Feb26
I recently had a play with the HTML <canvas> element as an alternative to creating a simple animated UI in Flex or Flash. When it came to using the drawImage function I hit upon a strange problem. Read More »
Tags: canvas, dom, event, html, load, ready
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Aug24
I was recently working on a Flex application that had to import a third-party SWF and use its API. Conversely, it needed to access the stage and add children. It threw up an interesting problem with strange import URLs that I finally solved. Read More »
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Apr22
Adobe AIR allows you to set up a system tray icon and context menu for your application. In true AIR & Flex style, this is surprisingly simple to achieve and doesn’t even require a .ico file. Read More »
Tags: adobe, air, dock, Flex, icon, system tray
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Feb12
After being a customer of various web hosting providers over the years, I finally decided to put the knowledge of Linux I have gained to good use and set up my own hosting on SliceHost using Ubuntu Gutsty (7.10). I felt I found some good articles and learnt alot that I would like to share.
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Tags: apache, gutsy, hosting, lamp, Linux, mysql, PHP, slicehost, ubuntu
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Aug31
I recently started converting some UI components I created in MooTools 1.1 into 1.2 versions to use on a new project. For a point release, I’m surprised how different a lot of the MooTools syntax is in the latest version. One thing that took a bit of getting used to was how inheritance has changed, and the knock on effects when using Options and Effects in my classes. Read More »
Tags: classes, events, framework, mootools, options
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Sep5
A colleague of mine at Vebra has been working on a very Web 2.0 update of the outdated concepts of JavaScript client-side validation, Live Validation. Read More »
Tags: Javascript, validation, web 2.0
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