http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog Øyvind Nordhagen's blog Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:26:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The other day I was writing the code for a simple animated movie. I decided to use a host flash to get the user started quickly and then create a separate SWF file for each scene in the movie. The host flash would then preload the next scene while the ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/04/30/loaded-swf-doesnt-run-its-code-no-errors-wft/ Paulo and Tink were right after all; FOTB wasn't sold out. The tickets page was just not updated from last year and I've got me a ticket. Yeah!ShareThis http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/04/24/flash-on-the-beach-wasnt-sold-out-after-all/ I checked the FOTB site about a week ago and it seems I might have misunderstood the message there about ticket sales not being open. Or maybe tickets were in fact not yet for sale at that point. Either way, those tickets must have been ripped away pretty fast and ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/04/03/flash-on-the-beach-already-sold-out/ Just when all was going so well winter draws one hell of a dying breath and I get a cold. So I'm stuck in an empty house watching it snow outside with my nose running so bad I keep leaving slime tracks all over the house like a garden snail. ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/03/25/winter-rebound/   Grab a beer, It's St. Patric's Day. In the words of House of Pain: Put on your shit kickers and kick some shit! If anyone's wondering why I've been a slow poster  lately, it's because my basement home cinema is looking like this: I'll be back when that is done with :-)ShareThis http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/03/17/happy-st-patrics/ A really interesting project I've been doing at work is finally live after a little over a month in design and development. I am quite pleased with the result as it is a fully dynamic (with content management system on the way) all Flash, language extendable solution. The language menu has ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/02/06/masterphotono-launched/ I just browsed through Microsoft's download pages to find a .NET Framework install needed for FlashDevelop when I came across this page asking me if I would like to try their shiny new Silverlight-boosted download area. Of course I was curious, so I happily OK'ed the installation link for the ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/01/28/microsoft-silverlight-light-em-up/ Creating Flash content that fills the entire browser window right up to the chrome is nothing new. Normally it is accomplished by setting the swf's width and height to 100% in the object and embed tags and controlling how different elements respond to resizing with ActionScript within the Flash Movie. ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/01/08/flash-javascript-resizer-fill-the-browser-window-without-cropping/ If you play Call Of Duty 4 on PlayStation 3 (like me), chances are you've spent some time waiting to be connected to an online game. Infinity Ward who created the game blame your internet router for not having the correct ports opened. While this post says that you will ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2008/01/04/call-of-duty-4-ps3-port-opening-forwarding-for-airport/ My son wanted so desperately to wish you all a happy new year, so here he is, posing with my hat and all :-) Aron turned 6 months on december 27. He's full of smiles and really interesting language interpretations. He's just about to begin crawling around. He also wishes to ... http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2007/12/30/happy-new-year-from-aron/