Aurora Borealis in ActionScript
Posted on 01. Dec, 2008 by lukesh.
This weekend I threw together an algo to generate Aurora for a holiday ecard. I was really happy with the outcome. You can see the card here.
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Very Important Limitations of Generated Flex Data Classes
Posted on 24. 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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I've Found My Twin
Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by lukesh.
So, I’ve been trying to cook up some decent blog content in the middle of writing this Flex platform, but the need to actually complete the project trumps writing about it… However, I’ve managed to stumble upon my west-coast twin. I’ve even used his wp blog template for a while.
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PandoraBoy + Airfoil = All My Musical Dreams Come True
Posted on 24. 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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Zoning into Productivity
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by lukesh.
Just a quick observation of how important it is to me that in order to achieve and maintain focus, I need to reduce my “sphere of awareness” as small as possible. I picture an imaginary bubble around me, and whether I like it or not, my mind is background-monitoring everything within that bubble. The larger [...]
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In defense of AS3
Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by lukesh.
As someone who has worked with Flash since FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia, and as someone with both a design / animation and programming background, I agree with Adobe’s decision to go with a more structured implementation of ActionScript in Flash with AS3. I believe it is a strategic move to position Flash as a [...]
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Network Drives on Mac OSX
Posted on 12. 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 on 12. 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 on 10. 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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Charles is awesome.
Posted on 02. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
We’ve been using this for a while now, and I’d just like to tell the internets that Charles is awesome. I would definitely recommend it.
