I’d been desperately scouring the ‘webs over the last few days trying to find a Flex List component that would automatically resize to fit its data provider’s contents when using variable row height item renderers. The closest I came to finding such a work was a blog post citing some work done by the people [...]
I’ve added a few minor bug fixes to MePing as well as a bug that would sometimes prevent the AIR update framework from looking in the right place for updates. The update framework will not catch this version, so you will need to manually update the app. Additionally, I’ve added new sections to the site [...]
I’ve added several features to beta 6, including location entry and picture posting. Of course, each of these features will only work with the services that support them. Change log below: – Added Purr notification system for ping confirmations – Added location input for supported services – Added manual refresh to recent pings – Added [...]
First, this version should actually work for everyone beside me. It turns out that Ping.fm requires developers to get their API key “approved” after they get approved for a key itself. Confusing process, but Sean, Ping.fm’s CEO, was quick to help and approve my key. This update includes two major changes, a minor change and [...]
Today I’m announcing the public release of my ActionScript 3 API for the Rejaw mini-blog + chat service. If you haven’t tried Rejaw, give it a look. Some will say it’s a too-little-too-late-Twitter-clone, but it’s a really cool service with some great features that, in my humble opinion, set it apart from Twitter and the [...]
I’m working on a project in which I make calls to a REST API using URLLoaders. One of the calls I make can take up to 80 seconds to respond, but it seems as though URLLoader times out after 60 seconds. I’ve scoured the ActionScript documentation, but haven’t seen anything about a timeout property. Does [...]
I’ve been scouring the interwebs for an ActionScript library for interacting with IMAP mail servers and have found absolutely nothing. Does anyone know of one? At the very least, I’d take documentation on using a binary socket to authenticate to an IMAP server.
Update 2: I should be able to fairly easily convert this to a simple Flex app. I’ll do that when I get a chance and update this post with the link. Update: Ryan gave me the go ahead to post it. Get the AIR app here. I’ve enabled view source, so you should be able [...]
Just saw this over at Ted Patrick’s blog. Looks like Adobe is going to work with Google and Yahoo to allow spiders to crawl Flash SWF content. This is big time if indeed true. A big client objection to full Flash sites is going out the window. I assume the spiders are looking strictly at [...]
So, for the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with the very cool Papervision3D library for Flash. More specifically, I’ve been mucking around in the Effects branch of version 2.0 alpha, code-named GreatWhite. One of the things I wanted to do was create a dynamic text field on a plane. Luckily, I found this post, which [...]
