http://jacwright.com/blog Flex, AIR, PHP, etc. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:06:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been invited to speak at 360|Flex this year and am very excited. I will be presenting a level 400 (100 is beginner, 400 advanced) topic entitled Advanced ActionScript APIs. I'll be talking about how to make your own advanced APIs. We'll go in-depth on using custom metadata and we'll ... http://jacwright.com/blog/84/360flex-here-i-come/ I'm taking the big leap. Again. I'm leaving employmentship and going out on my own. Today is my last day working for mediaRAIN. Suck. I'm planning on partnering with a friend, Jake Hilton, to provide heavy Flex development for local companies and media firms. We're both top in the state in ... http://jacwright.com/blog/83/taking-the-big-leap/ mediaRAIN Is by far the best company I have ever worked for. I absolutely love the environment and the people here. We get work done, we have fun, we play foos ball and computer games together, and we're doing some way cool Flex/Flash projects all the time. All the people ... http://jacwright.com/blog/81/mediarain-is-hiring/ Do you ever go back and look at code you wrote and think, "man, that's pretty cool. I can't believe how nice that turned out." I went back and wrote up some very minimal documentation on using AIRActiveRecord on my post about it and remembered how cool it is. True, more ... http://jacwright.com/blog/80/airactiverecord-is-cool/ Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) has support for creating and using SQLite databases through the use of the SQLConnection class in the flash.data package. Using this package you can store a database on a user's hard drive and even name it with any extension you'd like (registering your app with that ... http://jacwright.com/blog/71/using-in-memory-databases-in-air/ I wrote about an Active Record implementation for the Adobe Integrated Runtime using it's SQLite database functionality. I put up all the code on Google Code under the name AIR Active Record. Please check it out, let me know of bugs or features, or better yet, submit fixes and add-ons. ... http://jacwright.com/blog/79/air-activerecord-is-open-source/ I have to admit, it took me awhile to understand why anyone would want to open source their software. I understood perfectly well why I would want to use it, but as a developer who makes money from writing software I assumed you don't make money writing open source software, ... http://jacwright.com/blog/78/why-open-source/ A while back I read a couple of blog posts about the slowness of using uint and int to iterate through for-loops. I needed to do some testing for a little project today and found this is false. When using the "i" variable in for(var i = 0; i < length; ... http://jacwright.com/blog/77/dont-use-number-to-iterate-over-for-loops/ Flex 3 gives us a great new feature, custom metadata tags. Now, I know you could actually use custom metadata in Flex 2, but you would have to add "-keep-as3-metadata MyTag" to every single project that utilized these custom tags. In Flex 3, if you add "-keep-as3-metadata MyTag" to a ... http://jacwright.com/blog/72/using-your-own-custom-metadata-in-as3/ I don't think there is a better open-source blog engine on the market than WordPress, but why is it so painful to update it? You have to back up the database, download the files, copy over the config file, themes, uploads, and any other stuff you need to the new ... http://jacwright.com/blog/76/why-is-wordpress-so-easy-to-install-so-painful-to-update/