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	<title>Not What You Respected: new media webSites for the digital age.</title>
	<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com</link>
	<description>Solving the challenges faced when making media driven webSites.</description>
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		<title>Flash Tutorial : Custom CellRenderer and the List Component.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Flash developers dealing with components like the DataGrid or the List component eventually run into the design limitations in Flash 8. We need a solution to load images into the grid or list. There are many solutions out there but 2 are most known.
1. HTML CellRenderer
2. Sephiroth Image CellRenderer
Each of these solution are great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-tutorial-custom-cellrenderer-and-the-list-component</link>
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		<title>Flash Tutorial : TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just some quick information on something I found today. When loading multiple SWFs into a main SWF there are some important issues to consider, especially with library assets. 
A breakdown of my situation: I had had a textfield on the main stage of my main movie. I was loading a menu into a loader object [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-tutorial-typeerror-error-2007-parameter-child-must-be-non-null</link>
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		<title>Flash Tutorial : Dragging and Bitmap drawing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been working on a Logo creating application. We will be releasing it this month, until then I cannot post a link. Part of the task was to move some items around on the stage and then take a &#8216;photo&#8217; of them, photo being a bitmap. In the application itself this process was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-tutorial-dragging-and-bitmap-drawing</link>
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		<title>Flash Cloaking : Google friendly Flash websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading on Google&#8217;s Webmaster&#8217;s Blog. It was very interesting to see these 3 &#8216;no-nos&#8217; of building a Google friendly Flash website.
1. No Cloaking! 
Cloaking refers to the hiding of content behind a fake wall, be it Javascript or PHP or something along those lines. Now, at nothingGrinder we use a Javascript plugin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-cloaking-google-friendly-flash-websites</link>
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		<title>Flash Tutorial : Flash Menu in ActionScript 3.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite websites, Nike Skateboarding, has a great navigation system. The floating menu has been around for a long time, in both flash and javascript. It is nothing new. But the thing that really grabbed me was the rollovers. A very simple drop shadow used so effectively. Very nice work.
After seeing this, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-tutorial-flash-menu-in-actionscript-30</link>
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		<title>Flash Tutorial: Shared Libraries and Japanese Fonts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have been working on a new project for a Japanese client.
We are building a system to create and edit personal and professional logos. The tricky part of this application is the fonts. Usually , in English, a font weighs anywhere from 10k to 60k. In Japanese you are looking at about 3mb to 9mb per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-and-japanese-fonts</link>
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		<title>Amazon Web Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has a robust API and many Web Services which are open to the public. This means developers can take advantage of Amazon services directly from their own applications.
The AMS service is for Merchants who want to connect with Amazon&#8217;s main database and utilize the affiliate services. Merchants can add Amazon products directly on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/amazon-web-services</link>
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		<title>Flash Remoting and the Flash IDE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been working on a new Flash project. As always I&#8217;m using AMFPHP and Flash NetConnection to access the database and some backend services. Flash remoting, for me and many others, has always been a very robust solution to dealing with external data retrieval in Flash. From the moment I read about it, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-remoting-and-the-flash-ide</link>
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		<title>Flash Optimization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash is a difficult tool to use when trying to create an accessible website. Accessibility reqiures careful attention to the way content relates to everything else in the webSite. Content is not available to the web browser via Flash. The content in the Flash movie is usually encapsulated and closed to the world of SEO. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/flash-optimization</link>
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