In this tutorial, we will demonstrate methods of saving the content of a HTML5 Canvas object using server side scripting. PHP will be used in this example, but the technique can be applied in other languages as well. This post requires understanding of Javascript, HTML (especially forms and/or AJAX). PHP is used in the example […]

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First, get the Facebook code that you’d like to use. There are several variations described here: https://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/10/adding-facebook-like-widget-button-to-your-web-pages/ An example code is shown below (depending on which options you chose, the code may look slightly different: The section to pay attention to is This contains the URL to ‘like,’ and we will modify the value depending […]

Using modules enhances scalability (i.e.: your application code does not have to reside in one swf, which quite possibly will grow very large as features are being added).  In this tutorial, we explores how to create and load a Module in a Flex Builder Action Script project. Create an Example Project Create a new Action […]

The is a popular feature of Facebook that have been implemented by many websites.  The widget increases traffic and helps to publicize your stuff.  The Facebook official documentation about how to do this is here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like. In general, the process is fairly simple. Requirement – You should have a Facebook account (this is actually optional […]

Using FileReference, you can allow user to upload files from their computer to be used. This can be useful in applications such as photo processing applications, image manipulation applications, etc. For more information, see: https://www.permadi.com/blog/2009/05/actionscript-3-using-file-reference-to-load-local-swf/ Here’s the general outline of the steps required to load a file from user’s computer. Note that these steps require […]

WebM is the new media-container format announced by Google during the Google I/O conference this year. For a broad overview of WebM, see this post: https://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/05/webm-overview/ WebM is based on MKV (Matroska) container format, which uses EBML structure to store informations, tagging and organizing data in hierachial tree-like structure.  EBML is a basically binary version […]