http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/ A blog about the Flash platform development and other tech stuff. en Copyright 2010 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:31:45 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2010/04/i-have-a-dream.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2010/04/i-have-a-dream.html General Adobe Apple Flash Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:31:45 +0000 by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management of Google. Some might argue Google isn't open about search algorythms etc. But I think they have proved that the opposite business model of the traditional hook, line and sinker is worth a consider. ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/12/openness.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/12/openness.html General Ubuntu Google Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:31:23 +0000 Continuous Integration and as you do I started thinking of all the automation I'd like to integrate in an ideal world. One of them was running accessibility tests. As this is a bit of an unknown subject to me, I thought the ideal time arose to learn more on this topic and not to just accept the vanilla response that Flash is accessible. ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/12/how-accessible.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/12/how-accessible.html Eclipse General Accessible Eclipse Flash Tools Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:40:02 +0000 ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/11/uml-tools-for-f.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/11/uml-tools-for-f.html Actionscript Eclipse Actionscript Eclipse Flash UML Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:50:23 +0000 Maybe you've guessed it but keeping with my black theme I've utilised my spare time to design a new set of Eclipse icons and splash screen. What I haven't had time for was writing some script to install these on different OS' but my guess is you will figure it out. http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/09/i-like-black.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/09/i-like-black.html Eclipse General Eclipse Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:58:18 +0000 Initially I wanted to do a complete write-up on what it would take to move your entire Flash operation away from Windows. How much fun that would've been. Instead I opted for a more mashed-up approach on ethical philosophies and how they relate to the workflow of building RIA's and Flash websites mmkay. http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/07/linux-and-flash.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/07/linux-and-flash.html General Ubuntu Flash General Ubuntu Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:13:45 +0000 FlexUnit4 alpha is looking pretty good. Using meta tags to create Tests and Suites and the addition of user defined tags, makes me think that I have to start including this in my own project workflow. I wonder how many Actionscripters actually use Unit tests. I'm sure there are a lot of Enterprise Flex developers but any pure Actionscripter takers?

[Update: Updated the link to FlexUnit]
]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/05/flexunit-4-alph.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/05/flexunit-4-alph.html Actionscript Flex General unit tests Fri, 15 May 2009 10:41:53 +0000 XSD4MXML tutorial post was like so 1999 'cause the boys over at FDT delivered the beta release 3.2 with MXML support the 13th of March already. I can't keep up these days. What are you waiting for? Get it now!  ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/05/fdt-32-with-mxm.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/05/fdt-32-with-mxm.html Actionscript Eclipse FDT Flex General FDT Flex MXML Fri, 01 May 2009 11:18:05 +0000 For those of you who want to get some MXML support in FDT I thought I'd share this little tutorial. I can't take credit for this as it was the guys from FDT who pointed this out at recent visit to LFPUG and Adobe MAX Milano way back in 2008. Lets hope we get FDT to support MXML natively so this isn't required but until then here goes. A small caveat, this will probably not work in Flex 4 as I remember them removing the mx namespace for the framework. http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/03/xsd4mxml.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/03/xsd4mxml.html Actionscript Eclipse FDT Flex General Eclipse FDT Flex MXML Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:13:55 +0000 ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/03/creating-viewsrc.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/03/creating-viewsrc.html Ant Eclipse FDT General Ant Eclipse General Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:27:39 +0000
Music by Sibot (African Dope Recordings) ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/02/processing-part.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/02/processing-part.html Processing processing visual programming Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:22:39 +0000 ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/01/mxml-ant-asdoc.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2009/01/mxml-ant-asdoc.html Actionscript Ant Eclipse FDT Flex Actionscript Ant ASDoc Flex Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:02 +0000 ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/12/simple-colour-f.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/12/simple-colour-f.html Actionscript FDT General PixelBender Actionscript Flash PixelBender Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:31 +0000 DevGirl about AlivePDF, an AS3 API to save Flash content to PDF. The examples showed how to use a server-side script or using AIR. Hmmm...  this could be a nice little introduction into the world of FP10 me thinks. I haven't spend any time looking into the FP10 features but thought this could be fairly quick and easy to do... and it was!
]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/11/generate-pdfs-o.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/11/generate-pdfs-o.html Actionscript General Actionscript Flash Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:50:15 +0000 ]]> http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/10/fullscreen-flas.html http://www.wezside.co.za/blog/2008/10/fullscreen-flas.html Actionscript General Actionscript Flash Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:07:57 +0000