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Implementing Flash with JavaScript

If you’ve ever worked with Flash and HTML (and who hasn’t?), we’ve all come to a point where we need to embed a Flash movie into an HTML page. This is usually the same point where you cringe, especially if you need to validate your HTML/XHTML (and you should!). Embedding Flash can result in an ugly mess of code like this one:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
   codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
   width="550" height="400" id="Untitled-1" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="mymovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550"
   height="400" name="mymovie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
   type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

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Written by: Justin Kozuch | Posted: Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript | Tagged with ,

Ignite at Refresh Events

Back in our January 22nd newsletter, we announced an exciting change in the way we are going to be organizing and executing our meetups. While we would still be featuring a guest speaker, we would also be providing entrepreneurs, designers, developers and others in the interactive industry with a time slot to speak about a project they have worked on, a product they have created, or a topic they are passionate about.

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Written by: Refresh Events | Posted: Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Category: Development, Events | Tagged with , ,

Stay Fresh - WordPress Conditional Tags

If you are like us, you probably want to exert a fair amount of control over your website; after all, it is an important part of your personal (or corporate) brand and deserves an equally fair amount of care and attention.

With that in mind, we searched for a solution to our problem: We wanted better control over our title and meta tags for SEO purposes. We were hesitant to use a plugin, because we felt that could be a more efficient way of handling such a small but important change. We quickly discovered that WordPress has a series of functions called Conditional Tags.

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Written by: Justin Kozuch | Posted: Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Category: Development, PHP, Stay Fresh, WordPress | Tagged with , ,

Stay Fresh - The jQuery Edition

Welcome to our first edition of Stay Fresh. Every day we will be posting content about a design or development topic. Sometimes, it will be about social media, creative strategy, or a product review. Either way, count on us to deliver something new and interesting everyday.

With that said, our first edition of Stay Fresh will cover jQuery. The latest version of this popular JavaScript framework is 1.3, which was just released on January 14th 2009. (Incidentally, the new version was released 3 years to the day of the first version of jQuery). The new version of jQuery has many new improvements, which we will cover today.

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Written by: Justin Kozuch | Posted: Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Category: Development, Stay Fresh, jQuery | Tagged with ,

StayFresh05: Cameron Westland and Eugene Andruszczenko

Refresh Events is proud to present Cameron Westland (http://www.bigbangtechnology.com) and Eugene Andruszczenko (http://32teeth.org) to our first event of 2009. The topic of the evening will be an analysis of Prototype and jQuery, two increasingly popular JavaScript frameworks. Cameron and Eugene will perform deep-dives into Prototype and jQuery (respectively) and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using each language. The goal is not to see which one emerges as the “better language”, but instead to promote the concept of the right tool for the job.

Our next event will be held at 7pm on February 18th 2009, venue TBA.

*UPDATE: Our next meetup will be held at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400. Please visit the event page for more information and to register.*

*UPDATE: Help us promote this event! Download the PDF poster (750KB).*

*UPDATE: Presentation decks are now available online.*

Written by: Justin Kozuch | Posted: Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Category: Events, jQuery | Tagged with , ,