Let’s face it; Photoshop is the tool of the trade and something no designer should be without today. The unrivalled power within that harbours the potential to create stunning visuals is not easy to master; however, there are plenty of tricks at your disposal to help you get by. With the year nearly behind us,… Read more »
The Field Collection module has become essential to our work with Drupal, allowing us to create “compound” fields – fields within fields. When using the Node Export module to export nodes from one Drupal instance to another, Node Export doesn’t provide a way to transfer the field collection data. It turns out that it’s easy… Read more »
Working on a project the other day I came across a problem with some existing CSS where the selectors for basic elements all included the ID’s for the layout containers. this was causing huge problems when any external mark-up was dropped into the page. The generic styles were already so specfiic that they were over-riding… Read more »
If you’re having problems getting the facebook login callback to fire – for example, you’re using one of the social plugins and are not getting redirected back to the right place on login – you might be looking to set the “Post-Authorize Redirect URL” – except, it’s not there any more! Facebook seems to read… Read more »
Console.log is great for debugging JS code with Firefox’s Firebug plugin. However leaving your console.log calls in the JS code will cause it to fail silently and mysteriously on Firefox without Firebug. After a morning of confusion on a recent project, we turned up this Heisenbergian gotcha. Here’s a full explanation.
OK totally quick post this. Was getting this error inexplicably in the console, couldn’t work out what was causing it, commented out all but the most simple lines of code….. Still there! If in doubt – check the version of jQuery you’re using and try upgrading it. Worked for me. Incidentally this had nothing to… Read more »
When creating a 3d environment with lots of movement, beware of InteractiveScene3DEvent. Im my scene i have a number of moving objects that have listeners that fire InteractiveScene3DEvent’s. Object_over and object_out, (the equivalents to mouse_over and mouse_out on a display object in 2D) will NOT RECEIVE those events if the mouse is kept still. Think… Read more »
May seem like a long winded title but i have been online looking for solutions to this and none seem to exist… so here we go… I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to fix this one… I’m using Dean Edwards’ IE7.js (http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ – best PNG fix out there i reckon….) alongside with Nick Stakenburg’s… Read more »
Another interesting thing which makes sense but isn’t necessarily obvious, for me at least, happened when I was trying to make a pause/resume function for an mp3 player:- var mysound:Sound = new Sound(); var channel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel(); var pauseposition:Number = 0; channel = sound.play(); //pause code channel.stop() pauseposition = channel.position; //resume code sound.play(pauseposition); This… Read more »
Me and Jeff headed over to Bradford in the freezing cold earlier this week for an ‘introduction to Maya’ training course run by the ‘WOW’ innovation technologies centre, which is part of Bradford college. The first day (which I didn’t attend but Jeff did) focussed on modelling and briefly touched on animation, the second day… Read more »