http://www.richardgarside.co.uk Richard's projects is a blog about what I'm doing at the moment to amuse myself. en-gb Copyright 2007 Mon, 22 May 2007 00:08:20 +0000 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:36:18 +0000 http://www.garsonix.co.uk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A List Apart have started doing a yearly survey of web professionals. I read their report last year but I missed my chance to answer the survey. This year I've been quicker of the mark and answered the 18 pages of questions. So, if you wo http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/8/8/web-professional-survey.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/8/8/web-professional-survey.aspx Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:13:04 GMT My last project has been my most high profile since I went freelance. So, I'm excited to announce that it went live this week. The website in question is the new Oxfam International site. I was working with Fortune Cookie , DGF Solutions an http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/7/5/the-new-oxfam-website.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/7/5/the-new-oxfam-website.aspx Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:53:27 GMT They say the future is mobile. I don't think this is going to be true till the data rates become affordable, but perhaps the large touch screen of the iPhone is a taste of things to come. So, I'm quite excited to learn about developing for this http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/6/26/developing-for-the-iphone-what-you-need-to-know.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/6/26/developing-for-the-iphone-what-you-need-to-know.aspx Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:06:59 GMT I've never previously had any problems with my site designs working in Safari. So, I was really stumped recently when a site I'm working on looked very wrong in Safari. I'd got used to the power of Firebug and the web developer toolbar, and I was l http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/6/6/you-can-debug-in-safari.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/6/6/you-can-debug-in-safari.aspx Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:26:04 GMT I created this simple app recently to print out all the tables in an SQL Server database. It shows each table's name, description and information about all its columns. I mainly use it when I start on a new project that has an existing databa http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/2/27/dbprint.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/2/27/dbprint.aspx Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:56:12 GMT I was getting the following error while developing my doodle flash application using ActionScript 3.0: 1502 A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. I tracked the problem down to a piece of code that loop http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/1/6/actionscript-xml-timeout.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2008/1/6/actionscript-xml-timeout.aspx Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:00:02 GMT This is my latest creation using Flash and ActionScript 3. You can draw a lovely doodle on one of your Flickr photos and then save it and send it to your friends. It started as a simple doodle program, but I thought adding Flickr photos woul http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/12/22/draw-doodles-on-flickr-photo.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/12/22/draw-doodles-on-flickr-photo.aspx Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:36:09 GMT I've been making an animated button using a MovieClip in Flash using ActionScript 3. The problem I had was making the hand cursor appear over it, firstly at all and then when my button had text in it. To make a MovieClip behave like a button and http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/12/7/getting-the-cursor-hand-to-appear-over-movieclips-containing-text-in-flash.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/12/7/getting-the-cursor-hand-to-appear-over-movieclips-containing-text-in-flash.aspx Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:50:09 GMT This Flickr viewer uses Flash CS3, ActionScript 3 and the Flickr API to display public photos from a selected user's Flickr account. I've created it because I've got a few project ideas where you will need to select a photo from Flickr. I've bee http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/11/16/flash-flickr-viewer.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/11/16/flash-flickr-viewer.aspx Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:07:10 GMT Adobe has been running round the country doing lots of workshops. Their campus tour is aimed at students and university staff, but I was lucky enough to be invited by a member of staff. I went to three 45 minute workshops about different Adobe pro http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/10/29/what-i-learn-at-leeds-adobe-campus-tour.aspx http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/post/2007/10/29/what-i-learn-at-leeds-adobe-campus-tour.aspx Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:15:38 GMT