Colin Moock: master of actionscript.
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if you've got serious rails skills, have built web apps at scale, and are looking for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at a funded startup, megaphone wants to hire you. megaphone is making realtime interactive tv a reality. we have 7-figure revenue and we are about to go big. you'll get …
At MegaPhone and USER1, as at any startup, we build a lot of prototypes. In fact, arguably everything we build is a prototype. In our early days, we churned through a lot of prototype terminology--everything from "one-off" and "test" to "demo," "study," "duct tape," "simplest thing that works," …
The following code shows how to use HTML to align a grid of images in rows and columns without tables, with no spaces or gaps between the images. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Image Grid …
Starting with Union 1.1.0, OrbiterMicro (Union's JavaScript framework) includes native support for WebSocket. Using WebSocket, JavaScript applications can conduct network communications at speeds that rival ActionScript's XMLSocket and Socket (though no browser currently supports native binary …
keywords actionscript, ajax, binary data, comet, javascript, roundtrip, union
i just posted a new example showing how to create a simple multiuser drawing pad (aka shared whiteboard, multiuser sketchpad, or collaborative painting tool) using pure JavaScript and HTML5's <canvas> tag. to manage communication between users, the javascript code uses OrbiterMicro, which …
keywords canvas, drawing, javascript code, painting
Union 1.0 is now shipping and ready for production use in real-world deployments. Union is a development platform for creating multiuser applications. Build chat, whiteboards, real-time multiplayer games, meeting applications, collaborative editing tools, and shared interfaces that run in desktop …
keywords adobe flash, development platform, dozens, editing tools, flash java, games, languages, mobile web, multiuser applications, quick start guide, real time, real world, shipping, web browsers
here's a quick code snippet to replace windows-style line breaks (CRLF, or carriage return, line feed) with a standard actionscript new line character. var newText:String = oldText.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n"); and here's a snippet to replace all multiple line breaks with a single new line character: …
keywords actionscript, line breaks
This article 1) describes how a Flash bug breaks the professional software-release process, and 2) entreats Adobe to fix said bug. THE BUG: When a linked class or the document class resides in a .swc file, the Flash authoring tool can't find it, and generates an error. At MegaPhone Labs, we …
keywords adobe, authoring tool, document class, flash, flash authoring, flash tool, professional software, software release, swc
To fit lots of rows on screen in a Flex 3 data grid, you have to change the font size and the row height of the grid. For example, <mx:DataGrid fontSize="8" rowHeight="12"></mx:DataGrid> But the preceding code causes the text in the grid to be cut off because the grid still has row …
keywords data grid, datagrid, flex sdk, mx
on tuesday august 17 at fitc san francisco, i'll be unveiling MegaPong, a realtime, massively multiplayer version of the classic video-game, Pong. the expected audience of 600 will be split into two 300-person teams. players will use their cell phones as game controllers to collectively control …
keywords audience, cell phones, events, fitc, game controllers, pong, realtime, san francisco
