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http://www.wrench.com.au/
Initially built using AS2 but never launched in 2006 (due to time constraints i.e. doing real work), the domain that was supposed to showcase my wares remained as a coming soon page for nigh on 4 years. Finally the bullet was bitten in the latter part of 2009 and the decision to port the entire [...]
February 9, 2010 10:45 PM
Help Improve Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 – Get Involved
A quick preface to this entries core message about getting involved to help improve the quality of the next releases of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0:
Adobe’s Flash Player has been getting a lot of press lately. Mainly in regards to HTML5, the Apple iPad (and its closed garden), performance on the Mac [...]
February 9, 2010 10:40 PM
Handling Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) in Python
Internationalized Domain Names or IDN are domain names that contain non ascii characters. It's important to know how to handle these in an application because domain names themselves can actually only contain ascii. Punycode is the way the unicode characters gets encoded into ascii characters in a domain name.
Thankfully python has an encoding language IDNA [...]
February 9, 2010 10:39 PM
KitchenSync Version 2.0 is now available!
I’m very proud to announce that the second version of KitchenSync has arrived! What started as a labour of love about 3 years ago has finally gotten its first much needed upgrade. Just about everything in this version is newer and more streamlined. The entire system for greater simplicity and practical functionality.
This version will not [...]
February 9, 2010 10:38 PM
AlertTabNavigator
We built this component some time ago for use on a gaming/gambling site.
We required a way to alert the user that something important was going on in one of their games, but we didn’t want to use a popup, blocking the user from their current interaction. This was because the user may have been in [...]
February 9, 2010 10:33 PM
Better Tests with Test Data Builders
When developing applications, often you need to set up some dummy data to test things without using real backend services. One particularly useful technique is described by Freeman and Pryce in their book »Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests«: Using the builder pattern to construct complex test data and improve code readability. Let’s say you [...]
February 9, 2010 10:32 PM
Improve Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0
Ted Patrick has this post about Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0. http://onflash.org/ted/2010/02/improve-flash-101-and-air-20.php
These platforms are in beta and our support is needed to use them in the real world and report any problems we may find.
February 9, 2010 10:32 PM
L.A. Flex video: Embedding fonts with MojoFont with Michael Fretz
At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Michael Fretz showed us an eclipse plugin for embedding fonts called MojoFont. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this!
WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f("saiweb_6ef9ec2ec62210312014926740e5cac7", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", {
plugins: {
cont
February 9, 2010 10:31 PM
L.A. Flex video: Using the Flex-Ajax bridge with George McKinney
At our January L.A. Flex meeting, George McKinney demonstrated some examples using the Flex-Ajax bridge. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this!
WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f("saiweb_bc13a876f4d7df45102808f89c9a6de5", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", {
plugins: {
controls: {
February 9, 2010 10:31 PM
L.A. Flex video: Flex app architecture with Michael Allman
At our January L.A. Flex meeting, longtime member Michael Allman talked about his approach to Flex application architecture.
WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f("saiweb_ebae66f7dfccc99c5da2a350dc4c0f10", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", {
plugins: {
controls: {
buttonOverColor: ',
sliderColor: ',
bufferColor: ',
[...]
February 9, 2010 10:31 PM
L.A. Flex video: Image manipulation in Flex
At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Cory McMahon showed us how to write custom filters in Flex, demonstrated some PixelBender examples, and talked about High Dynamic Range Imaging in Flex. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group. Â Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I [...]
February 9, 2010 10:31 PM
Nexus One Flash Player Coming Soon!
Word in the twitterverse is that Adobe gave their evangelists some new toys today. Yes, that’s right, the HTC Nexus One with Flash Player 10.1 beta! When will the rest of us see this beta? Hopefully, very soon.
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February 9, 2010 10:30 PM
Calling All Flash Developers
There has been a great deal of talk about quality of the Flash Player lately in relation to discussions on ‘the device that shall remain nameless’. In my opinion, considering the fact that the Flash Player is backwards compatible with 10 versions, has two complex virtual machines in it, and the fact that it has [...]
