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About Ryan Warner
My name is Ryan and I have been with iSTORM since the summer of 2007. Web development is my passion and is something I was doing long before it was my profession; as a teenager I maintained several fan websites. At St. Lawrence College I studied Information Systems to gain a better understanding of the back-end systems that support the internet.
Twitter: @ryantwarner
PSN: RTWarner
Building an ActionScript 3 MP3 Player
I hadn’t much experience working with Flash, so when the opportunity to do something interesting with Flash ActionScript presented itself I leapt upon it. The Great Unwashed, a funk band from Kingston, needed a site built and asked iSTORM for help. A large portion of the project involved building a Flash MP3 player so visitors could preview the band’s music.
I struggled with concepts I was not familiar with when I first got started. I had no idea that you need to load a sound object into a channel object, and then use a transform object to control the volume. Initially I loaded all of the sound…
Posted in Technology, Web Development
Tagged ActionScript 3, AS3, MP3 Player, The Great Unwashed
Tablet Computer Renaissance
In 2003 I bought a Compaq TC1000, one of the first slate style tablet computers. At the time Microsoft was pushing a version of Windows XP that featured an onscreen keyboard. The primary input method of these early tablet computers was a stylus which was fantastic for software like Autodesk Sketchbook; a stylus is not ideal for text input so Microsoft bundled hand writing recognition with its virtual keyboard. Unfortunately handwriting recognition is notoriously unreliable and I didn’t find it particularly useful.
Apple launched the iPhone a short while after I started at iSTORM. I was quite skeptical at the time, having never been an Apple or…
Posted in Technology
Tagged android, nook color, slate, tablet, webkit
Web Tool Suite
During the course of a day I work on a wide variety of things. Over the years I have accumulated a preferred tool set that I would like to share. Some of these tools simplify my work while others I would be unable to work with. Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged development, html, web tools
