Archive | August, 2006

Neat flash widget

Karl pointed me out to the widgetbox site and I have to say I was impressed. Its awesome. AAAand I found this cool widget…well its too big for a widget but love the design anyways.

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Stripes and Gradients

One of the designs I am working on has a truckload of stripes over color gradients on different elements throughout the application. Now I could either have custom graphics for the elements embedded in the fla or do the more fun thing and write a class that drew stripes for me. So here it is. [...]

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Blogging from FlexSeminar, NY

Well, here I am, or rather have been for the last 5 hours, at the Roosevelt hotel, attending the Real World Flex Seminar.. Whats it been like? demos….loooots of demos. And thats exactly what I came for. Seeing some of the apps that adobe has developed has been pretty interesting. Some interesting apps I have [...]

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Static methods vs. Singletons

For the last 2 years, I have been working on a number of very intense projects that involved a truckload of AS2 code (I cant imagine ever doing it in AS1). As of today, the framework is pretty extensive with enough functionality to make the day-to-day stuff a breeze. However, there is always room for [...]

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Off to NY for the Real World Flex Seminar

Whew. The approval came just in time. I am off to the Real World Flex Seminar in NY on the 14th. While I have attended enough Adobe pitches on Flex 2 , I am more interested in how other industries are percieving it. Probably the most interesting session would be the one that talks about [...]

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..and a cupful of serverside configuration goodness…

Debugging isnt fun…. But it does have its moments, when you feel you have learnt something new.Like today…. First let me step back a bit and explain ip-domain mapping using host files on Windows. The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory (cache) at startup, [...]

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