Embed system fonts with Flex SDK
Posted on 6th March 2010 in ActionScript | No Comments »
This little ActionScript 3 snippet will convert the system font to a SWF font instance that you can use in your AS3 project. Read the rest of this entry »
Enhance the ugly Eclipse icon on your Dock
Posted on 4th March 2010 in Mac OS | No Comments »
It’s pretty certain that an average Flash/RIA developer cares about how the dev tools look. If a piece of software looks ugly, it’s unlikely to be used.
Eclipse in that matter is one such tool. On Mac OS X its Dock icon looks ugly and the splash screen isn’t any better either. To improve this unbearable ugliness on the Dock, here’s a way to
swap this 
for this 
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Enable Quick Look of ActionScript and Flex files on Snow Leopard
Posted on 4th February 2010 in ActionScript | No Comments »
Having Adobe CS4 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard both installed is very likely to mess up Quick Look of Flash ActionScript (.as) and Flex (.mxml) files. Most inconvenient for those used to browsing through the files and looking into them by just hitting the Space key. Read the rest of this entry »
Making sense of Flash compile-time and run-time errors
Posted on 29th January 2010 in Flash | 2 Comments »
Every new version of ActionScript has had its impact on the compiler and error handling. Since ActionScript 1, that had loose typing and was suited well for small-scale scripting projects, things have changed considerably. Read the rest of this entry »
Flash Platform is at a crossroads
Posted on 17th January 2010 in Flash | 1 Comment »
Since Flash CS5 was announced last year, community has became passionate about pretty much everything Adobe has to say, recently in regard to dumped CS5 beta and the new Flash Player 10.1. Some sceptics even go as far as suggesting dumping the ActionScript codebase in favour of JavaScript over speed, an absurd idea.
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How to enable Caps Lock on iPhone
Posted on 4th December 2009 in iPhone | No Comments »
Those of you wondering on how to enable Caps Lock feature on iPhone, here’s a quick rundown: Read the rest of this entry »
Flash CS4 graphics importer lacks precision
Posted on 18th November 2009 in Flash | 1 Comment »
Importing graphics from Adobe Illustrator to Flash is a nightmare when it comes to precision graphics. Incredibly enough, an utterly fine graphic in Illustrator may turn up all shoddy in Flash. Read the rest of this entry »
First impressions on Flash Player 10.1 prerelease and AIR 2 beta
Posted on 17th November 2009 in Flash | 2 Comments »
Adobe announced 2 great releases today: Adobe AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 prerelease, both aiming high with Flash Player 10.1 being the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project and AIR 2 offering a significant performance boost with compelling features.
ActionScript 3 Array constructor vs Array literals benchmark
Posted on 16th November 2009 in ActionScript | No Comments »
By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g. var myArr:Array = new Array(2); for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g. var myArr:Array = [];
Thawte closes down its WoT and Personal E-mail Certificate
Posted on 14th October 2009 in Industry | No Comments »
Thawte, a leading global SSL certificate authority, announced today that the Thawte Personal E-mail Certificates* and WoT (Web of Trust)** are being discontinued.
What it basically means, is that many users enjoying Thawte’s free email certificates at this point, will be left in the dark after November 16th, 2009.
