Archive for 'Technology and Science'
Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3
Posted on23. Feb, 2010 by lukesh.
Recently, I was tasked with building a quick AS3 project outside of our normal Flex framework projects. It was refreshing to just write a plain and simple AS3 project outside of the team environment where I could explore a few things without impacting the team by breaking our current project standards. One thing I’ve been [...]
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Rawr! FlexGrowl Component Available
Posted on04. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
Want to growl in your Flex apps? Try this junk. FlexGrowl is a component that allows you to create growl-like notifications in your Flex apps
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HydraMVC 0.1.3 Released
Posted on01. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
…And it seems to be the magic number for now. I’ve been using this version for a while and it seems stable and complete enough to actually use f’real. If you don’t know what it is, click here to read about it and get it. Besides all the obvious goals for HydraMVC (read about them [...]
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AdeptivMVC
Posted on03. Mar, 2009 by lukesh.
Basically, you know those times where if you have to trip over that creaky stair *one more time* you’re going to go totally ape and remodel the entire downstairs? That’s exactly what happened.
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Very Important Limitations of Generated Flex Data Classes
Posted on24. Nov, 2008 by lukesh.
You will need to know this at some point if you are interacting with SOAP in Flex, I guarantee it. ISSUE #1: Types registered in SchemaTypeRegistry may overlap across different services. Description: You have a UserService and a RoleService. Methods for both services return an ArrayOfString. This type is generated by Flex when you import [...]
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PandoraBoy + Airfoil = All My Musical Dreams Come True
Posted on24. Oct, 2008 by lukesh.
Step 1: Download PandoraBoy (http://code.google.com/p/pandoraboy/) Step 2: Download Airfoil (purchase for $25) (http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/) Step 3: Enjoy Pandora over iTunes remote speakers while keeping all other sounds local.
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Network Drives on Mac OSX
Posted on12. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
A few people here have only recently switched to Mac as their primary computing platform. People generally find most things to be easier and more pleasant to use on a Mac. However, there is frequently a point of confusion for a Windows user when they try to find their “network drives,” or mapped network shares [...]
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Mediator strategy in PureMVC
Posted on12. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
If you aren’t using an MVC framework like Cairngorm, Model-Glue, Guasax, or PureMVC for your Flex development, you really should think about starting. Our adoption of PureMVC at andCulture has allowed us to structure our ideas around a concrete paradigm and move on to arguing about more important things. I’ve implemented PureMVC in both Flash [...]
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Policy file changes for Flash Player 9.0.124.0 strict security
Posted on10. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
Adobe has enhanced the security policy in Flash Player 9.0.115 and 9.0.124 that may cause some issues if you’re interacting with Web Services. Typically when I start a Flex project, I just throw a simple, open crossdomain.xml file on the root of the service site (or elsewhere) and go to town (which is poor practice to [...]
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Flash Export to Video Framerate Woes
Posted on08. Apr, 2008 by lukesh.
Ok, you’ve created a 30,000-frame animation that needs to be deployed to the web as an animation and to DVD as a movie. (Don’t judge me. Seriously.) Anyway, you’ve done this, and you’ve got all your scenes exported and whatever and the website looks great. On to the DVD production. Let’s see, just export an [...]
