This isn’t too complicated, but it’s something I hadn’t come across until a few days ago. If you want to tween an object relatively, but the new value changes and needs to be a variable, just cast it as a string. If you’re not using TweenMax/TweenLite, do yourself a favor and give it a try.
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Worst Company Name Ever
Good company names can be hard to find, but terrible names should be easy to avoid. I wish I was at the meeting when they came up with this one. There are so many things here that I disagree with. With spelling and layout alone: The first letter is not capitalized They’ve taken out a [...]
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Surf’s Up: The Branding of Google Wave vs. Microsoft Bing
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world. Last Thursday, tech giants Microsoft and Google each had a big announcement. The former officially announced its new search engine Bing, an announcement that the tech world knew was coming, as its latest attempt to reverse the tide of Google’s search dominance. The latter [...]
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Thematic Photosplicing by Peter Funch
Peter Funch has some great shots from NYC where he takes many, many pictures from the same spot and then splices them together based on themes he finds among the individual passersby. Looks like a tedious process but the results are worth it.
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Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.
While finishing up a project a couple months ago, I ran into a problem trying to preload a SWF. Everything worked fine in my development environment. I was throttling my bandwidth using Charles to test things, and the preloader was working as expected. But when I posted it to staging my Flash preloader was broken. [...]
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Easily Test & View Alternative Content while Using SWFObject
SWFObject is great. I’ve been using it to embed Flash content in my pages since the IE / Eolas “click to activate” thing when it was still called FlashObject. But SWFObject is missing a feature. It’s not easy enough to test your non-Flash alternative content. You can bump up the required version number to one [...]
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Forcing Vertical Scrollbar Gutter to Show to Prevent Page Shift while Using swffit
Update: This fix is no longer necessary. When explaining it to a coworker, we discovered a new version of swffit with a new method called showScrollV() that does the same thing. A common problem with centered web site layouts is what’s been dubbed “page shift.” This happens as users move among pages that are too [...]
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Gmail: So Fast it’s from the Future
Wow. Gmail is really fast today.
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LACP Recognizes Caterpillar Progress Site
Our Caterpillar Progress site was given the Platinum Award for Most Creative Overall by the League of American Communications Professionals with in their 2008 Spotlight Awards Print, Video & Web Competition.
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