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Presenting on â??Spring Roo and Code Generationâ?쳌 at Code Generation 2010
See my new blog for the details!
March 10, 2010 04:42 PM
Want to Make a Promise to Someone? Here is one way of doing it…
If you want to make a promise to someone, there is a new website that might help you send your promise/message across in a way that your loved ones will remember and can actually keep with them.
The website is called Bank of Promises.
Here is a brief from the site itself :-
About the Bank :-
The Bank [...]
March 10, 2010 04:40 PM
Running Project Sprouts
A few weeks ago I attended the SanFlashCisco usergroup meeting which was really great. After the meeting we moved to the Mars bar where I got to know Luke Bayes who founded Project Sprouts. Project Sprouts is a Ruby based open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and [...]
March 10, 2010 04:40 PM
360 Flex Swiz Birds of a Feather
Thanks to all who joined the Swiz BOF session at 360 Flex in San Jose today.
John Yanarella and I got the opportunity to show Swiz and some examples. We even had Chris around via Skype and I hope you guys enjoyed it!
Here the links to the slides and code:
Slides
Swiz1Example on GitHub
Many thanks to John Wilker [...]
March 10, 2010 04:40 PM
ColdFusion Builder - Code Assist for Scoped Variables
Heres an interesting ColdFusion Builder feature you may not be aware of. CFBuilder does a good job providing code assistance for CFCs. So for example, consider the following code snippet:
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As soon as I hit the dot, CFBuilder introspec...
March 10, 2010 05:55 AM
Rework by 37signals Hits Stores
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of 37signals, had their new book Rework hit stores today. I heard about this book several months ago and setup an OmniFocus reminder to notify me of its release. I've already sent a sample of the book to my Kindle and will be digging into the text a little later today.
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I%u219m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.
Mark Cuba
March 10, 2010 05:01 AM
ColdFusion Open Source Update - March 9, 2010
Two new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source (a shortened week due to my late post last week). All of the lucky people are at 360Flex in San Jose this week. From the various blog posts and tweets I have caught, it sounds like John and Tom put on another fantastic event. Here's hoping they keep the info coming for those of us not fortunate enough to attend. On to this week's open source posts.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Smartermail API wrapper + UI
Initial R
March 10, 2010 04:53 AM
Automating workout mixes – help?
Update: I think I have this figured out: SoX will do pretty much everything I need. It’ll even do intelligent crossfades and tempo adjustment. w00t!
The Problem—Short Form
Given a database of MP3 files and their intro and outro times, I need a piece of software with a text-based file format that will allow me [...]
March 9, 2010 07:15 PM
Create a scheduled task that runs every minute in Railo
So, this is probably confusing to some and I thought I'd try to clear this up. It's possible to setup Railo to run a task every x hour, minute and/or even seconds. You'll want to log into your machine and go to the Scheduled Task page ( e.g.: http://{your server}/railo-context/admin/web.cfm?action=services.schedule )
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March 9, 2010 07:14 PM
Flex Camp Wall Street and Flex on the Cloud Videos
Two great Flex conferences have recently posted their video recordings:
Flex Camp Wall Street
Flex on the Cloud
There were numerous great sessions and speakers at each of these conferences. At Flex Camp Wall Street I presented “Flex Stuff I am Excited About”. Check it out and let me know what you think.
March 9, 2010 07:13 PM
Music Video: Flex 4: It's a Wrap
Here's a music video I made for the 360|Flex conference. It's a tribute to the Flex 4 release and the Flex SDK team. I hope you like it, from the bottom of my geeky little heart.
March 9, 2010 07:11 PM
What does my race/ethnicity have to do with Olympics?
Sorry if I am just a thick-headed Canadian farm boy but I saw something today that I have to ask about. I went to register for tickets for the 2010 London Olympics when I found this question posed to me:Ethnicity: (it is on this web page)Two immediate thoughts came out of this. First I wondered how to classify myself. Although I have relatively white skin, I do read books from other cultures and try to live some of their ideals. Buddhism is a particularly large influence on my private though
March 9, 2010 07:10 PM
HP's CTO announces Flash Player running on HP's upcoming Slate tablet
Since 85% of Alexa top 100 websites use Flash, and 75% of all video on the web is Flash, having the Flash Player on a tablet is the only way to experience the true web.
March 9, 2010 07:10 PM
Flex on Java book excerpt: Securing your Flex application
Add authentication and authorization to specific parts of your Flex application through the use of the @Security annotations provided by the Spring Security framework.
March 9, 2010 07:09 PM
Flex on Java book excerpt: Securing your Flex application
Add authentication and authorization to specific parts of your Flex application through the use of the @Security annotations provided by the Spring Security framework.
March 9, 2010 07:09 PM
Drill Down Bubble chart
Here is a repost of my version of the Drill Down Bubble chart.
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March 9, 2010 07:09 PM
SxSW and UX
I will be heading to SxSW at the end of the week and look forward to chatting with some other UX focused individuals. The company I work for Universal Mind has a booth and I will be attending sessions but will making some appearances there as well. If you want to see some great [...]
