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USA Euro-invasion countdown begins

Post FOTB is usually a very sad time of year for me. Such a great group of friends from all around the world flock to Brighton for an amazing couple of weeks of fun. And when they leave, I can’t help but feel somewhat deflated. But not this year! Because on Friday (tomorrow!) I’m starting […]

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Big and Small finalists in Adobe Max awards!

Did I mention it before? I think I mentioned it 🙂 I really do hate to ask, but if you like Big and Small, please take the time to vote for us in the Adobe Max awards.

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Spam robots attack…

Robot attack by flickr.com/donsolo Some of you may have noticed some pretty dodgy things happening on this website. Unfortunately I’ve been the target of some particularly unpleasant spam robots that hacked one of the wordpress sites on my server and started injecting invisible links everywhere. I can’t apologise enough – I’m extremely embarrassed. I’ve now […]

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Flash on the Beach – my schedule

It’s next week! NEXT WEEK! The most exciting digitally creative speakers will be descending on my home town to the 4 day inspiration-fest that is Flash on the Beach.So I thought I’d take a look at the schedule and let you know who I’m planning to watch. Except John has totally screwed me over by […]

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Big and Small in .net magazine

Just in case you missed it, there’s a 3 page article in this month’s .net magazine all about how we made Big and Small. I’m so pleased that we’re starting to get some recognition for this site : we’ve just earned our very first FWA Site of the day award, and we’re also a finalist […]

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Simple 3D in HTML5 canvas

On Saturday at BarCampBrighton4 I explained the basics of 3D rendering using the simple HTML5 canvas drawing API. As promised here are the files : //demos.seblee.me/canvas3d/canvas3d1.html //demos.seblee.me/canvas3d/canvas3d2.html //demos.seblee.me/canvas3d/canvas3d3.html //demos.seblee.me/canvas3d/canvas3d4.html I’ve been meaning to do a screen cast of this for a while, so please let me know if it’s something you’d be interested in and […]

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Japanese version of this blog now live

Welcome to my Japanese friends! Or should I say… ようこそ, 日本のみなさん!:-) Thanks to Taka and the Japanese support team, this blog is now being translated into Japanese! You can find it at sebleedelisle.jp [Update japanese version sadly no longer available – Taka just didn’t have the time to maintain it].

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Papervision3D training in New York City!

I’m really excited to be visiting New York again as part of my upcoming mini tour of the USA (encompassing MAX and FlashPitt). And with the help of my good friend Lisa Larson-Kelley, I’ve set up a day of Papervision training at the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology. I’ll be showing you the quickest way […]

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How we made it : iwillpayyourparkingticket

Here’s a video of my presentation from £5app a couple of weeks ago. And I’m sorry about the weird camera angle! And Jamie Matthews, who helped me build the site, talks about it here. The project is open source and built with Django, and you can follow (or even fork it) here! (be kind to […]

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Font embedding WTF in Flash

I’m sorry if this is old news, but I was absolutely horrified to realise today that if you have to embed fonts in every single dynamic TextField on the stage, even if they are all using the same font! I don’t know about you but I really hate when things don’t work as they should […]