Nabaztag API for Actionscript 3 updated to 1.1
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Shan
Thanks to Matt Chotin, Violet has added a crossdomain.xml file to their API. So, I went in and removed all the code that was needed for the proxy.
Enjoy version 1.1!
Reminder: Madison Adobe User Group Meeting Tuesday 3/31
Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Shan
Just a reminder that I’ll be presenting at the Madison Adobe User Group meeting on Tuesday. I’ll be presenting an intro to Flex/AIR/ColdFusion at American Family Insurance. Click the link for more info
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/b5381e2718
Sorry if you already read this on the Webapper blog 
Welcome to my new site, again
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve finished moving everything over to Wordpress now. I ditched the Flex site I was building because since I started it, I’ve decided to make my site less of a personal site and more of my portal to the Flex/AIR/CF community. Also, since I had started that site, I’ve started to focus on open-source projects, [...]
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.
OAuth Actionscript library
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Over the weekend, I wrote an actionscript library for client implementations of OAuth. It’s currently untested, but I’d love to see a few people help me keep it up to date & bug free, if anyone’s interested.
oauth-as3 Google Code page
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 [...]
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 [...]
Changing AIR application directories
Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Shan
I came across an interesting feature of AIR. I was experimenting with the -app.xml file params, and was playing with the installFolder value. As it turns out, if you build a release with one value and install it, then build another release with a different value and overwrite the original install, it still gets installed [...]
Shan’s Simple Examples
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Shan
I’ve started a series of posts on the Webapper blog called Shan’s Simple Examples. I’ll cover Flex and ColdFusion examples as I help others in the IRC channels #flex (EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet).
Hopefully this will turn into a nice library of quick HOW-TOs for us developers.
See a list of blog postings.
View the [...]