April 2008

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• Flash, Web

  rojo!

  04.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Further to my last post about the current lack of MXNA, I discovered Rojo, an online feed reader that uses the “river of news” format. You can import OPML also. I now have a virtual MXNA, based on the OPML files uploaded by Mike Chambers. It doesn’t have the categorisation or the features, but it [...]

• Flash

  mxna is still down

  04.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  At the time of writing, MXNA is still down. Mike Chambers of Adobe has put the OPML files up, though. I am trying to figure out if there’s a feed aggregator that works in a similar way to MXNA (except that it should actually work, of course) out there, until they get it back on [...]

• International

  protestors “anti-china”?

  04.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Reading an article just now in the Observer, I read: “His comments came after yet another leg of the Olympic torch relay was disrupted by anti-China protesters yesterday”.
  So people using the occasion of the Olympics to protest against the repression of the Tibetan people are “anti-China”? I have not protested (unfortunately the torch passes through [...]

• AS3, Flash, xml

  marshalling as3 from xsd, continued

  04.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I have been thinking some more following my earlier post about how good it would be to have a system for creating ActionScript classes from XML Schema, for binding XML data to code.
  I thought it might be a good idea to set something of this nature up as web service, or a web application, using [...]

• 3d, AS3, Flash, Flex

  papervision 3d graph example with view source enabled

  04.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here is a little example of the 3D graph as per my earlier post, with randomly generated data.
  

  
  My URL scheme for this blog messes up the right-click ActionScript View Source option (virtual versus real paths), so you can find it here. (I’m sure there’s a way round that but I really [...]

• AS3, Flash, xml

  how about an xsd to as3 class generator?

  04.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  There are some really powerful solutions out there for communication between Flesh apps and the backend nowadays. LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, Red5, GraniteDS, PyAMF, OpenAMF … and of course support for SOAP and JSON … and I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting. When I think about the bad old days of loadVariables(), we’ve come [...]

• AIR, AS3, Flash

  tamarin, ecmascript4, as3, webkit and air

  04.22.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I’ve been skimming through the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers pocket book, and toying with the idea of creating the idea of an HTML/JS based application. Looking at the actual code examples kind of put me off though. JavaScript is so primitive - no classes, no typed variables. I remember the hoops you need to [...]

• International

  clinton: endless war part ii

  04.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I do try to refrain from adding to the vast swathes of the blogosphere devoted to the US elections but this:
  “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran … In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be [...]

• AS3, Flash, Flex

  puremvc and prana

  04.21.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  After dealing with the fallout from several developers at varying levels of experience coding with their own ad hoc styles, to deadlines, I want to settle on an AS3 framework to form the basis of future large-scale projects. I considered Cairngorm for a while, but I’m now leaning towards PureMVC for several reasons.
  First, the [...]

• AS3, Flash, Flex

  as3 coding style: curly braces in flex builder

  04.17.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  This is a trivial matter, but it’s been bothering me for some time.
  Why does Flex Builder insist on putting the opening curly brace of a function declaration on the next line:
  function foo():void
  {
  .. instead of:
  function foo():void {
  What is the point of this waste of space, which doesn’t make anything easier to read, but justs wastes space [...]

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