Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 28th, 2007

Music To Code By – a little bit of everything.

It sounds great through the finetune desktop player (made with Apollo). :)

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 27th, 2007

If so, I’m considering starting an Adobe Flex/Flash/Apollo user group. We had the Flash Developer User Group but they haven’t met since October or November of last year and their blog hasn’t been updated since the beginning of September.

With the exponential increase in Flash/Flex/Apollo development, I’d be interested in meeting the developers in my area. There are quite a few in town but we need to strengthen the network. This group would be for anyone interested in Adobe technologies.

Interested? Shoot me an email – brandonthedeveloper AT gmail DOT com.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 23rd, 2007

I’ve been meaning to share this for a while. I love the way the whole scene is played out with Typography.

http://www.motionographermedia.com/jarrattmoody/intonation.mov

Safe for work if you wear headphones or your work doesn’t care.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 23rd, 2007

Loading html either from a string or a location to an HTML component, if you have instances of target=”_blank” inside an anchor tag, it will not work. You can use target=”_self” though.

I got rid of them with a little regulare expression replacement (which is great in AS3):

var regex:RegExp = /target="_blank"/gi;
body = body.replace(regex, "");
html.htmlText = body

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 20th, 2007

2007 and I still hear folks asking what is the benefit of targeting the desktop -

Two words – Content Delivery.
Want to keep yourself fresh in the mind of users? – Content Delivery.
Want to get new content to users without the wonder of will they come to the site? – Content Delivery.
Want to do mass information updates pushed to the user? – Content Delivery.

I don’t see why folks have such a hard time with this.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 20th, 2007

I posted this a few months back but I just got bit in the ass again by it.

If you are loading a swf into a Flex/Apollo project, and your swf file is using _level0 references, it will not work. The swf sees the parent application as _level0 and itself as _root.
I can’t believe I got caught up with this again! Hopefully I can save someone else from having to deal with this kind of trouble.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 19th, 2007

The Apollo Runtime and SDK available here.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 17th, 2007

You can download Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide here. It’s a good read to get folks up to speed on what all the commotion is about Apollo.

I’m hoping Adobe will be releasing the Apollo Runtime very soon since they were handing out the Apollo Alpha Runtime CDs (and fully licensed versions of Flexbuilder w/Charting) to Apollo Camp attendees.
Maybe someone has posted the runtime as a torrent? Oh boy, I’m getting desperate to get my hands on Apollo. :)

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 14th, 2007

Just finished up this app last week and got my boss’s blessing to share.

Here’s some background on the project – As part of a our Nurse Recruitment campaign for HCA, we created an application that shows all the participating facilities in the campaign area. These facilities can be viewed by location, type, size or clinical specialty. I think the project was a huge success. Thanks to Ted Patrick for adding it to the Flex App Flickr page. :)

The application was built with Flex 2, Flash 8, the Yahoo Maps API, and XML.

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at March 3rd, 2007

[UPDATE : The original article I had read about Best Buy is no longer available. Here's an article with the same info from The Consumerist]

I just read this article on Best Buys’ ‘bait and switch’ pricing using a previously denied internal fake website. It just confirms their sliminess to me. I remember five or so years ago Best Buy would advertise a ridiculously low price and when you went to the store, would not honor the price saying it was a typo. The problem was, it happened way too often to be a typo. Not to mention, Best Buy should have honored the advertised lower price for the sake of good customer service but never did. I don’t shop at Best Buy for anything and now I’ll know I never will.