Webby, One Show, D&AD and Shots

To my delight the work we’ve done at Stink Digital continues to be recognised within the industry this year.

This article from Shots places both Carousel (aka Philips Cinema 21:9) and A hundred lovers for Diesel in their top 20 digital campaigns.

Meanwhile Carousel was a Webby Awards winner. It also picked up Gold and Silver at the One Show Interactive awards. And if that wasn’t enough, it got nominated at the 2010 D&AD awards, although sadly no pencil this time.

Handling ‘Load Never Completed’ IOErrorEvent

This is a potentially annoying error that occurs in Safari/Chrome when you hit refresh or close a tab containing Flash content. If you have the debug player you see:

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

It can crash Safari or, in the case of Chrome, show a ‘broken plugin’ screen, shutting down every instance of Flash Player in the process.

Fortunately the fix is easy. To handle it you must add an IOErrorEvent listener to every Loader instance in your project, including the ‘root’ Loader (i.e. the class that is the base of your main SWF).

To handle the main SWF simply add the following code to your base class. In ‘onIOError’ you can handle the error silently should you wish.

root.loaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);

Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer Magazine asked if I’d like to contribute to a ‘Top 50 Professional Flash Tips’ feature for issue 160. I decided to big up the mighty PureMVC and a little tool I’ve been using recently called Thunderbolt that logs stuff in the Firebug console.

I’m in .NET Magazine!

Following the success of our Carousel site for Philips, we were asked to write a feature on the build for .NET Magazine. I contributed a tutorial on the basics of building a localisable Flash site, which was not project-specific, hadn’t been covered before and seemed about the right level for the audience. Even got my picture in there – fame at last! …well, not really, but was nice anyway