Author Archives: Patrick

Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.

By Patrick | Published: April 20, 2009
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

By Patrick | Published: April 6, 2009
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

By Patrick | Published: March 11, 2009
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

By Patrick | Published: February 27, 2009
Wow. Gmail is really fast today.
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LACP Recognizes Caterpillar Progress Site

By Patrick | Published: October 29, 2008
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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Some Oldies but Goodies

By Patrick | Published: October 12, 2008
I’m bringing some old projects from former portfolios into this site and putting them in the blog with historically accurate (kind of) post dates. I wasn’t blogging back in ’02, but I’m posting these items back there anyway. Here’s what I’ve added: “Snow Chase” Holiday Game LED Animation for Dayton Flyers Basketball Trebuchet Simulation Brewery [...]
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Caterpillar Progress Site Recognized in Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web

By Patrick | Published: September 13, 2008
Our Caterpillar Progress site made Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web list. Read about it here or below. 2008 Best of Web: The Winners (cont’d) VSA PARTNERS Caterpillar’s signature-yellow construction and mining machines are icons of American industry: For more than 80 years, that equipment has been building the world’s infrastructure. In 2005 [...]
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Out to Dinner

By Patrick | Published: July 21, 2008
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Showing Off

By Patrick | Published: June 14, 2008
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PointRoll Banners for Caterpillar Progress

By Patrick | Published: June 2, 2008
As banners go, these ones I did to promote the Caterpillar Progress site are pretty cool. They are your typical annoying ones that open over page content when rolled over. I did 3 different sizes of the ad. And I used the PointRoll Flash API for tracking.
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