February 9, 2010 10:29 PM
Playing around with MongoDB and MapReduce functions
For my Advanced Database Structures course, I have a lecture on non-relational databases. Right now, it’s a little too abstract for my tastes—we talk mainly about OLAP and MDX, but it’s hard to give concrete examples without setting up an OLAP cube. We’re somewhat constrained by our learning environment: instead of using a [...]
February 9, 2010 10:29 PM
cfUniForm v3.5 Released
I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field.
Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page.
A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (on
February 9, 2010 10:29 PM
Creating an accessible animated presentation in Flash
Examine an accessible, animated presentation and learn best practices for building your own.
February 9, 2010 10:29 PM
FCKEditor Firefox 3.6 Bug (Year 2010 Bug)
The new version of Firefox broke my FCKEditor! They didn‘t do it on purpose I’m sure, but it did, in fact, break it. I am using what I consider the standard implementation in ColdFusion (that does not come bundled with ColdFusion). I updated my Firefox to the most recent version (3.6) which [...]
February 9, 2010 10:28 PM
isRFC3339
Compares a date/time string and validates it against the RFC 3339 - Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps protocol.
February 9, 2010 10:28 PM
RIA Radio Episode 7: Joshua Davis, Branden Hall [HYPE]
Joshua Davis and Branden Hall joined us to talk about their latest ActionScript Library/Framework/Ideas called HYPE.
We were also joined by Liz Fredrick, Kevin Schmidt, Zach Stepek, and Leif Wells.
Listen to this week's podcast (m4a or mp3). You can also subscribe to the RIA Radio podcast in iTunes.
February 9, 2010 10:28 PM
Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4
This excerpt is from Chapter 4 (Spark containers, view states, effects, and styling) of Hello! Flex 4, by Peter Armstrong. This excerpt is published with permission.
Session 18 - Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4
In this workshop session, you'll learn the basics of effects. While Flex applications already look very nice out of the box, another benefit they offer is that they can leverage the capabilities of the Flash Player.
(When writing a marketing sentence like that, I guess it's app
February 9, 2010 10:28 PM
QOW: iPad; What's your take?
Now that we have already had the Flash on the iPad discussion, let's take a different look in discussing the iPad. (Please don't start the Flash iPad flame war again)
Will you buy one and if so why?
Would you be more interested in a tablet product if it was running the full version of OS X?
What effect do you think it will have on RIA development?
Are you more interested in developing applications for iPad than you were for iPhone?
February 9, 2010 10:28 PM
J2EE Session Cookies on ColdFusion / JRun
As you are probably aware ColdFusion allows you to use the integrated J2EE sessions that are provided as part of the J2EE server (by enabling the Use J2EE session variables setting in ColdFusion Administrator). When you enable this setting, a cookie called JSESSIONID is used to store the session identifier.
One of the drawbacks to session cookies in ColdFusion is that there is little control over the cookies that are created, you typically need to set the cookies in your onSessionStart event me
February 9, 2010 10:27 PM
ColdFusion 9: CFSELECT + BIND + Selected Attribute Work Together Now?
In case you have been living under a rock like me, it seems the selected attribute works with bound cfselect lists.Form<cfparam name="form.foodID" default="0"><cfform method="post" action="#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#"> Favorite Food: <cfselect name="foodID" value="foodID" display="FoodName" selected="#form.foodID#" bind="cfc:Food.getFood()" bindOnLoad="true" />
February 9, 2010 10:27 PM
ColdFusion 9: CFPDFFORM (A Tag With No Name ?)
