A new tutorial – Flash Clock with the server’s time using PHP – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to display date and time in Flash, using the Date Class.
You’ll also learn how to output the time on the server using PHP, load it into Flash as a variable name/value pair, and display it in the hh:mm:ss format.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Drag and Drop game with ActionScript 3 – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to drag and drop objects in AS3.
You’ll learn how to calculate the distance between two objects and use the TweenLite Class to slide one of them.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Flash Mail Form with Swift Mailer – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to send emails using the Swift Mailer PHP library and how to do this using an SMTP server (including GMail’s as well).
You’ll learn how to create a Flash form in ActionScript 3 and how to send emails by communicating with a PHP script from Flash.
The tutorial is available here.
Finally the long awaited release of CodeIgniter 2.0 is here.
It had been available in BitBucket for a long time, but now you can have the official release.
Read more about it and grab it here.
jQuery 1.5 has just been released.
You can read about what’s new and grab it from here.
When you install Notepad++ the default behaviour when using find when searching a word in a document is either choosing up or down.
I find this behaviour really irritating because it stops working when you reach the start or the end of the document.
Fortunately, you can use the not so obvious “Wrap around” option to find a word throughout the whole document.
