I’m very excited and thrilled to be joining the team at Universal Mind! This company has some of the best Flash / Flex / AIR / Actionscript talent in the world! I can’t say how honored I am to be teaming up with some of the folks there to work on my next project! Humbled, honored, nervous, thrilled! Thanks to Darron Schall for giving me the opportunity to step up my game!
I just installed the WP-Syntax Plugin for WordPress. This should allow me create more appealing code examples on my blog.
Actionscript 3 Code Sample:
var as3Test:String = "Testing WP-Syntax with AS3 code.";
MXML Code Sample:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:Label text="WP-Syntax example using MXML." /> </mx:Application>
Recently, the topic of SCORM has been cropping up in multiple conversations. This resurgence has led me to dig around on the web looking for good resources to point people to. If you work in the eLearning industry, you’ll probably want to take a look at this information on SCORM:
I hope that gets you pointed in the right direction!
ActionScript for Multiplayer Games & Virtual Worlds
by Jobe Makar (Author)
Price: $34.64
This one is sure to be full of all kinds of interesting ActionScript code tips / tricks!
I’m pleased to say I’ve switched from a shared hosting plan to a VPS (Virtual Private Server). The migration took some time / effort, but I’m pleased to say that it went very smoothly. My new hosting solution is much more powerful. I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress along the way, installed BlazeDS, and Coldfusion 8. Best of all, I’m back on Linux and digging back into the power of the command line again. I love Linux…it’s great to be back! Bye bye Windows Server…won’t miss ya! The guys over @ Vivio Technologies have been really helpful so far!
Thanks Jordan, Tim, and Mark!
In case you haven’t heard, the public betas of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 were released today.
Details here:
Today, I ran into an interesting little gotcha. When programatically setting the focus to a ComboBox I was surprised to learn that the component does not automatically show the highlight around the ComboBox. Apparently, it only does this automatically for TextInput and TextArea components. I found this buried in the Language Reference under the UIComponent class under the setFocus() method.
Note: Only the TextInput and TextArea controls show a highlight when this method sets the focus. All controls show a highlight when the user tabs to the control.
To get the ComboBox to highlight requires an additional line of code. For example:
focusManager.setFocus(MyComboBox);
focusManager.showFocus(); //not needed if using TextArea or TextInput
These types of idiosyncrasies in the Flex framework can really be annoying! Why isn’t behavior consistent among all the components?
AIR applications built for version 1.0 point to an older namespace. Thus, they will not compile and run in Flex Builder if you are using AIR 1.5.
To fix this, (let’s assume we have an AIR app called SampleAIR), find the SampleAIR-app.xml file in the bin-debug folder of your AIR project.
Open this file in a text editor, and find the following line:
<application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0″>
To make your application work with AIR 1.5 you have to change this line to be:
<application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5″>
Now, save your file and try running / debugging it and it should compile and run fine. Hope that helps!
I found an interesting blog post today that compares the performance of Flex Remoting versus Web Services. I wanted to blog it for future reference. It should come in handy when discussing this with colleagues or clients. Thanks to Mark Piller for putting together this excellent example! For those of you that may be interested, here it is:
Remote Object vs Web Service Benchmarks
Today, I found a new favorite font for programming!
It’s really easy on the eyes and does a great job at distinguishing tricky characters like I, 1, l, O, 0 etc!
If that one doesn’t suit you, try some of these other great programming fonts I’ve used in the past:
Proggy Fonts (I really like Crisp 12 pt)
You can read more about fonts for programming here:
Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts
