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Crafting Code & Wood: A Maker’s Journey

  • Pulling in mp3 library folder

    So I have a client who wanted to have mp3’s that the user could listen to and also download. Since I’m very against having to constantly manage a clients content I wanted him to be able to have no problem adding and removing mp3 files. Normally, one might have an xml file that the user […]

  • Embedding htmlText in your TextArea control

    So I’m currently working on my first mxml project at work (I’ve done other stuff but not at work so they were much less involved). I realized a little in to the project that using the TextArea control can be a bit of a pain the ass at times. Namely, I couldn’t find a way […]

  • Flash CS4

    It’s been a while since my last post. Right now I’m at my weekly nerd meeting (flashcodersny) and Colin Smith is going over Adobe Flash CS4. Holy crap it’s awesome! Soooo many various things I can’t even begin to describe. From 3d to things similar to soemthing akin to Poser. But it’s kind of limited. […]

  • Reading…

    So it’s been a little while since my last post. I’ve been quite busy dealing with work and random visitors into my home. Lately I’ve been working with flex and contrary to my previous belief, I don’t think it’s so bad. Though I still feel a bit limited it does seem to cut down on […]

  • mmmm tasty ANT

    So I’m currently in a flashCodersNY meeting and today’s topic is ANT. Wow! I’ve messed with ANT slightly in java but oh you can do some sweet stuff with ANT and Flex deploying to a server. Will try and update later…

  • Adobe site of the day!

    So the recent site I worked on is on Adobe’s site of the day. W00t. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm And finally someone said stuff about my map! Sheesh. lol. The only thing I’m not liking is the shameless plugs they try to do. They say the site was created in flash(!?!) and dreamWeaver? Who even touches dreamweaver these […]

  • Image loading with security sandbox fun.

    Just a note in case anyone runs into this. Loading an image from an external domain without a crossdomain.xml file can be tricky. typically I want to just grab the content of the loader and use it to be referenced for whatever. But in this case, when loading from an external domain that doesn’t have […]

  • What the Heck are Runtime Shared Libraries?

    So keeping in the topic from my previous post of low overhead flash apps, I decided to talk a little bit about runtime shared libraries. So what are Runtime Shared Libraries? These are libraries that are used just like you normally use your libraries in Flex 3 but instead of storing them within the swf, […]

  • XMLSyndication

    So Last week I did a presentation on the adobe xmlsyndication package and the use of css within an as3 environment sans mxml at the flashcodersny meeting. I think all in all it turned out pretty good but there were a few issues I noticed. The first being the dependancy on the adobe corelib package […]

  • A quick note.

    I was trying to determine a way to sort an array without all the for loops and that sort of business when I ran across this post Granted it’s a little specific to what you want to sort but I’m sure with a little change you could sort based on the function call maybe. I […]

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