Ok, So HTTPService piece of cake right? You declare it in mxml and you set the url property and when you are ready you call send() and maybe if you need to pass some parameters. Couldn’t be any easier.
Except what if you want to use the HTTPService class from ActionScript? Well its not much [...]
At the Adobe Community Summit a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to help teach the AIR Flex course. It was a lot of fun and I think of all the events that week doing that helped me meet more people. During the class I answered a lot of questions, but there [...]
Ok, so people laugh at me when I say that 2008 will be the year I abandon google. “Why on earth would you want to do that?” I hear all the time. And my usual answer is that while I am too young to have been affected by the “red scare” I feel [...]
I have started using git for most of my projects. It started as a way for me to continue working with my SVN repositories when I was offline, but as I got more familiar with the application I found I was choosing it over svn.
Why choose it over svn? Because I truly believe that [...]
I read this and though it was a great description of what the SWF specification having the restrictions removed does for us. Lets pretend you had some cake at some fancy dinner. It was amazing, and delicious and suspiciously light on calories. Adobe opening the spec on Flash Player SWF file, is like [...]
Maybe someone out there can help me with this. Sometimes I feel like blogging, and sometimes I don’t. Sometimes when I feel like blogging I don’t want to publish a bunch of articles in a row (like today) so I like to post date my entries so they will pop up in a [...]
When I recently started Geocaching I found that I wanted to have some kind of log that helped me keep track of what caches I had found and which I was still looking for. There are several of these on the market, but I saw this as an opportunity to build something cross-platform and [...]
Ok, I will admit it, I have an addiction. Last week I bought my first GPS unit and I wanted to play with it. So I had heard people talk about geocaching, but I didn’t really understand what it was. So I visited Geocaching.com and read about the process. I searched [...]
I was just going to comment on this article but CNET doesn’t support OpenID and I am not about to go making another account, so I’ll post about it here.
In the article Mozilla speaks out against the free-but-proprietary Web apps the author discusses the problems with free but proprietary software. In a quote from [...]
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