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1. Removing all subviews - a comparison of Objective-C vs ActionScript
In Cocoa Touch a UIView object is similar to a DisplayObject in ActionScript. You can add a child to its "display list" by saying: [myMainView addSubview:myOtherView]; To remove the view you say: [...

2. Playing with radial menus on the iPhone
After watching the Microsoft Courier videos on Engadget yesterday I started thinking about radial menus again. There are a few examples out there for ActionScript but I wanted to figure it out in Coco...

3. NIB-less iPhone development
After doing this whole iPhone development thing for a little over a year now I've realized that I hardly ever use Interface Builder. Sometimes I'll create a dummy NIB, drag in some control and use the...

4. FUGN Talk - Bunny Love
Today at the monthly FUGN meeting I presented the apps I wrote this weekend to control my Nabaztag from Flex, AIR and iPhone as I wrote about in this previous post.You can get the slides here as a Key...

5. Return of the Nabaztag
Two years ago I bought a Nabaztag after reading Aral's posts on playing with it. After watching his presentation at FOTB'07 I made a small Flash app for the Wii browser using SWX. SWX made it dead sim...

6. Nordic RIA tour
Tomorrow Adobe kicks off their Nordic RIA tour here in Oslo. The morning sessions are designer focused with talks covering client work and Flash Catalyst (the artist formerly known as Thermo). The aft...

7. FUGN Talk - Sharing is Caring
Holy crap its been a long time. Not dead yet, just crazy busy in the new year - how exactly is it March already?Anyways, yesterday I had a short talk on SharedObjects and storing your own VOs in them ...

8. Extending your own MXML component inline or in another custom component
Earlier I was trying building a custom MXML component in Flex 3 with some basic functionality, lets call it MainComponent. The thinking was that it would handle all that stuff and then I could create ...

9. More dialog FAIL
Not sure why but lately I've been coming across more and more of these horrible dialogs. For example, I had this fantastic error pop up in FlexBuilder:And last week this great one when trying to use N...

10. Introducing swfversion.com
Last week I spent way too many hours trying to figure out why this SWF from an agency wasn't working when being used in a client's CMS. Turns out the CMS used another SWF that loaded in all other Flas...

11. I Can Haz Awesome
While in Brighton during Flash on the Beach I got to hang out with David Stone, aka @builtbydave as I knew him, who along with Josh Russell are the guys behind icanhaz.com. If you haven't used iCanHaz...

12. FUGN Talk - TubeTheVote.com case study
Yesterday at the monthly Flash User Group Norway meet-up I did a quick case study on TubeTheVote.com. Going through the reasoning behind the project and how it was put together, going a little more in...

13. FlexBuilder dialog fail
Yesterday I was trying to activate my copy Flex Builder 3 and came across even more dialog box fail. Spot the error for 10 points....

14. Tube The Vote!
So the last project I was working on before I left my old job was soft-launched a couple weeks ago - well the user/password combo that was previously required was removed. In any case, my designer-tur...

15. Now co-managing FUGN
This past Monday Flash User Group Norway had the first post-summer get together where we put together a board to take over the finances of the old Macromedia User Group (was that really 2 years ago,...

16. Return of the FUGN
After a summer hiatus Flash User Group Norway is back next monday for, as Øystein put it, "season 2". Will Chris make it out of rehab? Will BG put everything on the line? Is skateboarding just...

17. Time flies but I ain't dead!
Not sure how two months flew by since my last post but figured an "I'm not dead" post was in order. So lets see - I left my job at Blogform Digital Magazines, enjoyed a month of sunny vacation here in...

18. dOMi Preview - its Papervision, punk
The past couple of days I've had alot of fun putting together a preview site for my buddy's band dOMi. They have a full-length album coming out at the end of August and we plan on building a web prese...

19. Creating component instances from Strings in Flex
Lets say you have a project where you have a data-set that you want to display in different ways. Also, the component that is to be used to display the data is sent over the wire from the server as a ...

20. Using FlashVars when loading a Flex app into another SWF
Back story At work sometimes we create offline versions of the stuff we produce that run from a CD. To do this I normally create a wrapper SWF that loads in the main app SWF and everything is good to...

21. PlanetFlash.org
Last week at the Flash User Group Norway meetup, Knut showed us one of his latest projects: PlanetFlash.org. So what's Planet Flash - its like MXNA, but its up™ :) I don't visit MXNA that much s...

22. Certified Flex head
On a whim, I took the Adobe Flex 2 certification exam this morning and passed, weee! :) I've been living in Flex for the past year or so and I'd been thinking about it so I checked out the practice t...

23. Cairngorm and AMF:PHP - bending Services to work with NetConnection
At work I've been getting into Cairngorm for a little while now and its quite a beast to tackle. It took me three attempts to actually grok what was going on, and although the article on DevNet is gre...

24. FUGN Talk - Introducing AIR 1.0
Yesterday I presented an introduction to Adobe AIR 1.0 at the monthly Flash User Group Norway meeting (FUGN). I created a small demo app that shows off a few of the available APIs and went through ho...

25. Flex 3 install list
After helping to set up Flex 3 beta 3 on a few machines lately I decided to create a list of useful links, to save some time in the future. TODO/FIXME extension - any comments starting with TODO or...

26. CanvasMaker v.0.2
After chatting with Chris on Monday over some Ardbeg, he showed me the PNGEncoder class that comes with Flex 3 (part of the mx.graphics.codec package). That reminded me that I'd seen that class before...