A question about saving the output of cfpdfform to a variable came up on the adobe forums recently. As I have been doing some testing with CF9 + CFPDF this week, I suggested using the name attribute. Well I was a bit surprised when someone casually mentioned that cfpdfform does not have a documented name attribute. Huh? Scratching my head I checked the documentation and sure enough name was not one of the listed attributes. It is documented for cfpdf, but not cfpdfform. So I re-checked my code a
February 9, 2010 10:27 PM
Unity 2009 Presentation video
They were finally able to produce and post the video of one of my presentations at Unite 2009. This one covered much of the iPhone Trench Run project in detail. I went through the entire project practically.
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/unite-presentations/bringing-star-wars-to-the-iphone
Enjoy!
February 9, 2010 10:27 PM
Irriation rant (short)
Ever watch a sporting event (Saints ROCK btw – loved that game!!) and hear either the announcer or one of the players/coaches say something like:
“yeah, you know when you’ve got people in the league like the Payton Mannings, the Drew Breeses, the Walter Paytons, the Joe Montana’s…”
Does that drive anyone else nuts? THERE’S ONLY [...]
February 9, 2010 10:27 PM
More Snow in Nashville
This is just a quick video of the snow that's falling here in Nashville, TN. It's the second snow we've gotten in about nine days and I'm loving it!
February 9, 2010 01:54 PM
ColdFusion 9 on VirtualBox
I’ve finally posted my instructions for getting ColdFusion 9 up and running on VirtualBox! It took me a few times to work through the process and get everything working (and documented) and at one point I forgot the password on the VM image and had to start over again. Oooops.
Documentation is now on my wiki:Â [...]
February 9, 2010 01:15 PM
My first hours with the Nexus One
There’s no denying that Apple did a terrific job with the iPhone. After walking around with PDAs and smartphones, Apple really changed the market and it took a while for competitors to catch up. I honestly never thought I would think about replacing my iPhone any time soon. Even with all its obvious flaws… But [...]
February 9, 2010 01:15 PM
Help improve Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0
Adobe engineering is headed into the final stretch of development of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. We need community help to identify quality issues with your deployed and in-development content. While both Flash and AIR are tested extensively internally, every beta we receive valuable feedback from the Flash community and beyond.
Here is how you can get involved:
Download and [...]
February 9, 2010 01:15 PM
ColdFusion ORM Gotcha - Non-String Struct Collection Keys
Here's another tricky issue when working with collections of child objects that are stored as structs. Just like last time, we'll look at a Department object
with a one-to-many property that holds a collection of Users which is stored as a struct. The difference this time is that we'll use a numeric property as the key to the struct,
rather than a string property:
component persistent="true" output="false" entityname="Department" {
property name="DeptId" fieldtype="id" generator="nati
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Apple Dislikes Android Reference in App
The startup Flash of Genius who develops educational software recently got a letter from Apple telling the company that "it would be appropriate to remove" the reference to Andriod in the product description of their iPhone app in the apple store.
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February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Project Cocoon has a new office
Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry.
We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events and even have freelance developers over to work on projects as [...]
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February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Pseudo 3D tricks from old computer games for all your Canvas needs
It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to [...]
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Román Cortés and Ajaxian make up with amazing CSS demos
We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness. We messed up the other week though when we linked to his work on a scrolling coke can. I do these postings as a labor of love, and since Ajaxian isn't my day [...]
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Javascript Grid Component Review
After an entertaining introduction Roberto Bicchierai gives us a pretty comprehensive review of available JavaScript grid components. He divides the list of JavaScript grid editor into: data-driven, light editing implementations emphasizing “editing agility”, and JavaScript Excel spreadsheet clones.
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Exporting instant, edited on-demand highlights clips during live events with FMIS
My new Adobe Developer Center article is now available. This article demonstrates how to build an application that uses Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) as an editing module for live events without requiring any DVR features on a content-delivery network (CDN).
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
AAS Insight 104 podcast
AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight 104 podcast is available.
New firmware for the N97 mini (v11), X6 (v12.x), 5730 (v200), and E52 (V32).