March 9, 2010 07:09 PM
modulr: a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript
modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript
Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr:
modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static analysis to [...]
March 9, 2010 07:08 PM
Serge Jespers On Flash And HTML5 Geolocation
HTML5 includes geolocation APIs that work even on devices without GPS support. And Serge Jespers has posted a demo showing how HTML5 and Flash can work together to use HTML5 geolocation to power a Flash app.
March 9, 2010 07:08 PM
Number 1 on my wishlist: HP’s slate device
I already blogged about how excited I was about HP’s slate device a few weeks ago. These two new videos make me want it even more!
The first one is a teaser ad from HP but make sure you watch the second video! Adobe’s Alan Tam shows the device in action! No CGI tricks here! Alan [...]
March 9, 2010 07:08 PM
The HTML5 Flash Marriage: Geolocation source
Last Friday I blogged about how HTML5 and Flash could also just work together. A few people have asked if they could get the source files. I just packaged and uploaded the FLA, ActionScript class and HTML files. Download the zip file here.
A few people have also noted that the demo doesn’t work across different [...]
March 9, 2010 07:08 PM
3D engine in 10 lines*
During my session at the Flash Gaming Summit, I showed a very simple 3D particle renderer to attempt to demystify the process of converting 3D into 2D.
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Click and drag.
The actual code that converts from 3D to 2D is easy! First you have to figure out how [...]
Related posts:Flash Sparkler
Papervision "billboard" particles
Flash Particles – now 1000% extra free!
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
Article, Flash: saviour of the universe?
Via Mobile Entertainment, download the digital edition and check out the article by Richard CEO of Kooky Panda. I met Richard couple of time and I completely agree with him. There are hundreds of millions of Flash Lite enabled phones but seems no one cares or ignores the opportunity!
“While Adobe is now moving to support [...]
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
Kero Mobile adds support for Sony Ericsson Satio and Vivaz
Via Biskero, Kero Mobile adds support for Sony Ericsson Satio and Sony Ericsson Vivaz.
Download Kero Mobile directly to your mobile phone from www.biskero.mobi
Check the list of supported phones.
Alessandro
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
The Flash Mobile Advantage
A post up about Jeff Smith from Smule and why he won’t ever target Android.
Smith is part of a small but vocal chorus of app developers who say they donâ??t want to move to Android, even though it is growing quickly. His complaints: He doesnâ??t like the way the store merchandises its wares, and he [...]
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
HPâ??s Flash-enabled Tablet
Some very cool video of Flash Player and AIR running on HP’s Slate tablet computer.
It’s great to see Flash Player running on a tablet. One of the nice things about the tablet versus the mobile device is that because of the larger screen size, more content will work out of the box. Flash on mobile [...]
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
Object Persistence With db4o
German over at java.dzone.com has a great article on db4o, a persistence engine that will make life easier for Java developers by giving them a middle ground option for dealing with data persistence, instead of relational databases with ORM tools, which are time-consuming, or serialization, which in Java is not straightforward for object persistence.
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
Windows Phone 7
Microsoft isn’t done yet. Windows Phone 7 shows us that there are still new approaches to an OS for mobile devices that aren’t taking cues directly from iPhone. Check out the idea of navigating via horizontally scrolling built-in hubs to access People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace, and Office.
March 9, 2010 07:07 PM
1st Apple iPad commercial
Apple’s put the 1st Apple iPad commercial on TV this evening (in the US):
March 9, 2010 07:06 PM
360|Flex Day 1 Recap
Day 1 is done and over, and what a day it was. From the keynote to the end-of-day sessions, it was a whirlwind day packed with information. Here's the quick recap on the sessions I attended and the things we discussed.
Morning Session: "Apocalypse Soon - component frameworks" by Michael Labriola. Immediately following the keynote I attended Michael Labriola's talk on "deriving the Flex component architecture." He talked about why things are the way they are in Flex, how the component archi
March 9, 2010 07:06 PM
360|Flex Day 1 Keynote
The rest of the keynote is just logistics for the conference. I'll be back sometime tonight with a re-cap of day 1 and be back tomorrow morning to bring you day 2's keynote. Have a happy Monday!
That's it for Deepa's part.
9:40 Gordon worked on text.
Chet Haase (Flex Team) starts video off doing their own little Flex 4 rap "It's a wrap." Introducing the different Flex team members through rap. Wrap vs. rap haha.
Deepa wrapping up, thanking community for making Flex a success. Playing a
March 9, 2010 07:06 PM
The Boondock Saints: Back In The Theaters March 11th
In honor of its ten-year anniversary, The Boondock Saints (the original) is going to be back in the movie theaters for one night on March 11th (this Thursday) as a Fathom Events screening. I love this movie and I never got the chance to see it on the big screen. The first time I ever saw it, I think I purchased it on a whim for $1.99 in a Virgin Records "DVD Clearance" bin. Who knew that the movie would turn out to be awesome! ... Read More »
March 9, 2010 07:06 PM
Upgrading to Lenny
It's been while since I attended to my VPS, I decided to spend some time last night upgrading my distribution from Etch to Lenny. This is normally a moment where your heart sinks as quite a few things do tend to go belly up, but I am happy to report that I only came [...]
