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You know how sometimes you wake up and you have been sleeping on your arms and you have limited the blood supply? It feels like they are alseep, dead to the world, and then you have to flail about trying to sit up.

Since you have found this page you will know that jQuery mobile is an easy mobile development platform for creating WebApps for a variety of mobile phones. You can check out the development platform on the jQuery Mobile site.

I have used jQuery Mobile to develop a couple of projects, one for work and one just out of personal interest. The open day WebApp is by far the most developed and is currently 'out there'. The Food Review WebApp is really immature in comparison, mainly because I have lost interest but also because I have hit a few stumbling block along the way and my drive to complete the project does not match my laziness. Now the title of this post is 'Simple jQuery Mobile Site with Google Maps API V3' so you may be able to tell where some of the stumbling block have come from.......

While searching for information on how to create themes for Drupal I came across someone raving about and add-on for Firefox called Firebug.

This little tool has changed the way I look at the code for the website, right click Inspect Element and it will show you the coded section for the rendered page. This means I can right click on the site title or the menu and select Inspect Element and Firebug will pop up at the bottom of the page and skip to the appropriate bit of source code.

After learning how to add flash to my header I quickly became aware that having it load up in every page was going to become annoying and costly in my bandwidth. I needed a way of adding either a still image or a lighter flash banner to the header depending upon the part of the site you had navigated to. Now, since I am still creating section to the site and discovering new functionality, I needed a method of changing banners that would be flexible and have minimal impact on theme development.

I created a small and lightweight Flash AS3 XML reader so I thought I would share it with you. I have attached the Flash file, XML file and the CSS file. The code is commented to make editing it easier.

The messagesin the reader will change automatically via a timer, the text is imported through the XML file and styled using the CSS file.

Let me know what you think.

I have been looking at creating a way of displaying brochures for work and after seeing a 3D bookshelf somewhere on the internet I decided to create my own. I have attached the source files so feel free to use it to create your own. I have not used any of my own classes, it is all in one main FLA file, this is because I don't know how to create my own classses. If anyone can point me in the direction of a tutorial about classes and packages I would really appreciated. I just don't get it. It pulls the text from an external xml file and uses the css file to style the text. With a little modification you can also dynamically create the books from xml nodes. You should be able to do this without too much coding, it would just require a for loop and a loader to pull the image files from the xml.

So.... I have made a 'Word Clock' using Flash and Actionscript (AS3). A word clock is a typographic clock using words instead of numbers. I found this Mac screensaver by Simon Heys and thought I would make one in flash so that PC users can play with it too. It is not a fancy as Simon's but it does the job and you are free to customise it in any way you want. I am working on a Papervision version so that it is in 3d but since the weather is nice and I am not inclined to sit at a computer all day it will take a while. I have attached the fla and you can see the example below.

Refreshers are apparently a good source of calcium!!!!

It is a fact, my doctor told me that I needed to get more calcium into my diet and that Refreshers are a good source. Amazing.

I have not updated this site in a long while, I was busy with work and with my social life (drinking and playing football). Now that I have broken my ankle I have more time, I have decided to actually do something with this site.

First of let me start be telling you the story of my broken ankle.

Our story begins on Monday the 12th of April 2010. The day began as many days have begun, I got up for work, showered, dressed and rushed out of the house later than I would like. Monday was a football day, so I would take my kit with me to play after work.

Creating a flash banner for Drupal was actually the easy part, putting it into the theme with no knowledge of php wasn't.

The banner was made with Adobe Flash and uses the Papervison3D actionScript library to create the 3d effect rendering. Papervison3D is something I may go into in a later post when the website is finished.