AS3 API listing
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Shan
I’m happy to report that three AS3 projects I’m involved in were added to the ActionScript Cloud APIs list. If you’ve worked on any API wrappers or whatnot, be sure to submit yours before MAX!
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Review: Jungle Disk Plus 2.0
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve been on a quest for the perfect off-site backup service. I’ve considered everything using my own servers and rsync, tried various free/cheap services like Carbonite and AT&T Remote Vault, and finally came across Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk uses Amazon S3 for storage, and Amazon EC2 for their Plus service. This review is of the [...]
URL Encoding in Actionscript
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Sometimes you just need to URL encode a string (URLEncodedFormat() in CF, or urlencode() in PHP), and not actually make a HTTP request. Here’s a simple library for you to use, that I wrote for my OAuth actionscript lib.
Attached is URLEncoding.as for your enjoyment.
Moving to Mac: SVN, Finale
Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Shan
So, after struggling with all other SVN clients, I’ve settled on a commercial product, Syncro SVN Client. It’s no TortoiseSVN, but it’s got all of the major SVN functionality, it works, and it’s stable. Combine that with the light bit of stuff that I do via Subclipse, and I’ve got all the SVN goodness I [...]
EncryptedLocalStore general internal error
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Shan
So I’m developing an AIR app, and experimenting with the EncryptedLocalStore features of AIR. I got to a point where I thought my code was solid, but I wanted to erase all the mistakes I’d created in my keychain. So, I went into Keychain Access, and deleted the keychain file that looked like it was [...]
Watch your site degrade in different versions of IE
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Shan
For anyone who might not know, Microsoft provides VirtualPC virtual machines for free, so you can test against multiple versions of IE on different versions of Windows (XP or Vista).
Download the virtual machines here
They VM’s are pre-activated, and expire every few months, but then they release new VM’s.
Now, you can see first-hand what a crappy [...]
Debugging HTTP on the Mac
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Shan
I was having a little trouble with the SmugMug upload API, and they needed a raw dump of the request to help debug it. I downloaded Wireshark, but it didn’t work out of the box (it doesn’t see any interfaces, which is a common issue that I’m sure is easy to fix). So I did [...]
Do not use a collection of flash.filesystem.File objects as a dataprovider
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Shan
I’m sure someone will fill in the technical details in the comments (hint hint, AIR experts), but here’s what I ran into.
I’m building an image upload system, and I’m allowing people to drag & drop images onto the app for upload. When they drop the images, I put all the File objects into an ArrayCollection, [...]
Spellchecking in Flex
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Shan
I just came across <spellcheck:*>>, a neat replacement for the TextArea and RichTextArea components. It provides client-side or server-side spell checking, along with custom dictionaries.
The best part is that it’s donation-ware, so just claim you built it yourself, it took a week, and pass your hourly rate along to the author*. Just don’t send them [...]
Moving to Mac: VPN
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Shan
Before I had my Macs, I used the Microsoft VPN on one of my Windows servers to give myself access to the home network while on the road. It worked smoothly, and required little setup on the client machines.
While trying to eliminate physical machines in my house, one of the boxes set to get the [...]