Easy ActionScript Chain Events
Ok, so this week I have been playing around with events and building all kinds of useless applications... and all while trying to further ...
View ArticleMigrating From FLEX 3 to FLEX 4: FlexGlobals.topLevelApplica
Today I cam across an interesting problem while working with the new Flex 4 SDK. I kept getting the following error.Warning: 'applicat...
View ArticlePassing Serialized Arrays Between PHP Pages
Passing arrays between pages can be a useful thing to know, particularly when you feel data is a little too long to stick inside a url and...
View ArticleUse the Flex Framework with the Least MXML Possible
Using the Flex Framework is great tool to have if you know what you're doing. Sadly, not everyone has the time to put in the extra man hou...
View ArticleSharedObject - Flash Cookies
For anyone making applications using ActionScript 3.0, SharedObject is an absolute must! It allows data to be stored inside the flash play...
View ArticleUsing AMFPHP Is Not As Difficult As It Seems
AMFPHP is great if you want to connect to a database, mainly because the data you send is converted to binary making it's probably the f...
View ArticleAn exciting day... (Objective-C: not for the faint of heart)
Today is an exciting day. I received an email from Adobe saying that the new Flash Builder 4 is just on the horizon and I have received ...
View ArticleMy Top 10 Mac Apps
As you may have guess I love Mac. As a programmer, I don't always appreciate everything apple turns out, but I believe that Apple supplies s...
View ArticleRemoving Duplicates from Arrays in AS3
Of late, I haven't been posting much on here because I am a little bogged down with work right now. I'm working on a few projects at the...
View ArticleTrace Statements with the FLEX SDK
This is a topic I have long since intended to write about, but never got round to it. Well, anyway... trace statements in flex/flash are s...
View Article" No transcoder registered for mimetype 'text/fxg' " Error
Well, this has really bugged me for a while now... I've been using an older version of the Flex 4 SDK until recently and have never had this...
View ArticleLoading Fonts at Runtime with latest Flex 4 SDK
I wrote a post a while back about loading fonts at runtime. Nothing there has really changed, but I did want to clarify one thing on here....
View ArticleSequal Pro - Impressive!
I've been working a lot in PHP lately and almost always to connect to a mySQL database. I'm used to working in Terminal and the command ...
View ArticleSmoothing Loaded Images in AS3
Today, there I was, sitting at my desk working hard on a project involving loading images into a ActionScript constructed galler...
View ArticleNo such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock
I've been playing around with a little Ruby on Rails recently and while trying to connect to my MAMP development databases, I came across th...
View ArticleFirebug-like Capabilities in Safari Browser
For a while now I have been using Firefox because.. well it's simply brilliant. However I always have found that it sometimes moves like a...
View ArticleFix for jQuery Ajax and json_encode problem
I came across something that really interested and surprised me today. There I was coding happily for one of my latest projects in which I...
View ArticleTumble Bee - my first iPhone app!
'Tumble Bee' has been on the iTunes store for a few weeks now, but I'm am only just now getting round to posting about it here. ...
View ArticleBuild iPhone applications using the Adobe iPhone Packager
For the longest time now, many ActionScript developers have dreamt of using their skills to build iPhone applications, without having ...
View ArticleInterview with Ansca about Tumble Bee
Just wanted to post a quick link here and say thank you to the guys at Ansca for giving me the opportunity to be interviewed about my iPho...
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