Friday, December 28, 2007

Tubular Talent

Neal Hamil Agency is featured in H Texas' December Issue. We set up a method to allow the Agency to easily leverage Youtube's streaming video services and Google's directory to publicize their company and models from their website and created a showcase subsite nealhamil.tv.


Tubular Talent
Agency takes models off the paper and onto the screen

From hospitals to television stations, most industries are vying to stay at the forefront of Internet technology for their services and products. Now, you can add models to that list.

The Neal Hamil Agency is using services offered by the popular online video source YouTube.com...more

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Happy Holidays!

Warm wishes and happy holidays to everyone! In celebration of the holiday season, our office will be closed Christmas Eve & Day with limited hours for the remainder of the week. We will also be closed New Years Eve & Day with normal hours resuming the following day.

Friday, December 14, 2007

PBK

Our latest website has been launched! PBK is an award-winning Houston-based architectural firm dedicated exclusively to the planning, design and overall development of educational facilities. You can view the site here.



Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Kenzo Sushi Bistro

We were invited to attend the soft opening "private party" of Kenzo Sushi Bistro last night. The place is simply awesome. Charlie Cho and Jimmy Park, the owners, did a fantastic job with the decor and chose a really great location for the restaurant. The staff is friendly and very attentive. The chefs are fast and talented. We sat at the bar and enjoyed a great show of sushi mastery. The fish was super fresh with generous portions and dessert included mochi flown in from Honolulu, the same place Nobu get his from.

Located in the LaCenterra. complex in Katy, the place should draw in a steady crowd of hip CNKs (couple no kids) and daters.

DC designed the logo, business cards, and we are looking forward to working on the website.

#@!? Flash

If you work with Flash, I'm sure the title is rather appropriate. I've managed to find a couple of solutions to common and very aggravating bugs/issues related to Flash CS2 and 3. By no means do I consider myself an "expert", but I manage well.

1. Flvs won't work when running off server. - you need to have the .flv mime-type set on your server. If you're in a shared environment,you'll have to ask your host. Instructions are a variety of sites. Just search for "flv mime-type" and maybe your server type.

2. Swf files play, flvs don't show up. Mime-type is set already. Works locally, and when in subfolder, not when uploaded. Chances are you're organized and stuck your flvs, swfs, and code files in separate folders. For some reason, flash doesn't like this. It wants everything in the same folder which the original swf file was called, including the js file that is used to call it. When I'm doubt, put everything in one place.

If anyone can shed some light on these bugs, feel free to comment. We'll all be better off.