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Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes So I believe by my last posts here you may have guessed I’ve been doing lots of mobile development in the last few months. It’s got nothing too do with work, as I do all of my mobile development on my spare time at home. So what brought me [...]
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Here’s is something that got me scratching my head for a little while today while working on my new mobile application. In my new application, I’ll be reading XML off various different providers, so I have an interface that gets implemented in various …
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes This is just a quick example of how to add a background colour to a label control in AS3. Most people don’t know, but the label component has a TextField inside of it. What that means is that you can basically use all of the available methods within the [...]
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As some of you might have noticed, I have been building some mobile applications lately on my spare time specifically for the Blackberry Playbook. They are mainly built in Adobe Air using Actionscript 3 and Blackberry's Tablet SDK.
On my latest application, I have found the need for a database, …
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I’m building a new Blackberry Playbook app, and when starting to work with internationalization, I got stuck with a bug that wouldn’t go away. I’m pretty sure this won’t just affect just this kind of application, but anything that is built …
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Ok, I know I’m late on this, but I just thought I’d register here that Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has just been released on the Adobe Labs this week. A few of it’s key features are: Stage Video hardware acceleration Internet Explorer 9 hardware …
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I know it must be pretty old news by now that Matt Gifford has written a book called Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion. I’ve been approached by the folks at Packt last week and asked to read it and write a review about the book. I’m still …
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes As previously mentioned on my other post, I’m working on improving usability and user experience within one of our applications. This application has a somehow complex authentication system managed by Fusebox. In one of our screens, we’ve replaced …
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Reading time: 8 – 12 minutes Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt | Author: John Farrar The book starts with a very brief introduction to ColdFusion, and what the basic language capabilities are. On chapter 1 – Web Pages – Static to Dynamic The author begins …
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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I found this two function yesterday while working on one of our applications. We are turning a very boring page into a full blown jQuery powered page. It’s got loads of functionalities being turned into Ajax calls to give the user a better experience. We …
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