Yahoo! GeoPlanet API makes backwards-incompatible change, keeps it secret?

06/28/2008 10:03 pm by Aral Balkan in APIs

I just noticed that the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API made an API change to its JSON API that breaks existing apps. (I noticed because it broke the sign-up process for the new Singularity teaser site.) Googling around, I couldn't find any announcements from Yahoo! about this. I don't know if there's a notification feed somewhere that I'm [...]

Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0806d

06/28/2008 03:35 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Programming Tips

Skin Flex with Flex 3 and CS3 - The reason you are doing Flex is not because you can’t resist the appealing of ActionScript, over Java, C# and all sorts of languages, or even Flex Builder. It’s because Flex offers you the sky as the limit to express your creativity. If you are a visual [...]

Some flexcoders stats

06/28/2008 03:11 am by Doug McCune in flexcoders

I’ve recently compiled a fairly complete database of all the messages ever sent to the flexcoders mailing list. I’ll be posting the sqlite database file that you can load into your own AIR applications to start playing with this data. But before anything else I thought I’d post a few fun tidbits: Top 10 Posters Poster # Messages # [...]

Can’t Apple and Adobe Just Get Along?

06/27/2008 11:37 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flash

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong: Adobe Systems Inc. felt the sting of the iPhone in March when Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs dismissed a cellphone version of Adobe’s flash media player as not fit for the iPhone. Ever since, an [...]

Gates Through Rose Colored Glasses

06/27/2008 10:33 pm by Brooks Andrus in Misc

I call bullshit. These are unprovable assertions based on purely imaginative history. The web has proven that cooperation and standards can emerge from billions of diverse voices. If anything TCP/IP probably had as much to do with where we’re at today as anything. Computers were just expensive word processors until the Web emerged. Most of [...]

Source | Programatically Drawing Trees With Recursion

06/27/2008 08:11 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

Great example by “Grant Skinner”, showing how to create tree by using recursive algorithms. The source is also available for download. Read full article and download source

Saving Encrypted Data in AIR

06/27/2008 07:56 pm by Daniel Dura in AIR

Have you ever wanted to store a users password, you know, that little checkbox that says 'Save Password' on any login form. Or maybe you just want to persist a session token or other information. You could use the Local Shared Objects or even the File API, but that isn't very secure. How do you [...]

Tutorials | Developing, Extending and Styling Flex Components

06/27/2008 07:18 pm by Flash Enabled Blog in AS3

Do you want to create your own flex component? Or you simply don’t like the style of the component you need to use, or even there are some features you would like to have in your actual component? The following 5 tutorials will show how to achieve these goals. Developing Flex Components This tutorial aims to teach [...]

Here’s a Quick Way to Flashing out a Laugh

06/27/2008 05:28 pm by Flex RIA United in Fun

It’s Friday (for some of us). As expected, we are all in the Friday mood. How about a quick laugh to end this week and enjoy the weekend. Just need watch this Flash piece. Turn on your speaker. Or click here.

RIAJobs Launched Today

06/27/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Startups

With RIA jobs on the rise, it is about time for RIA developes to have an exclusive job site. Peter Elst, a renowned adobe community expert, launched RIAJobs.org today. The job board which calls itself “the web 2.0 repository” has a simple look. It has openings listed under eight categories: AIR, Ajax, Flash, Flex, Google Gears, [...]

My Blog has been hacked

06/27/2008 04:13 pm by FF9900.org in Whatever

Hi everyone. Sorry for all the spam that’s been showing up on my blog lately. Somehow a spammer has managed to be able to publish my drafts (like the Test one seen earlier today) and add a ton of links to student loan crap. I will be upgrading to the latest wordpress and changing my [...]

Enjoy the Adobe MAX 2008 Experience

06/27/2008 03:45 pm by Brajeshwar in Adobe

MAX is an experience unlike any other-- an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives, and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community.

Using the EncryptedLocalStore to encrypt data on the client with AIR

06/27/2008 03:39 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

Another very important and delicate aspect of desktop applications, but not only, is the one regarding data encryption. Encryption is the process of transforming data by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing a key. Adobe AIR has an EncryptedLocalStore class that allows to encrypt data to store it on the client’s machine. Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore APIs use DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) on Windows and the Keychain on Mac.

ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library

06/27/2008 02:00 pm in 3D

Today I found a new 3D engine: AS3 ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library. It is great from what I could see from their demos. Interesting is this demo where you can add more and more object to the animation but the animation is not jerky. The library at this moment is not released but Masayuki Kido [...]

On online security and password policies

06/27/2008 12:41 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Writing the post on del.icio.us's password policy got me thinking about passwords and online security again. Having a strong password policy such as "passwords must be longer than six characters and must contain a number or a symbol and a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is great in theory but let's take a moment to [...]

Two ways to change your business’s name on PayPal…

06/27/2008 11:55 am by Aral Balkan in General

First way: Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success. Second way: Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]

AlternativaPlayer

06/27/2008 11:26 am by Alternativa Platform blog in Flash

Let us present you prototype of a new service, which lets you to convert 3D-scenes into Alternativa3D engine format. Scenes may be viewed using chosen camera controller type, and you can post a links to scene on other sites. Precess is quite easy — you upload scene file, set paths to all used textures, ajust some viewing parameters, and get flash-module ready to be used by others. At this moment AlternativaPlayer imports scenes in 3ds-format, and we’re planning to support more popular formats soon. Looking forward for your comments and suggestions at this forum thread. AlternativaPlayer

Alternativa3D 5.0.2 update

06/27/2008 10:47 am by Alternativa Platform blog in Flash

There is the Alternativa3D 5.0.2 update on the site. Changelog: Renamed Mesh methods: addVertex -> createVertex addFace -> createFace addSurface -> createSurface addAllFacesToSurface -> moveAllFacesToSurface Face property num renamed to verticesCount Added an ability to exclude objects from collision detection in CameraController (collisionIgnoreSet) Added an ability to handle camera movement start and stop in CameraController (onStartMoving, onStopMoving) Optimized polygons sorting during BSP-building Optimized operation sorting (signals sistem) Added singular mapping check for faces Bugs fixed in 3DS files loader (TD-1063, TD-1073, TD-1074, TD-1083) Corrected geosphere mapping near poles Fixed bug in TextureMaterial cloning (precision didn’t copy) Corrected some documentation errors

Alternativa3D 5.2.0 update

06/27/2008 10:47 am by Alternativa Platform blog in Flash

There is the Alternativa3D 5.2.0 update on the site. Changelog: Renamed Mesh methods: addVertex -> createVertex addFace -> createFace addSurface -> createSurface addAllFacesToSurface -> moveAllFacesToSurface Face property num renamed to verticesCount Added an ability to exclude objects from collision detection in CameraController (collisionIgnoreSet) Added an ability to handle camera movement start and stop in CameraController (onStartMoving, onStopMoving) Optimized polygons sorting during BSP-building Optimized operation sorting (signals system) Added singular mapping check for faces Bugs fixed in 3DS files loader (TD-1063, TD-1073, TD-1074, TD-1083) Fixed bug in TextureMaterial cloning (precision didn’t copy) Corrected some documentation errors

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06/27/2008 04:46 am by FF9900.org in Whatever

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