27. Introducing CanvasMaker
After writing my copy of Joshua Davis' "base fade loop" I was playing with different property values and how they affect the canvas, and thought it would be cool to have a GUI for that kind of thing....

28. FotB '07 roundup
So Flash on the Beach '07. It was last week and its taken me about this long to process everything. In a word, wow. In two, holy shit. Seriously. Last year I didn't get to go due to too much work, wh...

29. Adobe releases and issues with Parallels shared applications
Adobe released a bunch of stuff today (check FlashMag for details). The Flex Design Extensions are very nice, allowing you to create skins for Flex components in Flash and Photoshop in a much easier f...

30. Hasta la vista, Vista
Seriously that's the best title I could come up with. Sorry.At work I got a new Dell XPS system - a great machine but it sure ain't no Mac. And this puppy runs Vista Business to boot. Its the first ti...

31. New job
I don't normally write about my work life, I try to separate that from what I write here but today I started a new gig here in Oslo. Going to be doing some Flash and Flex development working alongside...

32. Twit O'Gram v 0.3 - Flexirrific!
This afternoon I spent some time rewriting the Twit O'Gram player in Flex. The reason for this was two-fold: FlexBuilder provides a more strict development environment which I love, with a great debu...

33. if(!AMF0) AS3 + FMS2 != worky
Holy freaking crap. I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why FMS2 isn't liking my extremely simple AS3 app until I came across this post. Basically the magic is as follows: NetConnectio...

34. Twit O'Gram Player
Dave Winer had an idea that jumped at me while reading through my list of feeds that really peaked my interest. Its quite simple really, mixing podcasting and Twitter in an interesting way. Basically ...

35. Coming up for air
The no posting for a while seems to be becoming a bad habit. Too much work and other fun stuff to play with. I'm finally delving into using ARP in some Flash projects (though staying away from the for...

36. Apollo has landed
At long last the alpha release of Apollo is now out on Labs and it looks very good! Lee Brimelow over at the Flex blog has been posting some nice examples, though my favorite is the utterly useless bu...

37. Yahoo! Pipes is impressive
If you haven't yet you should check out the new Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the serv...

38. Flex resources
According to Amazon, we still have a couple of months wait for Flex 2 books to be released. Programming Flex 2 has a March 2007 release date, and the Flex 2 Cookbook at the end of May. Until then, I f...

39. Sorting XMLListCollection
Earlier I was trying to parse some OPML in a Flex2 app, and I've got to say that playing with XML in AS3 is a joy, compared with how it was in earlier versions of ActionScript. I heart the E4X! In any...

40. PHP-based XML loading proxy for Flash/Flex apps
According to Adobe: For security reasons, a Macromedia Flash movie playing in a web browser is not allowed to access data that resides outside the exact web domain from which the SWF originated. In o...

41. London User Group TV - Papervision and Flex2 Components
While reading through my Flash/Flex feeds earlier I saw that Tink had posted a link to a live cast of the London Flash user group meetup earlier tonight. The first presentation about Papervision3D was...

42. Flash Player 9 Debug Universal Binary aka "the elusive one"
Earlier I found out that I'd upgraded my Flash player to 9.0.28, but this wasn't the debug version. Finding the debug version of Flash player 9 for Intel Mac is absolutely impossible on the Adobe sit...

43. Finally try/catch with MTASC
Don't mind the pun :) Earlier I was trying to make some code more robust by setting up try/catch blocks within some helper classes. These exceptions would then bubble upwards, each level adding its o...

44. Flex2 for Mac
... out now on Adobe Labs! [Via richinternetblog] ...

45. FlashDevelop 2.0 final released
Woo! FlashDevelop 2.0.0 Final has been released, run and download it here. The new version includes AS3 and MXML completion and Flex2 compiler integration (if you get the add-ons). No new features, b...

46. Flash player 9 for all
Earlier today, after updating OS X to 10.4.8 I noticed that within the security updates was a little bit about upgrading the Flash Player to version 9. I imagine that is related to the flaw found in ...

47. Top 10 OSX apps after 3 weeks
This is the third week with my MacBook Pro and its been great. I've found several apps that have made life easier, so in the spirit of Letterman here is my Top 10 list: 1. QuickSilver QuickSilver si...

48. FlashPlayer 9 for Intel Macs
You'll have probably noticed all the noise around the recent release of Flex 2, and with good reason too. This is an awesome product and Adobe is out to make sure it catches on this time around by gi...

49. Fun with Flex2
Last week I finally had the time to play with Flex 2, after having Flex Builder Beta3 installed for a few weeks now. After going through the first few chapters in the documentation and playing with t...

50. JBoss Flex2 mail client
In a recent post titled, "Collaboration Based Application Services with JBoss Collaboration", Andrew Oliver shows off a web-based mail client made using Flex2. Now I know very little Java an...

51. Second Adobe User Group meeting
So yesterday was the second Macromedia Adobe User Group meeting here in Oslo which was alot of fun. Pil Smith, a traditional cel-based animator, showed off some of his Flash animation work. He's a fra...

52. Sharing ActionScript code at runtime
Sharing images, other graphics, animations and such is handled easily in Flash by using Shared Libraries. This way you could have one main Library.swf and its contents being used by other SWFs on a pa...

53. Flash + CSS
Here are some great articles about using CSS in Flash to essentially create replacements for your headers, or any text for that matter. "I think this is a great way to get cool typefaces into blogs ...