Author Archive for Jolyon
The Value Object Pattern
0 Comments Published by admin January 29th, 2008 in Flash Platform, TutorialsI been trying to explain to a friend how to use Value Objects to describe data, after a google search returned nothing more than an ancient DevNet article by Branden Hall, I figured I’d better write a quick example.
So the first thing I do is fire up FlexBuilder and create a new project, source […]
Flex 3, AIR, FlashPlayer, Safari for PC and Leapard!
0 Comments Published by admin June 12th, 2007 in Flash Platform, AppleDid I miss anything?
It seem like the last few days have been jam packed with tons of exciting stuff.
First from Adobe we have Flex Builder 3 hitting labs.adobe.com there are lots of cool additions to the working environment, some new components, even more integration with Flash custom components, full AIR integration, the ability to hot […]
This is kinda cool, it’s just a shame the browser doesn’t have the Opera rendering engine because the layout is all over the place.
It's been a really long time since I used the IDE but a big project I'm working on at the moment calls for it. I wished that I could hit a button and compile all my open Fla's.
Thankfully I've been here before, with a little JSFL you can publish all the open documents:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
var num [...]
Removing svn meta data with the Terminal
0 Comments Published by admin May 15th, 2007 in UncategorizedSo I had a framework directory that I copied from one project to another, tried to commit and it kept erroring saying it was already committed.
A coworker said there was an easy way to clean all the meta data off using Terminal.
/usr/local/bin/svn export [the name of the folder you want to clean] [the name of [...]
"On completion of the video (i.e. at the end) the initial default state will re-occur."
I had a 115 page document dropped on my desk, I've not read a lot of technical documents in my time, in fact this is probably my first "proper" one. From what I can tell they're a barrel of laughs for [...]
PC World: “Users Take Sides in Flash-Silverlight Clash”
0 Comments Published by admin May 1st, 2007 in Flash Platform, RantsA key quote from the article,
"A developer who said he had limited experience with Flash also sided with Silverlight. "I just think the integration with .Net is going to be big. I'm a .Net developer. It allows me to jump in [to] Silverlight a lot easier,"
But, but, but, but...
Of course he'd say that, he's a [...]
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So I signed up for hosting with Dreamhost a while ago, they came recommended from a couple of friends. They work out very cheap for what you get, one of the downsides is that it's shared hosting another is that they don't host co.uk domains.
As a freelancer if you're hosting a lot of little sites [...]
Apollo makes the tintrnet possible
0 Comments Published by admin April 19th, 2007 in Flash Platform, TutorialsWhen I first saw the demos of Apollo and the HTML element with it's ability to be manipulated as if it's a MovieClip an idea popped into my mind.
It's taken a while for me to get the time and inclination to play with Apollo, Mike Downey's talk at LFPUG on Tuesday was enough of a [...]
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