OTA firmware timings question
New Ovi Store Client
Greystripe and Ovi Store
Ovi Maps and 1.4 million downloads
Symbian goes open source
Alessandro
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Mobile World Congress networking events list
Rudy posted a list of networking events during next week Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.
Going to attend several of those events.
Mobile Sunday Barcelona 2010
GoMoNews Blender
WipJam Party & Swedish Beer
WipJam MWC
DeviceDays
Alessandro
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
Kero Mobile reaches 2 Million ads impressions
Via Biskero, looks like that Kero Mobile AppStore application/platform reached 2 Million ads impressions for the platform and 1 Million ads impressions for the AppStore.
Also some more information:
2 M platform mobile ads impressions
1 M AppStore mobile ads impressions
More then 300 apps
Mobile Ads: AdMob, BuzzCity, InMobi, MoJiva, Smaato
LBS for content and ads
Rich Mobile Ads
Nokia OVI [...]
February 9, 2010 01:14 PM
ORM Entity not available? Check your logs
This afternoon I was working on a set of persistent entities called event, eventtype, eventstatus, and eventpriority. Event is the "core" entity with hooks to status, type, and priority. When everything was done I whipped up a quick test:
...
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February 9, 2010 09:46 AM
How To Create GStrings In Javascript By Extending Core Data Types
This morning, I was looking at a tutorial on how to extend built-in Javacript objects by altering the Prototype of native Javacript classes. In doing this, you can add your own methods to Javascript String and Array instances (for example). The down side to this approach is that this affects every new and existing instance of the altered data types (all instances of a given type share a common prototype). This got me thinking about Javascript object extension in general, and I wondered, rathe
February 9, 2010 07:32 AM
What Happens When A ColdFusion CFLock Timeout Is Exceeded Without Error?
Last week, when I was working on my jQuery Photo Tagger plugin (for Flickr-style photo annotation) , I was using CFLock to create thread-safe cache updates in the ColdFusion aspect of the code. As I was doing that, it occurred to me - I wasn't 100% sure what would happen if the timeout (indicated by the CFLock tag) was exceeded and no error was thrown? In the CFLock tag, you can use the ThrowOnTimeout attrib ... Read More »
February 9, 2010 07:32 AM
Repeat - ColdFusion 9 does NOT remove the need to var scope!
Sorry to yell (well, we don't have to assume all exclamation marks are equivalent to yelling) but this email came in to me this morning and it is very troubling for me:
I have a question for you about varScoper and CF9. As I understand it, in CF...
February 9, 2010 06:04 AM
Housekeeping: RSS feeds fixed
My apologies to those following my site via RSS feed; I had a snafu with wordpress after upgrading a few months ago, and it caused my RSS feeds to break.
if you are reading this, everything is working fine now.
February 9, 2010 02:20 AM
Primer on bitly.tv
At bit.ly today, we launched a new product called bitly.tv, and it is part of our new labs.bit.ly project.
bitly.tv it’s a great productivity waster if you are ever bored, but there are also interesting videos out on the web that it helps you find. Here are a few of the awesome videos i’ve found [...]
February 9, 2010 02:20 AM
AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 Betas
As I (slowly) try to recover from yesterday, I thought I'd send out a quick reminder to folks that the latest betas of both AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 are available.
AIR 2.0 should be an amazing release. I highly recommend catching up on Christian C...
February 9, 2010 01:39 AM
Doc - offline Actionscript documentation
Do you use Flash CS4? Then you may have noticed that the documentation requires that you are online. Doc is a free AIR application that can index and display any ASDoc generated documentation in a snappy, searchable desktop application. If you've been looking for a better solution to looking up the AS3 reference, look no further.
February 8, 2010 10:08 PM
Using Away3D with Flex
A common question about 3D engines is how to use them with the Flex framework. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to build your own Away3D Flex Component that will play nicely when the user changes the size of their browser or other components.
February 8, 2010 09:31 PM
Are You Full As A Goog?
