About me – Shane Johnson
Originally from a fine art background, it took me a while to get in to the world of digital media, but now that I have, Flash has become my tool of choice. For the last 3 years I have been working as a freelance flash designer / developer and I now work as a Rich Internet Applications Developer for a well know communications company and strive to create engaging and creative applications for the web.
This site has become a medium for me to share my experiences and what I have learned with other flash and actionscript enthusiasts, in the hope that maybe what I have to show may help others in their working lives.
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Flash based XML Comments without a mySql database.
Whilst working on a project recently I discovered an excellent and fun way to add a custom comments page, without the need to have a sometimes costly mySql database. The file is totally driven by XML and the data, once submitted by the user is rewritten by a small PHP script. It is very light [...]