http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog Knowledge is Power. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:14:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to a CNET news article, more teenagers than ever before (aged 16-19) are starting businesses.   When faced with the prospect of competing with 30-40 years for entry-level jobs, many have decided to start their own home-based ventures. It's really true that young people these days really believe that ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2009/06/28/teenage-entrepreneurship-at-an-all-time-high/ One of the major complaints surrounding the use of Flash, is the necessity of having the plug-in installed on a system.  This presents a problem for designers and content providers who are authoring content in Flash.  How can you make sure that content is viewed by as many users as ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2009/06/20/flash-usability-providing-alternate-content/ For Immediate Release San Francisco, California - February 19, 2009 Heaven Interactive is pleased to announce that it is now offering custom WordPress installations for publishers, marketers, and on-line retailers.  These packages will allow clients to have custom-designed, fully-editable websites containing both static and dynamic web pages, such as blog and news ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2009/02/18/heaven-interactive-now-offering-wordpress-cms-packages/ Affiliate Marketing, or 'Performance Marketing' generally refers to the practice of affiliates (often called publishers) sending new customers to a business (often termed an advertiser) through website links or other methods of referrals. In exchange for these direct referrals, affiliates are usually given a percentage (often 4% to as high ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/12/11/a-brief-introduction-to-affiliate-marketing/ My SQL knowledge is fairly basic.  I am an interactive designer, not a strict low-level coder, so I am looking for solutions that do not require cryptic or highly detailed SQL, when I want to access a DB system. If you want to access the WP MySQL database tables, you can ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/09/25/select-posts-within-a-wordpress-category-in-mysql/ I searched the web for around 30 minutes looking for a script that allowed me to use MCrypt with PHP and actually see the decoded string. Check out this very thorough (well-written and commented) script. Works like a charm. http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/08/18/a-php-mcrypt-script-that-allows-you-to-see-the-decoded-string-eureka/ Yes the blog header, when included in other pages (non-wordpress pages) can REALLY slow down your page loading. However, the problem was not what I thought it was -- the system querying the database for the WP configuration information, and then subsequently executing my own scripts. It always seemed just ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/05/27/wordpress-blog-header-slowness-problem-fix/ I am pretty much addicted to WordPress. It is simply my favorite development platform. It's open source, it's PHP and MySQL, and things just work out of the box. Well. If you are running live WordPress installations, you may come to a point where you need to make ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/04/16/making-a-copy-of-a-wordpress-installation-for-development-purposes/ I'm really enamored with my virtual dedicated server account with GoDaddy.com. It's pretty invaluable and really makes my life much easier as a developer and a content producer. Interactive websites really need a core back-end that's flexible and can do what you want / need, without requiring phone ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/04/04/the-merits-of-a-virtual-dedicated-server-and-why-you-might-need-one/ In AS3, loading external images dynamically is done slightly differently than in ActionScript 2. Whereas in AS2, we could just use the loadMovie() method of the MovieClip class, this is no longer the case. (Download the files for this tutorial. You will also need: Flash CS3. Download Trial or Buy ... http://www.heaveninteractive.com/weblog/2008/03/28/loading-an-external-jpg-png-or-gif-file-in-actionscript-30/