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07:10:2009
Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service
Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service
For this post, I decided to change things up a bit. Rather than go explore complex application patterns or data visualization, we’re going back to basics. We will be covering how to make a basic application that makes a call to a web service and retrieves data.
via Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service | InsideRIA .
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06:19:2009
Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
Almost everyone out there who runs a website has toyed with the idea of selling ads on their website. So many options are available. Dozens of ad and affiliate networks exist, and you have different ad formats to consider. Should you sell text ads or banner ads? Should you allow Flash ads? What about ads with sound, pop-ups or floating ads? People have so many decisions to make that they often just end up slapping on some AdSense code and calling it a day. And that’s fine.
via Ad Management Plug-Ins And Tutorials For Your Website | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine.
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Howto: Wordpress 2.7+ Most Popular Posts Widget | tripwire magazine
In this article tripwire magazine provides a mini-tutorial on how to setup a Most Popular Posts Widget in Wordpress (hit based). In my opinion it is a good feature to have on a blog as it may trigger visitors to click to see a few more articles. At the same time I found that it is not that simple and out of the box to create it for Wordpress as I was expecting. I managed to get a working solution for tripwire magazine that I’m still testing and keeping an eye on, but I think it is stable enough to share with you.
via Howto: Wordpress 2.7+ Most Popular Posts Widget | tripwire magazine .
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06:11:2009
Publishing Extend of WordPress – - WP Engineer
Not always you want to solve things like WordPress provides and you seek for a different solution. Sometimes you don’t need various applications of the backend to publish posts.
A simple example would be a form, no matter where, where the contents of the form should automatically published on your WordPress blog. Alternatively, you could send it with a different status, and therefore only publish them if the admin approves it.
For a good start, here is the function, which is pretty powerful and for all processes of the publication responsible.
via Publishing Extend of WordPress – - WP Engineer.
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06:10:2009
Jonnie Spratley | Adobe Flex – Introduction to XML-RPC
When developers start building web applications with Flex or desktop applications with Air, you come to the point when you want to do more with your application. For instance if you are working for a company and you just got finished building a product manager for SandKicker clothing, and he decided since you did such a great job that application he has asked you to build him another application for him, but not anything for his company something for him, something for his blog that he has had for years.
via Jonnie Spratley | Adobe Flex – Introduction to XML-RPC.
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06:05:2009
Grunge Photo Edges (PSD Hero)
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In this Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a quick and effective way to create a cool photo edge effect using a single Photoshop grunge brush and a series of clipping masks.
You should already know how to load Brushes into Photoshop and how to rotate those brushes in the Brushes palette. If that sounds like Chinese to you, check out my previous tutorials on the subject: Installing And Managing Brushes & Other Presets and Rotating Brushes.
via PSHERO | Photoshop Tutorials | Grunge Photo Edges .
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05:31:2009
Amateur Snapper | Painting with Light
I find good photography resouces hard to come by on the web, so if you are looking here is a great one called Amateur Snapper, great articles like this one painting with light check them out!
Painting with Light
Painting with light is a fascinating photography technique where you illuminate areas of a long exposure shot with a light source to create some stunning effects.
via Amateur Snapper | Painting with Light.
