June 27, 2011

Flex

Flex Mobile Custom URL Schemes

Android and iOS support launching applications via custom URL schemes, or in other words, apps can be launched by the user clicking a link or button other than the icon on the start screen. This feature allows developers to add... Read More

June 1, 2011

Flex

Flex Mobile DisplayObject List (Video)

Flex SDK 4.5 for mobile shipped with an IconItemRenderer that is extremely efficient at showing static images in a list. However, most enterprise and data driven applications are going to need to show dynamically created, interactive, and data driven... Read More

May 31, 2011

Flex

Flex Mobile Custom View Panning (Video)

Flex SDK 4.5 mobile view navigator framework does not make use of the multi-touch features of the Flex 4.5 SDK. As stock, the framework provides 'navigation' buttons and an api to switch between views. The video above previews and... Read More

January 28, 2011

Flex

Flex Threading Class

Adobe's Flash player run time environment does not support multi-threading; except for very specific external interactions. Flash player uses an ancient frame-by-frame single threaded monolithic execution model. This means that drawing in the UI and handling user interactions are directly... Read More

April 14, 2010

Flex

Scrollable Flex Charts

The majority of the work in this project was taken directly from MaximPorges.com article on Scrolling Large Data Sets in Flex Charts. The code posted in that article works very well for horizontal scrolling, but not at all for vertical... Read More

December 17, 2009

Flex

Excluding all but one directory in ASDoc 3

ActionScript Doc (ASDoc) is a utility that ships with the Flex 3 SDK that generates documentation based on ActionScript code; its very similar to JDoc and JSDoc for Java and JavaScript. While ASDoc does have many handy features, one major... Read More

September 29, 2009

Flex

Generating ASDocs in Flex Builder 3

ASDoc's plethora of command line options can be frustrating to contend with. Here's an easy way to generate ASDocs for any project in Flex Builder 3.... Read More

August 29, 2009

Linux , Web Hosting

Using IPTables to Block SSH Brute Force Attempts

Most Linux distributions have no SSH brute force counter measures 'out of the box'. You can use this simple command line set to configure an IPTables rule that blocks SSH attempts from any IP after 3 failed ssh logins. iptables... Read More

March 10, 2009

Javascript

Introducing ChargeWell.com, an online shopping cart for small businesses

Today I'm proud to announce the first open beta of a new online shopping cart at ChargeWell.com! We've made available a limited number of free accounts. Just use the "Register" button at the top right of ChargeWell.com. ChargeWell is a... Read More

March 8, 2009

Javascript , PHP

Speed web page rendering by combining JavaScript and CSS files, with PHP and Memcached

Web browsers have built-in logic that determines when linked resources such as JavaScript and CSS are downloaded. Because of the nature of JavaScript execution and CSS rendering, the browser may delay it's request for each resource, even when that's detrimental... Read More