Squashing Bugs... Read More

Sorry, couldn’t resist I just tried out Cubestat by evaluating Google. Yahoo gives me a market cap of $151.48B…... Read More

The other day I was asked to demonstrate how to setup AMFPHP in Flash. As I’ve already done it many times in Flash 8 with little or no problems I felt relaxed about it. The machine I was to demonstrate on only had Flash CS3, no problem I thought and fired up an Actionscript 2 project. The extra components you are required to install in Flash 8 are probably already integrated by now I thought and copy pasted code from an older project, hit ctrl-enter and got a debug window complaining about a lot of missing classes. Apparently you have to copy that stuff from somewhere in the Flash 8 program dir tree and put in the corresponding place in the Flash CS3 dir tree. We didn’t have any Flash 8 installed though…

So I started a new AS3 project instead and started googling my ass off for a quick solution (the designers I were demoing to started getting restless), which I found in the form of Oscar Trelles‘ nice AS3 Flash remoting example. I followed the tutorial but no it didn’t work. The staging server had .htaccess with password protection that ruined things this time. I had to give up, I told them I would get back to them and here I am!... Read More

Yesterday I had to figure out a way to make an extendable banner in Flash that when extended covers the content. The main idea with the approach I took is to load the shockwave in a div tag that is positioned above the content and have a movieclip in the shockwave for instance move down when the mouse is positioned over it.... Read More

The goal of this interface was in essence a combination of the military budgets example and the zooming with overview example. It turned out to be more complicated than just pasting the code from both, anyway below is a screenshot of the result so far.... Read More

So I’m in the BKK office this week, for some reason the /etc/network/interfaces got whacked when I plugged in my Ubuntu here yesterday, no idea why.... Read More

As you might know already Pico has a GUI system similar to for instance Haml. That’s all very well and fine, the problem is that as opposed to Haml a typical Pico GUI script contains a lot of logic as well, I shudder to think having designers poking around in there to output the HTML just like they want it. And we are not quite yet at the point where we are doing completely CSS controlled designs, it’s a goal though.... Read More

I had to rename a lot of files today, recursively.... Read More

See the prior tutorial on what kind of information the ActionScript in this tutorial needs and how it is generated.... Read More

If you are new to MODx you might want to check out the newbie MODx tutorial before you continue.

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