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Ryan who is just starting his project CubeHenge wanted some tips on how to make money with open source.  I tried to give him some answers, and it then degenerated into this blog post. Your project is a business, it’s just that your business model is different, because you’re not selling licenses for your software. […]

AMFPHP is back! A new team has come together to get the project moving again. What? AMFPHP is the best way for Flash to communicate with your PHP code. It understands the AMF data sent and received by Flash, and translates it into something your PHP code can work with. AMF allows for binary serialization […]

Now is about that time of year when the music you hear in public spaces is even more aggravating than usual.  The idea I guess is to get you all warm and christmassy to make you reach for your credit card more readily.  I’m ok with music thought out for certain listening conditions.  Dance music […]

I just found yet another way to provoke the dreaded An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information. in Flex. I got an update of some Flash assets in a SWC, and using that SWC caused the error. I tried the usual tips found on the net to no avail. What I ended […]

Hi, There’s a new release of OOF, the very Open Flash components, fresh off the press. The tasty new bits: – you can now read Excel files, with the new ExcelConnector. – you can now scroll your lists with the new ListScrollBar. – the XmlConnector now allows you to import any XML file and use […]

I guess this could be called Flexing with a Flasher, part 3. So here are links to parts 1 and 2. I ended requesting the FLA file from the designer, and I ran into a couple (more) bugs in Flash CS3. I don’t use CS4 yet simply because it’s still not stable enough for me […]

I wrote this post on the joy of authoring designs for Flex in Flash. This is the follow up. Since I last posted, my attitude has gone from “cautious optimism”, to “why oh why didn’t we stick to plain Flash???”. Fonts. They always suck and create problems and make me plead for using arial everywhere, […]

Up till now I’ve worked with designers who have given me images and guidelines on how to use them in Flex. So I would get a load of PNGs, and we would sit down together and toy with the animation that would use them in the application. Now I’m confronted with something a bit more […]

One of the best tips I’ve heard on class design is the following : Say the Class name and the member names out loud. If it doesn’t sound right, you’ve got to change something. As a case study, let’s look at the Flex UIComponent. Ok it’s called UIComponent. Fair enough that’s a pretty good name. UI […]

I was doing some wishful thinking about generating todos from code comments in Flex Builder over at Ted’s Blog and someone helpfully pointed me to someone who has the job for me. Here’s a plugin for Flex builder that does exactly that. http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?entry=911D4B57-0F0D-5A73-AF6F4D4D04099757 Share the love! in French here