http://www.blog.lessrain.com Lessrain Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Less Rain is looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and in-depth experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/senior-flash-developer-less-rain-berlin/ Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online. You ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-internet-case-study-book/ While developing an AIR project one of the most annoying problems we are having is the impossibility to intercept when a runtime exception is triggered in the installed AIR application. After Googling a bit we found a couple of interesting solutions provided by Xavi Beumala in his blog: Debugging production ready AIR ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/intercepting-runtime-errors-in-installed-air-applications/ The Problem: In Firefox 3.6 for Windows if you embed a Flash Movie with the wmode parameter in the object tag set as default (wmode="window") the mouse wheel event is not propagated correctly, instead it is captured automatically by the Flash movie making the scroll wheel not working properly. Common Example (youtube ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/another-firefox-picia/ Our friends at Brauchbarkeit have just released a new game on the AppStore called "Doppelgänger". It's a well made and challenging memory game, perfect for your casual gaming needs. Check it out at One more Games or on the AppStore http://www.blog.lessrain.com/iphone-game-doppelganger/ FireFox 3.6 draws one-pixel border aorund embedded SWF (also occurs with Java Applets) where the width and height is set to 100%, causing pointless scrollbars to appear. It seems to be a side effect of fixed usability problem which makes old bugs to appear. Solution 1: In about:config: Set browser.display.focus_ring_on_anything to true and set ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/firefox-36-draws-one-pixel-border/ After almost a year in development, we finally went live with www.costanavarino.com, and immediately got 'Site of the day' in www.thefwa.com. We have been working on the branding of this prime holiday destination since 2 years now, arguably the biggest branding exercise Less Rain had ever gone through. To this end ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/costa-navarino-is-live/ Vote now for your favourite website of the year, at the Favourite Website Awards. We hope it'll be our Red Bull Soapbox Racer! Update: The results are in. The FWA Website of the Year is "We choose the Moon", and "Labuat" won the People's Choice Award. Congratulations! http://www.blog.lessrain.com/fwa-website-of-the-year-award/ The Red Bull Soapbox Racer has been showered with awards this week. After winning gold twice at the Davey Awards, we've also won gold at the London International Awards in the Online Games category - ahead of Dentsu, Tribal DDB and Sapient. Soapbox Racer is currently also nominated at the ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/goooooooooold/ The Less Rain London office is now looking for a Full Time AS3 Developer to complete the team! You will be developing interactive environments in Actionscript 3.0, ranging from consumer & corporate websites to Rich Internet Applications. Here are some examples of the level of coding we expect: www.redbullsoapboxracer.com www.redbull.com/flightlab www.neoderma.com Your role involves working ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/as3-developer-to-join-less-rain/ Well the title says it all, our Red Bull Soapbox Racer won Gold in the Food and Beverages Category and Best in Show in the Events Category at this year's W3 Awards. http://www.blog.lessrain.com/red-bull-soapbox-racer-wins-gold-best-in-show-at-the-w3-awards/ Following our "shock and awe" presentation at the Flex User Group Berlin in August, we're invited to present the Red Bull Soap Box Racer at the Adobe Flex User Group in Hamburg on the 20th of October. Check the flexughh announcement for details. Thanks to Fabian and the flexughh for hosting ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-at-adobe-flex-user-group-hamburg/ There's a new feature in the Red Bull Soapbox Racer, that allows you to connect your Soapbox Racer account with your Facebook account. It allows for easy login as well as challenging your Facebook friends, sharing your cars, tracks and race results in your Facebook feed. Connect yourself on www.redbullsoapboxracer.com. http://www.blog.lessrain.com/soapbox-racer-adds-facebook-connect/ The Red Bull Soapbox Racer just got voted Website of the Month at The FWA, and is also Website of the Day at Adobe. http://www.blog.lessrain.com/red-bull-soapboxracer-is-site-of-the-day-month/ We'll be presenting our new favorite project (you guessed it - the Red Bull Soapbox Racer) at Flex Labs organized by the Adobe Flex User Group Berlin tonight. If you're in Berlin you should sign up to the User Group here From my own experience - it's not just about ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-at-flex-labs-berlin/ This week's edition is about overcoming this admin's lonesome summer. The bad news first: Unfortunately, the announced Scooby Doo interview has to be postponed due to an urgent surgery. Scoob is just getting a respiratory tract transplantation. Could this be a result of a long media carrier? I will ask him ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/admin%e2%80%99s-weekly-episode-2-routing-routines/ Red Bull Soapbox - kids of all ages in self-made cars, racing down a steep hill. An extremely popular event, held throughout the year across the globe. The cars are powered by gravity only, no engines allowed but all dreams and colors. And now it's online! All of it, the cars, ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/red-bull-soapbox-racer/ Being the company's only system administrator is not easy. Surely, you have the power to control each and every electron which is quite cool. This ultimate digital power on the one hand dooms you to be irreplaceable on the other hand. That's when lyrics like “Wouldn't it be nice ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/admins-weekly-episode-1-holiday-horror/ Google released the source code of the Apollo 11 mission - together with an emulator. On the first sight this may seem as yet another nerdish project, but it's much more than that. If you belong to the rare specie of Assembler programmers, you will have the unique chance to follow the ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/fly-me-to-the-moon/ Edgar Martins (portuguese photographer, grown up in Macau, China) creates interesting views on uninteresting scenes. We saw his exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal. Soon his work can be seen in Berlin (November 2009, at Caprice Horn Gallery). A must-see! ©photography by E.Martins Related links: Edgar Martins Caprice Horn Gallery http://www.blog.lessrain.com/when-light-casts-no-shadow/