with Flash SWF Address
Back in October I wrote a tutorial on how to utilizing deep links in Flash files. This post has consistently been the most viewed page on the site and I have been receiving several emails asking for help fixing bugs. Although I am happy to help individual cases, I decided it might be best to provide my files as well as publish other II reader’s trials, tribulations and success stories to help everyone out there who is also working with SWF Address.
FlarToolkit introduces augmented reality using Flash
My former classmate Jason Tucker passed along a fascinating concept that he discovered using FlarToolkit. In layman’s terms, he described it to me as a tool that “uses your webcam, tracks a shape and then uses that with PaperVision and Flash Player 10 to create an augmented reality.” He continued by saying that “you could potentially use it to track a person’s eyes and use their webcam to control a panoramic image as they rotate their head.” That got my attention!
Flash Tip: Migrating from AS2 to AS3
Actionscript 3.0 is fundamental to integrating more robust interactive applications into your Flash presentations. I have been putting it off for some time now (aren’t we all a bit resistant to change?), but today I took the giant leap and taught myself AS3. And, now I wish I would have done it sooner. Here are the major differences between AS2 and AS3 and what you need to know to start learning AS3 today.
Flash Tip: Detecting end of videos
I finally sat down today to watch “Remember Me,” a great multimedia project by Concord Monitor. Brent Foster of Visual Journalist posted the behind-the-scenes story, and I knew I wanted to spend quality time with it. As I ate lunch, I watched the presentation. The only problem was that nothing happened at the end of each of the six videos, disrupting my viewing experience as I had to manually start the next. For those who want to sit back and watch, it would have been nice to add a feature that detects the end of one video to immediately start the next. Here’s how to do it …
Designing interactives for mobile devices
Planning and designing mobile versions of interactives has become increasingly more important as our audience depends more on iPhones, BlackBerry devices and other cellphones. But wait, Flash doesn’t work on mobile devices, right? Not entirely … there might be hope for Flash developers.
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