August 20, 2008
Finding a good Caliper or measuring tool that is both cross-platform and FREE seems to be quite difficult. PixelPerfect is a good starting point but not really as useful as a real caliper. So I decided to create myself a CALIPER application for Adobe® AIR™
Project Page or directly from the
Adobe MarketPlace
August 13, 2008
Forgot to post about this but redbullracing went live last month and i was in charge of creating the flash homepage. It was a simple but interesting project, most notably the distortion effects that are applied to it. Apparently they have caused a lot of people to think their monitors were broken! I blogged about some of these effects
here I also made a little countdown timer that lets you know how much time is left until the next race. Which was kind of neat as it had to be localized to the users current location.
August 5, 2008
They have just posted a security alert over at
Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team Website regarding false links on social networking sites that tell you to download un-official versions of the flash player that have malware installed on them..
So be careful
July 31, 2008
I needed to build a simple Password Strength indicator much like the ones you find on google registration pages. Using some simple RegExp ( Regualar Expressions ) it wasn't that hard.
Below is a simple example that uses the class to display the security level as well as updating a HBox to show a visual indication of the quality of your password.
The crieteria for the regular expressions are to check Capital letters, standard letters, numbers and none word characters to build up the quality level Right click to view source
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July 29, 2008
The guys over at adobe have put together some good free video's on getting started in Flex, Currently 3 whole days worth of stuff!
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
July 20, 2008
Ok so I was given the challenge of creating a TV style distortion effect for a project im working on. The obvious solution for this was to use a sound wave and create a distortion effect based on the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum( ); method in combination with a DisplacementMapFilter to build a distortion effect for any Sprite in an Application or indeed the application itself.
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June 24, 2008
I thought that I would just write a quick note on how I know which version of an application I am looking at when it has been published to the web. It's all well and good saying its revision 87 from svn but how do you know? Well a simple way is to add it to the Flashplayers custom context menu. Right click to see the custom menu and to view the source
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Some time ago now I decided as a self improvement mechanism to re-write one of the Flex components from scratch so that I could get my head around the Flex Component Framework. So I set my eyes on the ColorPicker Brave or stupid you decide as this was going to be one of my first components ever, I should have probably started somewhere a bit smaller.. But hey.. It works and I learnt a hell of a lot. and now it's time to share.
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June 19, 2008
After reading an example chapter from
Training from the Source : Profiling Flex Applications on InsideRIA I thought ooo! I like using the profiler but i didnt know you could do that! So away I went and opend up one of my apps and clicked Profile.... O no whats going on? No Profiler prompt just straight into the application
Socket closed.
Socket closed.
Socket closed.
Flex Profiler No activity 60 seconds after connection.
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June 5, 2008
Wow that was a big title!
Ok i know its not something you would usually have to do but I think this is useful anyway when you have a large list of public static constants declared in a class and you want to somehow loop through them without having to place them in an array or dictionary manually. For example i was writing a Translation utility class today and i needed to add this list of supported languages.
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