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How To Create a Slideshow Using Flex and ActionScript

Written by Jon Karna on June 29, 2009 — 9 Comments

During the last couple weeks, I have been teaching myself Flex, ActionScript 3, and some traditional Flash whenever I have some spare time.  I recently grew tired of learning at such a slow pace, so I made up my mind to shake things up by creating my own project.  I created my own Slideshow using Flex. Read more »

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How To Use Search Engine Safe Urls With Mach-II

Written by Jon Karna on June 23, 2009 — 2 Comments

Search Engine Safe (SES) urls are increasing in demand, especially by SEO departments across the board.  They look better and supposedly increase search engine optimization.  Since my company upgraded to version 1.5 of Mach-II, we were able to use their built in SES url functionality. Read more »

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Coldfusion Pageable Array

Written by Jon Karna on June 16, 2009 — Leave a Comment

This class works just like the Coldfusion Pageable Query class that I created previously, with the exception that you obviously feed in an array rather than a query.  I enjoy having this class for encapsulating logic, retreiving specific pages of the array, and having functions that help with the creation of pagination markup. Read more »

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How To Setup Google Custom Search on Wordpress

Written by Jon Karna on June 8, 2009 — 1 Comment

Replacing default wordpress search with Google Custom Search can be done pretty easily.  However, in my case, it was a bumpy road.  The main issue was having the search results hosted on my blog instead of directing the results to a google search results page. Read more »

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100% Height and 100% Width Flash Embed with jQuery and swfObject

Written by Jon Karna on June 2, 2009 — 3 Comments

You would think that creating full browser flash, 100% height and 100% width, would be easy.  However, from recent experience, I’ve realized the pains of making the flash embed do what I intend it to do.  This article will help anyone who is struggling with a full browser flash embed. Read more »

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