02
Dec
2009
Flex 3 & the FIVe3D Library
benreed

This posts is aimed at helping other people interested in using the FIVe3D Flash 3D Engine in Flex. I spent a good few hours trying to figure out why all the tutorials I was following were not working, so hopefully this post will help anyone in the same boat. I only managed to figure this out by diving into the Flex 3 Language Reference and swearing a lot!

30
Nov
2009
Adventures in CSS3
benreed

While giving my site a facelift (which isn't quite finished yet I know) I thought I would have a little play with CSS3 to see what could be done and I have to say I am impressed and frustrated in equal measure at the moment.

Those of you viewing this site in a proper browser (you know who you are), will notice the flickr gallery to the right has some nice effects applied to it, ok its not much but I thought I would start small and I have to say that the resulting effect is pretty cool considering all I did was add 4 lines of code:

-moz-box-shadow:6px 1px 10px #888888;
18
Nov
2009
Organic Poster Design
benreed

No its not a new, clever design technique or web fad, just the subject of my latest piece of graphic design. I got to flex my creative muscles over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it!

16
Nov
2009
Replacing a broken fan in an Acer Aspire A150 Netbook
benreed

My little A150 was a great buy when I picked it up a few months back, £150 from Currys Digital as it was an ex display model - which would probably explain the fact that the fan needed to be replaced! Every time I turned it on the noise was ridiculous, I had to turn it on and off in the hope that next time I started it up it would be quiet.

16
Nov
2009
Adding Unity3D to your Drupal site
benreed

A few months back I decided I would write a module that handled the uploading and display of Unity3D players to Drupal based sites. I must admit I haven't spent long on this since I came up against some pretty tricky file upload issues, on top of that I have been attempting to buy a flat for what seems like forever, so development on this has come to a bit of a stand still.

05
Nov
2009
Styling jQuery plugins... you're doing it wrong!
benreed

I love jQuery, it's an amazingly powerful tool but there is one thing that always infuriates me whenever I come to installing a new plugin - inline styles!

Yesterday I spent the day adding a Simple Gallery photo gallery to a clients site. All went surprisingly well considering the site and the gallery was plugged in successfully, the last thing I had to fix was the fact that all the images appeared to be left aligned and I wanted them centered to avoid a nasty black border.

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