Dan L. posted an article on The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog - Nov 28, 2009, 1:49 pm
Monday's edition of the Guardian reported that Ofsted was facing a crisis in public confidence as it came 'under a series of attacks on its authority this week, with the watchdog accused of be...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Nov 18, 2009, 10:25 am
I said I would test it out, and the verdict is... yes. At least, it did with the Dell projector I tried it on. While I initially found that there was more ghosting on the projector image when viewed ...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Nov 10, 2009, 4:00 pm
I was at Sainsbury's today (unusual, but I happened to be near one) and came across a big point-of-sale bin thing with loads of FREE 3D glasses in it. Apparently Channel-4 is hosting a 3D week, wh...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Nov 9, 2009, 3:09 pm
Finally here is the solution. It turns out you can use NetConnect and NetStream to make an MP3 player in Flash, but only if you encapsulate all your MP3s as FLV files. Not really very helpful since it...
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Dan L. posted an article on The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 1:55 pm
Seán posted a comment on an earlier post of mine about learning styles and linked to his views on the subject. I thought I would reply. Here's a devastating scientific criticism of the popular bu...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Sep 28, 2009, 3:45 pm
My last post was all about my array sorting problem. But I thought you might want to see the final product. It was actually a game I put together to help my new students relax and get to know each ot...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Sep 25, 2009, 1:57 pm
Just lately I have been having fun with arrays. Of course, I say "having fun", what I mean is having problems. Especially with sorting numerically. Arrays are really useful, they allow you to store d...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Sep 16, 2009, 3:43 pm
This is always one issue that concerns me about my students. You get the creative ones who hate computers, then you get the computer geeks who think knowing the software will somehow make up for their...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Sep 5, 2009, 5:27 am
Whether you are a Freelance, Student or work within a studio, you will probably find Sitepoint's latest offer an interesting if not valuable read. It's a 200 page eBook on The Principles of S...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 31, 2009, 4:58 am
My last post looked at setting up a testing server for web designers. One of the options included building your own server running BlueOnyx for easy set-up and easy server management. The thing that m...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 31, 2009, 2:10 am
Call it what you like, a "testbed", a "testing server", a "sandbox server", it all amounts to the same thing - a server for testing your sites, scripts, databases before you "go live". When it comes t...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 24, 2009, 1:10 am
In these modern times with such a rapid pace of progress we often mistake old or antiquated as meaning irrelevant. But we couldn't be more wrong. I learned yesterday, from a child's book, tha...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 12, 2009, 11:32 am
A couple of months ago I posted a solution for getting a MovieClip to follow the mouse, with easing. It was a quick solution for controlling the 'player' in a top-down car game. Since then I ...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 10, 2009, 6:28 am
I have a fair number of posts on here that describe funky uses of actionscript, but without showing examples of what I am talking about. The good news is that I have now started adding demo SWFs to p...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 7, 2009, 7:23 am
Now we are beginning to see the end result of all my experiments with manipulating colour using Actionscript. Using the techniques from my previous posts, and a few others to get a working interface, ...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 6, 2009, 3:49 pm
I have been using Blogger since August 2007 very happily. And though everyone has their favourite blog system, and although I have even been recommended that Wordpress is better, there is something th...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 6, 2009, 2:02 pm
Recent posts have looked at the Actionscript required to convert decimal numbers into hexadecimal strings. And if we don't look any deeper everything looks hunkydory for mixing any colour we like ...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 6, 2009, 10:08 am
My last two posts looked at how you can use Actionscript to change the colour of a MovieClip, and to convert decimal colour values into hexadecimal. Teething Trouble But as I work towards harnessing...
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Dan L. posted an article on Dan's Interactive Media Pages - Aug 4, 2009, 12:19 pm
Converting decimal colour values into hexadecimal is one part of the puzzle, but then we have to use the result to dynamically change the colour of a MovieClip. One of the inconsistent(?), and certai...
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