http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk Interactive design and development Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:13:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of our most recent projects has involved developing a set of creative tools in Flex / AS3 which are part of a larger academically funded project in which digital tools are used in Design and Technology to encourage creativity and teamwork. This is part of broader discourse in education ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/12/creative-tools-for-e-assessment/ Everyone must have had that project? The one that keeps on trukin right through the project deadline, right through the next week and for whatever reason (and there are numerous legitimate ones) right through to a point when you don’t remember a time without it? I *think* we have just ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/12/friday-feeling-x52/ I have previously written a post about the potential bug which seems to occur when importing multiple swcs into Flex Builder 3 for pure actionscript projects. Despite this I cannot express how handy it is to be able to import swcs into Flex Builder; for one reason because it renders ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/09/importing-a-swc-into-flex-builder-for-pure-actionscript-projects/ We are currently working on some CSS for a client who requested the site be created to ‘Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0’. For those who wish to know this is a guideline by the W3C and conformance to Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3: 'Conformance to ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/09/one-world-one-browser/ As most of the Flash development here is now pure object-oriented in AS3 I have been working in Flex Builder 3.0 for my pure ActionScript projects on any new Flash projects. We left behind Flash IDE for the same reasons as most: it's text editor is inadequate and the code ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/09/using-multiple-swcs-in-flex-builder-30/ Lovely lovely words. Wordle is a java app developed by a guy from IBM. It generates "word clouds" from a sample of text you provide or generates it dynamically from your blog URL (with an RSS feed) or del.icio.us user name. Above is the the cloud from this blog. Ten ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/08/wordle-beautiful-tag-clouds/ Just a quick update on the Google Analytics work I have been doing in-amongst writing a desktop application to detect proxy settings (maybe more on that later)… I have completed the move from development to live server and have implemented some code for Flash banners to call the Google Analytics JavaScript ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/08/tracking-with-google-analytics-from-flash/ Since Kirsten seems to be firmly in control of our work related posts, I’ll continue to wax lyrical about the weather and temperature in here. After some long drawn out conversations with the management of the building, it was agreed that the hosting company downstairs (there un-ventilated sever room is ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/08/climatron-air-conditioning-unit/ We have been working with a client on a website (www.modernselling.com) for sales focused users for several years and have built a system to turn dynamically driven urls (such as news.apx?pageid=xx) into SEO friendly urls (such as news/sales-news-headlines/insider-trading-arrests.aspx). The client has spent hundreds of hours (and therefore thousands of pounds) struggling ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/switching-from-webtrends-to-google-analytics/ I'm not going to be that person who moans about the weather in England when its rubbish and then also when it gets a little sticky when the sun comes out........but it's damn hot in our office and the air conditioning isn't working.  This being the first Ultraviolet blog post ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/hot-in-the-city/