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Pinterest is the hot new social networking kid on the block and of course they have some goodies you can sprinkle on your website to make it easy to share and link your content with their service. One thing you can’t do easily with their Pin button is dynamically update it to reflect …
If you are using Flash AS3 with Facebook Connect (aka Open Graph) chances are you have run into crossdomain issues when using profile and album images. Following is a list of all the crossdomain.xml files you will need to load in your swf to get around the security warnings. …
Like most developers I’m constantly reading and learning to keep up with the latest trends and technology. A lot of my energy over the past 12-18 months has been on HTML5 and more recently HTML5 mobile websites and apps. There is a ton of great information available on the web but …
I still remember as boy hearing that sharks never fully sleep like humans, if they stopped swimming they could drown. They need water constantly flowing through their gills to breath. The idea of a shark never sleeping and drowning sounded ridiculous. How could a living thing never stop moving? …
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It’s been a few months since I last had a blog post which is really not like me. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, I have been head down on a few big projects, the most exciting of which was helping the team at Welikesmall to rebuild and launch the new [...]
I don’t typically write a post to review the past year or glance into the year ahead but I have decided to this year for a few reasons. First, by all accounts this was my most successful year as business owner and independent contractor. It is always a good thing to reflect on what you [...]
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It’s become a common phrase in developer job posts and interviews, “rockstar”. Are you a rockstar developer? Do you want to be the next rockstar developer? What do you need to do to become a rockstar developer? I have no idea how or why developers ever got labeled with …
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As promised here are my slides and links to sample code from my Flex for Android presentation at the Toronto Flex User Group meeting. Had a great time presenting for the first time in a long time, will certainly be offering to do it again. You can find all the source code for the samples and …
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I am getting ready to do a presentation today for the Toronto Flex User Group on using Adobe Flex and AIR to create Android applications. Developing Flex apps for Android is an exciting new frontier for Flex developers. Adobe is working to release a new version of the Flex framework, named Hero …
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For those of you who have had a chance to create Flex applications for Android, you have quickly discovered how useless the standard Spark components are. Too small and no true touch support (aside from clicking). This is the first in what I hope will be many demos of reworked Spark components. …
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