A friend of mine was having issues with parsing an xml file using E4X today. We were trying parsing an XML file generated by a webservice and for all he tried, the nodes were completely inaccessible to his code. Viewing the XML in Firefox didn’t give any clues and everything should have worked. I have [...]
I am surprised this isn’t talked about more in the blogosphere. The only reason I got to this was because a couple of my Flash applications broke this weekend and it took a lot of digging by quite a few of us on my team before we got to the root of the problem. So [...]
I have been looking for a way to easily get bitmaps of segments of images for a while now but never really found anything. I needed this for example in my last Papervision3d example where I wanted to slice an image and use the slices individually as textures on different surfaces. Since I happened to [...]
I am so excited, I better post this before I pass out . Christophe Coenraets just announced on his blog that Adobe just open sourced the Flash/Flex Remoting and Messaging services under the name BlazeDS. What does this mean? Well remember all those multi-user real-time applications that Adobe demoed selling their Flex Data Services? Well [...]
I have finally finished my Digg Treemap application. The application is called DiggGraphr (couldnt call it DiggMapper since everyone expected a yahoo map to come up at some time). Anyway here it is in all its glory. The application was developed in Flex since I am porting my treemap classes to Flex right now. However [...]
As some of you, who wandered over to Gabo’s blog recently may know, Gabo is trying to create a flash UI for WordPress. I gave me a peek earlier this week and all I can say is its gonna be awesome. Of course his one requirement was getting the data out of WP in XML [...]
OMG OMG OMG. We WON!!! The Fan won the People’s choice award from among 60 other applications. I gave a stuttering speech when I accepted the orange arrow. Of course most of the kudos go to the design and the interaction gurus but I’d like to think development has had something to do with it [...]
Am at the Flash Forward Conference at Austin. Has been fun so far even though I am really tired. I attended a few useful sessions so far one of which I am not allowed to speak about . I think the most educational session has been the one on the Flex component life-cycle by Chafic [...]
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.
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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