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These days here in Comtaste, I'm very busy for a consulting activity to support a project for an Adobe's Italy partner (I'm under NDA so I can't do names), working on a enterprise desktop AIR application (that uses Java, Oracle Form and Hibernate). The project is a porting of an ActionScript 3/J2EE web application, so what we're doing is to write ActionScript 3 classes to add AIR desktop functionalities.
One of the frustrations of being busy with client work is the lack of time to investigate, experiment and play with interesting stuff. One day I'll have time to try all this stuff but until then, here's a simple list of the flash/flex tools I'd like to play with. Maybe you'll find something interesting here...
Issue 404 is the key to getting OpenID working on Google App Engine but currently it only has 10 stars.
Please star Issue 404 if you want OpenID support on Google App Engine.
(Please add a star, _not_ a "me too" comment which will get emailed to everyone who has starred the issue and may cause [...]
Google has released videos from the Google IO conference.
(For some strange reason, you need to log in with your Google account to something called Google Sites in order to see the page.)
There’s a new test build of Snackr, v0.35, up on Google Code. This should fix a major bug I introduced in v0.34, where collapsing the ticker sometimes caused it to permanently freeze until restart. It also adds much better support for non-Western language feeds (in particular, feeds with encodings other than UTF-8). If you had [...]
I am getting really lazy with my picture taking! This is the only decent photo (of the total four that I took) and it still sucks. Blurry and poorly cropped and poorly lit. Sigh. I will fix this slackery soon, I promise.
Dave put on a fantastic conference. This was my first Flashbelt and it was [...]
I love Python's doctests. Basically, you test out your functions in the interactive shell and copy the results into the comments for a function. That's it! So simple.
Example:
def http_request(self, url, data, method=urlfetch.POST):
"""
Makes an API call to Triggermail and returns the response.
>>> client = TriggerMail()
>>> client.http_request('email', {'email':'aral {at} aralbalkan(.)com
var mailNode = [...]
It’s Saturday morning and I’m watching the NBA playoffs. The game cuts to a commercial break and I see a spot which shows golf superstar, Tiger Woods, dressed in a spacesuit and hitting golf balls from space. I wonder, “What’s it like to hit a golf ball in outerspace?”
Well, my question has been answered…sort of. Creative [...]
The techniques used in this tutorial are scalable. It’s easy to turn the final design into different sizes to fit various monitors.
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You don’t have to be an obsessive Coldplay fan like me to admire the beautiful effects shown in the latest Coldplay / Apple ad. This tutorial will show how to design portraits based on that style.
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Firefox 3 has been considered an unofficial RIA platform candidate, based on what it can do and can be programmed to do. It’ll be out on June 17th. Here are some of the new features:
Updated address bar with integrated bookmarking functionality
Standard themes that are consistent with the native UI of your Operating System (Windows, Mac, [...]
Last week I spent a few hours with Dick Wall of the Java Posse working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an [...]
This the newest tutorial at The Tech Labs, this time by Jack Herrington, who have wrote several popular books, where you learn how to create a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite [...]
YouTube’s mixed easy movie access with community uploads to create a startling new service. The online problem is that you can only access YouTube when you are online. How can you access those movies when you are offline? Let’s solve that problem by building a downloader with Flex and AIR.
In this article we will build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite YouTube videos with you wherever you go.
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I’m working on a demo voor Astro/FP10. Now I followed the steps to install the new Flex SDK with the FP10 library. Check this article its showing how to install the new SDK.
Everwhere I look on the internet I see some example of rotating a sprite on the x,y and z-axis. No problem at all. [...]
FunFX is an test framework for functional testing of Flex applications. It’s open-source and leverages Ruby for writing testcases. I haven’t given it a try yet but I thought I would blog about it as it looks like a great resource for creating Automated testcases.
The framework is the result of a master thesis at the Norwegian University [...]
Another trick is to retrace the steps in history: HTML before Flash. Build a HTML website first. Wait for it to be ranked high in the search engine, and then add flash to the website.
It is recommended to use static text in Flash. This avoids a possibility that you may be flagged by spam-identification techniques [...]
FotoViewr is a great application for browsing through your Flickr or Facebook photos in a slick 3D interface. It’s very easy to use and beautifully designed so your pictures look stunning, specially in full screen.
Make your photos come to life with FotoViewr. Display them in this unique interactive 3D experience. FotoViewr is a great way [...]
FotoViewr is a great application for browsing through your Flickr or Facebook photos in a slick 3D interface. It’s very easy to use and beautifully designed so your pictures look stunning, specially in full screen.
Make your photos come to life with FotoViewr. Display them in this unique interactive 3D experience. FotoViewr is a great way [...]
I find the PopUpButton to be a very useful component, and I think it is underrated. Thus it is rarely used by developers/designers.
A PopUpButton can open any UIComponent by a simple click of a button, it saves the developer the hassle of dealing with the PopUpManager and locating the pop-up at the exact point to [...]
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