March 9, 2010 07:06 PM
360|Flex Day One: Straight to the Nitty-Gritty
Dana Tierney, Senior Editor, gives us a glimpse of the fun, food and focus on the first day of 360|Flex San Jose.
March 9, 2010 05:37 PM
Flash/Flex Builder Flash Professional Asset Workflows
This post discusses the various workflows for producing SWFs with the standalone compiler that use graphical assets and animations created in Flash Professional ("Flash Pro"). At time of writing the latest version of Flash Pro is CS4, with CS5 briefly out in beta for a short while. Specifically we look at the methods that involve exporting SWCs and using the [Embed] metatag within class files.
Recently I posted a bug report regarding the [Embed] metatag, which led me to write this post in order
March 9, 2010 03:23 PM
Skinning Minimal Comps
A lot of people have asked, and continue to ask how to skin minimal comps.
Short story, long story, what you can do.
Short story: you can't.
Long story: Minimal Comps were designed to be minimal. Mostly for use in prototypes and experiments. Their visual UI is hard coded and skinning was never, ever part of the design [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Minimal Accordion and lots of fixes
I just added a new MInimal Component: an Accordion. It's pretty similar to what you see here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2313, i.e. a VBox with Windows, but I made into it's own class with a few nice touches.
A new Accordion starts with two sections. You can add more with accordion.addWindow("New Window Title");. You can access any window with [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Announcing www.minimalcomps.com
This is long overdue. Minimal Comps have been a sort of side project of mine, and have various posts here related to them, but enough people are using them and apparently liking them, that it seemed they deserved a home of their own.
http://www.minimalcomps.com
The site is nothing fancy (minimal?), and it seemed fitting to use the [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Minimal Comp Examples?
Do you use Minimal Comps? I would love to get a list of sites and apps that feature them. Even if it's just an experiment or proof of concept type example. Leave links in the comments or email me at kp at bit-101 dot com. Thanks!
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Minimal Calendar
I'm doing a personal project with my Minimal Components and I needed a calendar. So I made one.
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It's in version 0.98 here: http://code.google.com/p/minimalcomps/. This release also fixes a couple of bugs and adds a couple of features:
- All components now have a "tag" property which is an int. Comes [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Oh yay, hacked again.
Someone just pointed out that I had an offscreen div with about a jillion spam links. Uploaded a new WordPress install. No luck. Changed the theme, that seemed to do it. Looks like I'm in the market for a new theme. Until then, enjoy the default.
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Check your Flash!
Do you make Flash content? Do you have Flash content on the web? If so, you owe it to yourself and your clients to check this content against the upcoming version 10.1 beta player. There's lots of new goodies in this player, but as you - a developer yourself - know, when you add and [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Programming Art
Been a bit quiet around here, eh?
As I mentioned in my New Year's post, I've been kind of taking a break lately. Haven't really been doing much of anything to write about to be honest. Waiting for inspiration to hit me.
Well, it's starting to hit. A few weeks ago, I talked to Shawn Pucknell about [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
Kindle vs. iPad
There's so much I could say about the iPad, particularly being a Flash guy. But I'll stay out of that fray. Whatever will be, will be.
The thing that bugs me about people's reactions to the iPad is when people say it's a Kindle killer. First of all, I'm pretty sure that most of the people [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation published in Japan
Just before I went out to FiTC Tokyo, I was contacted by Naoki Miyagawa, a translater working for OReilly Japan in Tokyo. He said that he was working on the translation of my book, AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation and had some questions for me. It was pretty cool to be able to say, "Well, as [...]
March 9, 2010 03:21 PM
SVN : authentication with a windows domain
Finally got round to implementing this for work. As a starting point I followed the instructions found here.
The config looked fine, but after restarting the service, I still wasn't getting prompted for a log in. After re-jigging the order to what you see below and restarting the apache service (we are using 2.0.59), it all [...]
March 9, 2010 03:20 PM
New Blog Design
After 3 years, I figured it was time to update my blog design.
What you see here is the result of that decision. I am happy. I like it. I hope you do, too.
March 9, 2010 11:53 AM
Ajax Image Uploads (with Previews)
Earlier today I saw a pretty darn good tutorial over at ZURB (I have no idea why they are, but with a name like ZURB they are either Web 2.0 experts or an alien race hell bent on enslaving us. Either way - cool). The article, Image Uploads with 100% ...
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March 9, 2010 09:54 AM
Kevin Boss Gets It
Right now you may be asking yourself 'Who is Kevin Boss?' and/or 'What is 'it' that he gets?' I will get back to that in a bit, but let me give you some 'back story'. I have not talked about it on my blog, but shortly after Christmas last year my father was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. He has been getting regular chemo therapy (his last round is this week) and since the diagnosis, we have made several attempts to go visit and each was thwarted by illness or bad weather. This
March 9, 2010 02:25 AM
Are You Full As A Goog?
