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House swap travel sites

The client brief for this House Swap Holidays was for it to feel Australian but not overly ‘ocker’ or stereotypical/cringeworthy. Virgin Blue was cited as a good starting point – a little bit cheeky but ‘modern’.

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Good Food Guides 2011

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Good Food Guides are the Michelin Guides of Australia. If you are into food then you have these on your shelf and consult them regularly. If you work in the restaurant industry then you await their publication each year with a sense of foreboding or giddy hope that [...]

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Hippo.com.au redesign

Hippo.com.au is a youth focused employment site that was launched in 2005. Like other players in the market it’s fortunes took a hit towards the end of 2008 as the GFC hit and many employers took a risk averse approach to hiring.

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Transferring WordPress sql data between localhost and production

There are quite a few blog posts around that provide helpful tips on transferring the sql data (all the posts and category content in the wordpress database) between your local development environment and production (live) site.

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Android CSS background image blurriness

Recently I completed some UI intensive work for a client that was designed for smart-phones. The project was targeted at iPhone and Android users primarily and being web based, made heavy use of CSS3 and HTML5 to achieve the desired highly graphical user interface. During the course of the project we noticed that some Android [...]

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Semantic HTML

After reviewing the folios of over 50 front end developers and working with quite a few, I’ve come to the conclusion that when it comes to semantic markup, most developers talk the talk but in reality have no clue what it means.

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Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace

I’m kidding really – there is no way you could find and replace your AS2 code into AS3 Actionscript 3 is hugely different from Actionscript 2, but that doesn’t meant that you can’t do a lot of the grunt work using a simple find and replace

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Flash site templates that work on iPhone (& iPad)

There has been a lot of discussion on the web in recent weeks because Apple’s offerings iPhone and iPad do not (and probably will not) run the Adobe Flash Player on their in-built Safari web browser.

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Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object

Continuing with my updating an Actionscript 2 project to Actionscript 3 I’m really enjoying the optimisation possibilities that AS3 provides.

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Actionscript 3: Inheritance Subclass and private vars

I’m currently updating some as2 projects to as3 and I had a series of 1120 compiler errors this afternoon. I’m a fan of using the ‘extends’ keyword to create customised versions of base classes. In Actionscript 2 the subclass can access all the variables and methods of the original class. It appears that in ActionScript [...]

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