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, [...]
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.
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Shan
There’s a bunch of us Flex developer types who hang out in the #flex IRC channel on EFNet. Y’all should drop by and hang out. It’s a great place to ask questions and learn things before they make their way into blog postings across the interwebs.
Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Shan
So I’m keeping on my New Year’s resolution of getting my butt out into the CF/Flex communities, I’m happy to announce my second open-source project.
StringList is a nice little Actionscript 3 library that allows you to manipulate lists. Modeled after the ColdFusion list functions, it includes the classics like listAppend, listLen and listFindNoCase.
Yes, I know [...]