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I am a 22 year old web developer and musician from Romania. I love php,jquery,flash,as3 and lose 80% of my nights with them. I also have a lot of business ideas that I never get to build. I like to build lots of websites.

Creating a Bandwidth Tester for Loading Video in Flash With AS3

Creating a Bandwidth Tester for Loading Video in Flash With AS3

Sebastian Bratu on Apr 12th 2011 with 4 comments

In web development and media content serving you often need a way to make sure the user has a smooth viewing experience. For users with little bandwidth and slow internet connections you need to serve a smaller video than for somebody on a T1 connection. This tutorial will teach you how to detect a user’s bandwidth and serve him the appropriate Flash video. We’ll be building an interface similar to the YouTube quality selector, while learning a bit about using custom events and reusable classes.

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How to Create a Flash Menu in 20 Minutes

How to Create a Flash Menu in 20 Minutes

Sebastian Bratu on Apr 9th 2010 with 37 comments

Imagine you’ve promised your client he will have that menu idea you told him about later on today, when you meet. You open up Flash and begin a rough but great example, which you can code or extend later. During this tut we’ll focus on making just such a menu; as customizable as possible, without using any classes, just component parameters.

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Create a Super Modern Elastic Menu in AS3

Create a Super Modern Elastic Menu in AS3

Sebastian Bratu on Dec 7th 2009 with 53 comments

Sometimes you just want to be very modern about your website. And how better to show people how cool you are as a flash programmer than to make them experience it themselves? In this tutorial I will show you how to create a modern menu with spring-like buttons. We’ll even make it customizable from xml!

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Creating a Reusable Flash Uploader with ActionScript 3.0 and PHP

Sebastian Bratu on Oct 7th 2009 with 62 comments

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to build a Flash uploader for uploading files from the user’s computer. The result will be ideal for large file sizes as it will display a progress bar and the percentage left to upload. We’ll even show the user the number of bytes uploaded per second.

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