http://dreamingwell.com/articles/ en-us 2011-06-27T16:55:02-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-cus-2.php 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... Flex wildag 2011-06-27T16:55:02-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-dis-1.php 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... Flex wildag 2011-06-01T10:34:39-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/05/flex-mobile-cus.php 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... Flex wildag 2011-05-31T16:37:24-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/01/flex-threading.php 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... Flex wildag 2011-01-28T12:39:57-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2010/04/scrollable-flex.php 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... Flex wildag 2010-04-14T16:29:53-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/12/excluding-direc.php 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... Flex wildag 2009-12-17T13:03:52-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/09/generating-asdo.php 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.... Flex wildag 2009-09-29T13:38:11-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/08/using-iptables.php 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... Linux wildag 2009-08-29T17:11:45-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/03/introducing-cha.php 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... Javascript wildag 2009-03-10T10:21:30-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/03/speed-web-page.php 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... Javascript wildag 2009-03-08T21:29:13-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/02/creating-a-scal.php MemCached is a free "distributed memory object caching system" that can work wonders on your application's responsiveness and server load. If your application does not need "instantaneous" data calculations for every user, you can use MemCached to greatly reduce your... PHP wildag 2009-02-11T08:42:33-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/08/transcoding-myt-1.php MythTV has a builtin UPnP server that can serve recorded shows to the PS3's UPnP client. However, the format that MythTV records may not be directly compatible with the PS3s video client. I use the following user job in MythTV... MythTV wildag 2008-08-03T22:22:21-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php RIAStats.com collects statistics about Rich Internet Application browser plugin deployments and provides the results publicly. The site uses a small javascript, much like Google Analytics, to detect the presence and version of RIA plugins. Like google analytics, any web site... Flex wildag 2008-07-24T10:33:38-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php Using some of my previously covered material, I have created a Flex appication that displays Shapefile (.shp) polygons on a map. This demo includes three different shapefiles that give some information about Brazos County, TX. You'll notice that you can... Flex wildag 2008-06-18T16:33:42-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php Just for fun, I've created a Google SocialGraph Explorer application in Flex. Google's web spider picks up XFN and FOAF information. The Google SocialGraph API makes that data available through a JSON API. Running Demo Source Code This application makes... Flex wildag 2008-06-13T13:44:44-06:00