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Flash interactives for The Guardian

John Coumbe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:32:58 +0000

In the last 12 months, I worked with The Guardian on a number of FLASH interactives for guardian.co.uk.

My involvement was creating class based Actionscript code, and integrating XML, for these interactives :

European election results map http://bit.ly/11ciq1
Taxation diagram http://bit.ly/jKDV
Britain’s Iraq war dead http://bit.ly/9TYci
The internet at 40 http://bit.ly/4a1zFQ

Display List, packages, E4X, Event Model ..

John Coumbe — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:30:19 +0000

This is a course outline that I delivered at Harlequin Solutions, the London Adobe training provider. It covers a number of the new concepts, introduced into the current version of Flash, including the Display List, packages, E4X, the DOM Event Model.

Guardian Unlimited Flash Podcast Player

John Coumbe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:57:53 +0000

I have just done a couple of weeks at The Guardian in Farringdon, developing a Flash/Actionscript PODCAST player for their website. This prototype has not yet gone live on their site.

Training Example : Introduction to Actionscript Classes

John Coumbe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:27:36 +0000

This game is a training example to introduce object oriented (OO) classes in AS 2.0. The idea is to click on the spinning balls, to keep them within the 2 lines.

Flash Training example : XML parsing

John Coumbe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:25:55 +0000

This was an example that I developed for Flash training courses, that I deliver for clients and training companies, to introduce XML parsing in Actionscript.

Rich Media Flash MicroSite

John Coumbe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:23:39 +0000

I worked with digital agency Positive Image to create this rich media micro site for printer manufacturer OKI Printing Solutions.Flash 8, Actionscript 2, XML, Flash video .FLV

XML Crossword for Oxford University Press

John Coumbe — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:21:45 +0000

This is a set of interactive word games (crosswords, wordsearch) that I created for Oxford University Press (OUP) in Actionscript 2.Flash 8, Actionscript 2, XML