BetweenAS3, Through AOS, and Around FOTB

by Devon O.· July 27, 2009· in Flash, Life· 2 comments
Been extremely busy of late (not complaining), but thought I’d do a quick update post during lunch to get back into the swing of blogging. First, just finished up a little intro tutorial/article on “Getting Started with BetweenAS3”. For those not familiar with it, BetweenAS3 is a great new tweening engine that’s simple as pie to use and seems to blow other engines out of the water performance wise. You can check out a nice slide show by the engine’s author here. And, if intrigued by that, you can get a gander at the article I wrote over on the TechLabs site. I’m working on a companion piece which goes into more advanced topics on the subject (slicing and scaling tweens, custom easing formulas, registering custom classes, etc). Hopefully that’ll be ready to go by next week. Keep an eye out if interested. Couple new things to check out over at the Adobe Open Source site recently: The Text Layout Framework for some very great and advanced text control in Flash Player 10 is now a part of the Flex 4 SDK, and the Open Source Media Framework for building modular media players with little effort is now available for […]
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Save/Retrieve ByteArrays to/from Database via AMFPHP

by Devon O.· May 07, 2009· in Actionscript, Life· 10 comments
Probably old hat to many folks, but I had to do a bit of googling yesterday to figure this one out and thought I’d write it down lest I forget it all again. The first gotcha to watch out for (the one that got me, anyway), is making sure that AMFPHP is encoding in AMF3. This can be set in the constructor of the AMFPHP class. Your AMFPHP class may look like this, for instance: [crayon-600c511b16883319112401/] The actionscript is pretty standard AMFPHP/actionscript stuff. The question is: why would you need this? Well, say you have a very complex bit of data containing an indeterminate number of objects in multi dimensional array(s) and you want to save all this as a single object in a single database field. You could manually serialize the mess and write it as one long string – or you could simply write the object to a ByteArray and save it in a ‘blob’ in your database. Here’s a quick example: [crayon-600c511b16898932002275/] Hope that might help someone out. My future self if no one else. In other news, just saw that my Site GatherAIR thingamabob has now been listed over on Refreshing Apps. Very cool stuff! And […]
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Update to Website Generation Tool

by Devon O.· May 03, 2009· in AIR, Flash, Life· 7 comments
For those unfamiliar with the AIR Website Generation Tool with the god awful name of Site GeneratAIR (still no good suggestions), check out this old post. Whether familiar with it or not, it has now been updated to version 2.2. New in the latest release: Fixed a minor bug that made the dragged/dropped icons gargantuan on a Mac. Removed the possibility of adding underscores or spaces to the DIV id names for strict doctype compliance (any other crazy characters are your own fault) Includes Swffit 2.1 Includes SWFObject 2.2 (beta, so you’ll probably want to replace this when the official version is released) Includes SWFAddress 2.3 You can install from the badge on the old blog page, or download the .air file directly here. In other news, for anyone who uses the OBO F-Player but has been disappointed that the Youtube downloader quit working, well it should be working again now. No need to update – took care of everything on this end.
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FIS Athlone && Warbler Update

by Devon O.· April 05, 2009· in AIR, Flash, Life· 0 comments
Well, my wife’s first installation gallery exhibit came to an official close today. She had a great, albeit stressful, time and the response from the general gallery going public were fantastic. I can now officially say that I’m married to an artist. Can’t wait for the next exhibit.     In other news, just updated my Warbler AIR application to an official 1.0 status. In case you don’t know, Warbler is a little desktop app. that lets you post songs from your last.fm account to twitter with the click of a button. For more information and to download, head on over to the shiny new webpage made just for it.
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Last.FM + Twitter = Warbler

by Devon O.· March 08, 2009· in AIR, Flash, Life· 32 comments
Well, since all my friends did it, I finally jumped off the bridge and started using Twitter. Still not entirely sure what the real point is. Seems it has some good intentions – 0-day news, updates, notifications, etc. But mainly it seems a way of finding out when complete strangers are stuck in traffic, taking a piss, or going to bed. That said, if you’d like to find out when I’m stuck in traffic, taking a piss, or going to bed, you can follow me on Twitter here. Of course every time I try some new web app, I have to play around with the api. Inspired by a talk by Matthew Ogle of Last.FM at the Dublin Future of Web Applications conference (which I won a free ticket to, incidentally – Woohoo!), I decided to tie in Last.FM to Twitter and so Warbler was born (get it? music, tweeting, songbird, warbler… whatever). Warbler is an AIR application that will display the last 10 recent tracks posted to your Last.FM account and let you “tweet” them with the click of button, thereby sharing your wonderful taste in music with the whole (Twitter) world. Below are a couple screenshots to get a […]
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