Code | MadeByPi® Blog

Jul 5, 2011

Gershwin

Posted by ColinG | Filed under Development

Gershwin, what a name, Gershwin is the name of the next update available right now from WordPress.

Version 3.2 offers plenty of new features including a really neat looking full-screen mode window for when writing blog posts, a brilliant cropping tool for images for your article posts, a generally quicker admin area and the dropping of support for IE6.

The WordPress update is available now via your WordPress Admin.

For more information check out this great introduction video.

Nov 24, 2010

Videos from Build

Posted by ColinG | Filed under Cool stuff, Where we've been

Videos have now appeared on Vimeo of all the talks from this years Build Conference that we attended earlier this month at the Waterfront Studio, Belfast!

Videos from Build

Check them out here at vimeo.com

Nov 17, 2010

Build Conference 2010

Posted by ColinG | Filed under Cool stuff, Where we've been

Build

Me and fellow MadeByPi'er Matt Aitken recently went to the Build Conference in Belfast, the conference was only there for it's second year but that didn't stop it from being both an informative and inspirational conference.

(more...)

Apr 30, 2010

Blend modes with Pixel Bender – an update…

Posted by Mikea | Filed under Cool stuff, Development, MadeByPi® Labs

I posted this blend mode stuff a long time ago, but the interface was awful and it slipped most people by.

So, I've packaged all the code up into a handy SWC and made a better example application for you to play with.

Here's the test page, and here's the SWC. As well as clicking on the source images to load new ones, you can save your blended creations by clicking on the output window.

(more...)

Jan 19, 2010

Nonsecure items in IE (Solved!)

Posted by ColinG | Filed under Security, Usability

We recently came across an issue when creating a site with SSL plugged in that in Internet Explorer we were getting the good ol' "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items." popup. It took us a good long while before we finally realised what it was... Fancybox!

(more...)

Jan 7, 2010

HTML5, CSS3 Demo

Posted by ColinG | Filed under Cool stuff, Design, MadeByPi® Labs

We've recently been looking into HTML5 and CSS3 and in-turn ended up making a demo page which, both shows off some of the things you can do with HTML5/CSS3 but also informs you (or tries to) of some of the things you could come to expect from it.

(more...)

Sep 18, 2009

AS3 Java-style .properties parser

Posted by Mikea | Filed under MadeByPi® Labs

properties

You might be familiar with .properties files if you've worked with ant or Java in general.

If not, in short they're text files containing name-value pairs, usually used for application or build configuration. They allow comments and property values split over multiple lines, with a \ line-end delimiter.

For a recent project I needed to be able to parse, in Flash, .properties files coming from a java-based cms - so made the PropertiesParser.

I'm making it available here, with a small example showing the parsing of a .properties files and reading values from the result.

I hope it comes in useful

Get the code

Aug 20, 2008

BBC Trial in page links

Posted by admin | Filed under Cool stuff, Technology

For a limited period the BBC News Website is experimenting with clickable links within the body of news stories. If you click on one of these links, a window will appear containing background material relevant to the highlighted word. Content is being pulled in from sites like YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia and it seems to be done pretty well.