WordPress empty P in shortcode issue

January 26, 2012 by fMajakovskij

Are you trying to find the definitive solution to the annoying empty html paragraph tag in shortcode generated html? Maybe this post is for you…

Simple Banner Rotator with JQuery tutorial

November 10, 2011 by fMajakovskij

JQuery

In this tutorial we will see how it is easy create a basic banner rotator with JQuery library.

We are making maybe the simplest rotator out there.
So let’s get started.

Conditional check for active sidebar in WordPress

October 31, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Wordpress

After a lot of search on how to get is_active_sidebar() works, here the tip that just works.

If you need to check whether a particular sidebar is active (means has at least one widget registered) you should put on your theme the following code:

XMLDisplayManager 004

February 7, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Snippets

Here a quick update of the XMLDisplayManager with the addition of a couple of useful methods.
This update could be an excuse because there is also a first draft of a front-end, which could be named XMLDisplayViewer.

Check if an xml attribute exists

February 2, 2011 by fMajakovskij

Snippets

This is the best method I found so far to check is an xml attribute exists and have some value set.

Replace DisplayObject with another one

by fMajakovskij

Snippets

Sometimes there is the necessity to replace a DisplayObject with another one, preserving the matrix transformation. This is useful when you design some UI elements in Flash authoring as placeholder and want to replace it with another, more complex, object.

Flash XML Gallery from scratch – part 2

January 2, 2010 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Flash

Here the second part of the tutorial about the creation of an XML Flash Gallery.
Now we’ll see how to load all the images and place them on the stage….

Flash XML Gallery from scratch – part 1

December 22, 2009 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript, Flash

This is the first of a series of quick posts on how to create, step by step, from scratch a xml flash gallery.

The first thing you need to do is to create the xml file.
Just open a simple text editor and write down some tags…

WordPress XML-RPC and Actionscript 3.0

December 14, 2009 by fMajakovskij

ActionScript

A while ago I stumbled upon this nice ActionScript 3.0 library to work with the Wordpress XML-RPC calls.
It does extends the more abstract XML-RPC AS3 library brought from Akeem Philbert.

I did decide to give it a try…

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Adobe Air: add NativeMenuItem to existing NativeMenu

December 2, 2009 by fMajakovskij

Air

If you want to add just a single (or more) NativeMenuItem on the your existing NativeMenu, you can do it without recreate all the NativeMenu structure.

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