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LinkTogether – A Community for Web Designers

Ryan Stemkoski — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:24:35 +0000

First, I would like to welcome all my new subscribers. I have been getting an abnormally large amount of traffic the last few days and I have also seen a big increase in RSS subscriptions so if you’re new around here, welcome!

Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web developer community called LinkTogether. I am of course leery of any community developed by a corporation, especially one that is so closely tied to their target audience. That being said, I am a sucker for anything that is targeted at web developers and designers so I had to check it out.

After an hour of investigation I have to say I am intrigued. The majority of LinkTogether is made up of already common tools like forums, tutorials, and a developer community. What makes it different is it has some other fantastic resources for web developers like a list of pre-developed legal documents, white papers, and downloadable tools and applications. In addition, they have LinkTogether Challenges where developers can win money for their applications. I didn’t have much time to explore the challenges section but it seemed like an interesting concept.

Overall, I thought this was an interesting community that offers some great free tools for small web development firms. From a usability standpoint there are some changes I would make, particularly the way they force your password format. It will be interesting to see how this community develops, and what caliber of web professionals you will be able to find here. At this stage, it is still a little weak from a content standpoint but I think it is worth monitoring for awhile to see how it grows. If you sign-up and try it out leave me a comment to let me know what you think.

Check it out: http://www.linktogether.com

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Future of Web Apps – London 2008 – Videos

Ryan Stemkoski — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:45:14 +0000

I finally got around to listening to this weeks BoagWorld. This week Paul talked about the Future of Web Apps conference in London. The FOWA conference is a great conference that I would really have liked to attend but since it was in London it was a little too far away for me. I believe there is an upcoming FOWA conference in Miami but I doubt I will make that either. Don’t worry though. Nearly all of the presentations from the London FOWA have been posted online in high quality video. I hope they’re able to do this again for the Miami conference for those of us that are unable to attend. I also hope they use this strategy for other conferences like FOWD. I highly recommend anyone that does anything related to web development or social media check out some of these presentations:

FOWA London – http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content

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Using mailto in Flash with Actionscript 3.0

Ryan Stemkoski — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:24:13 +0000

Generally I try to not to use mailto links under any circumstance because many users particularly non business users do not have a default email service and it becomes difficult or impossible for those users to utilize these links. In addition, I don’t like to subject myself or my customers to email hunters. That being said, if I customer demands an email link I will provide it. Today I was asked to add one to a Flash file programmed using Actionscript 3.0.

It was pretty easy…. here is the code we used:

//SET THE MAILTO ADDRESS
var emailLink:String = "mailto:email@address.com";
 
//ADD EVENT LISTENER FOR EMAIL LINK
mailtoLink.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,function():void {
     navigateToURL(new URLRequest(emailLink), "_blank");}
);

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