AIR applications File and Directory

05/08/2008 09:12 am in ActionScript

In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial [...]

What Do Users Read / Hear? How Fast? How Much Do They Comprehend?

05/08/2008 09:08 am by Brooks Andrus in Misc

I was doing a bit of research into my typing speed (turns out I’m average) and the Wikipedia article yielded some surprising additional data. This data dovetails into a Jakob Nielsen article on how much text users read that one of the project managers at work, Blake Nyquist, pointed me to. And of course there’s Kathy [...]

Tutorial | What’s under the ground?

05/08/2008 09:00 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will look under the ground to find out what is hiding there. Read Tutorial

Man Crush Leads to Typing Test Addiction

05/08/2008 07:41 am by Brooks Andrus in Misc

I’ve got a bit of a man crush on Rands. I witnessed a very entertaining presentation he gave at SXSW and then was overwhelmed by the insight of his handbook and glossary. He seems to be seems to be a bigger geek, a better writer and funnier than me — your basic nightmare (it’s the [...]

Flex Deep Linking

05/08/2008 04:51 am by Dylan DePass in Flex

At the Ottawa Flex Usergroup tonight Zee Yang gave a great presentation on Deep Linking in Flex. He also made a post about it in his blog which examines Deep Linking with SWFAddress. He explains it quite well and also provides some sample code. Head over to Flexlive.net to learn more.

BEST. UI. EVAR.

05/08/2008 02:42 am in design

From a web application I recently used that shall remain nameless:

LIVE Degrafa Session Tomorrow

05/08/2008 02:07 am by ScaleNine Blog in degrafa

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a presentation on Degrafa at the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group (RMAUG). The user group is in Denver, CO, but if you can’t be there in person, the whole thing will be “broadcast live” via Adobe Connect. If you can’t make it at all I think it’s going to be recorded, [...]

Whoops. Cool Flex Typo at JavaOne 2008

05/08/2008 01:14 am in Flex

At JavaOne 2008 the daily edition of “JavaOne Today” features an interview with Sun’s Tor Norbye saying “Java and the Flex SDK are both open sourced. I hope they both benefit from community involvement at whatever level people choose to get involved.” Funny thing is that this is actually a quote from Chet Haase of [...]

Whoops. Cool Flex Typo at JavaOne 2008

05/08/2008 01:14 am in Flex

Students and Teachers - get Adobe Flex Builder Pro Free

05/07/2008 11:16 pm in Adobe AIR

Several weeks ago, Adobe announced that it was giving away Flex Builder Pro to students, faculty and staff of eligible educational institutions. Recently, I’ve met a several students and teachers that were not aware of the program so I thought I would do a quick post. So… here’s the deal. You can [...]

Tutorial | Design a Cool and Cleen Web Layout

05/07/2008 10:53 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in Interfaces

In this great tutorial, learn how to create a cool web design layout using some simple photoshop techniques. Read Tutorial and download support files

mxna good to go?

05/07/2008 09:34 pm by FlashApe in

mxna is now redirecting to http://feeds.adobe.com. It’s running pretty nice now, hopefully it stays this way.

Mate Flex Framework

05/07/2008 09:34 pm by FlashApe in

I just heard about the new Flex framework Mate (pronounced ma-tay) from asfusion. After spending some time going through their site I gotta say I am VERY impressed, both by the framework itself, and the documentation they have put together (considering how many times I’ve been let down by poor documentation in the past, [...]

Flash Nostalgia: 5K PONG

05/07/2008 09:33 pm by Quasimondo in

Searching for an old experiment of mine I just rediscovered a piece from 2001/2002 which I thought I had lost - it's a implementation of PONG in Flash 5 with a file size of 5K. Back then it was an submission for the 5K award - a site which featured some amazing entries all under 5K which is unfortunately not online anymore. There have been some impressive examples in recent time of PONG made in 510 bytes or even in 349 bytes - so 5k is not really world record anymore. On the other hand - this file is from

Check Out ColdBricks, A ColdFusion Based Open Source CMS

05/07/2008 09:09 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

ColdBricks is a ColdFusion based CMS and site generator, and it's free and open-source. There's a very impressive live demo online, too. This one via fellow evangelist Serge Jespers.

DekafLovers Featured as Mashup of the Day at ProgrammableWeb.

05/07/2008 08:04 pm by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Kuler

Many thanks to Darius and everyone at ColourLovers for making a great, easy to use API, also thanks to Juan Sanchez and the Degrafa team for making Degrafa the best way to draw in Flex. The DekafLovers mashup is currently featured at programmableweb.com as the mashup of the day and they have a nice writeup [...]

American Idol - the mix SUCKS

05/07/2008 08:03 pm by RockOnFlash \m/ :: John Grden in Flash

Ok, I’m a fan, I admit it. I was born and raised in SoCal and at a time was trying to make it in music in LA/OrangeCo - so there’s a soft spot for musicians/singers and we love watching the show. The thing that pisses me off is the mix - the past 2 weeks [...]

Preserving ColdFusion Structure Member Case In Flex

05/07/2008 06:48 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in ColdFusion

ColdFusion is case-insensitive, and Flex MXML and ActionScript is very case-sensitive. For consistency's sake, when ColdFusion variables are sent from ColdFusion to the Flash Player via Flash Remoting, names are converted to uppercase (that's the default behavior, and it can be changed if needed). So, a structure member named FirstName will be named FIRSTNAME when it arrives on the Flash Player (and referring to it as FirstName in MXML or ActionScript won't work). But, you actually can force case to be maintained in structures, depending on how structure members are defined. Look at these two examples. The first won't preserve case:

In this example, if the structure were returned to the Flash Player, the members would be named FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME. Here's another example, one that will indeed preserve case:

This example accomplishes the exact same result as the previous example, in that it creates a structure and defines two members. But in this example, structure member names will be preserved, and they would indeed be named FirstName and LastName when they arrive in the Flash Player.

Setting Up Papervision3D in Eclipse/FDT3

05/07/2008 06:00 pm by EVOLVE in Papervision3D

I've recently decided to take the plunge and start playing around a bit with Papervision3D. I've seen too many cool things coming out of that camp and I wanted to get my hands down and dirty and experimenting with the possibilities to move my work forward. I use Eclipse/FDT3 on a Mac so [...]

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AIR applications File and Directory

What Do Users Read / Hear? How Fast? How Much Do They Comprehend?

Tutorial | What’s under the ground?

Man Crush Leads to Typing Test Addiction

Flex Deep Linking

BEST. UI. EVAR.

LIVE Degrafa Session Tomorrow

Whoops. Cool Flex Typo at JavaOne 2008

Whoops. Cool Flex Typo at JavaOne 2008

Students and Teachers - get Adobe Flex Builder Pro Free

Tutorial | Design a Cool and Cleen Web Layout

mxna good to go?

Mate Flex Framework

Flash Nostalgia: 5K PONG

Check Out ColdBricks, A ColdFusion Based Open Source CMS

DekafLovers Featured as Mashup of the Day at ProgrammableWeb.

American Idol - the mix SUCKS

Preserving ColdFusion Structure Member Case In Flex

Setting Up Papervision3D in Eclipse/FDT3

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