September 2008

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• Jobs

  Job Post: Bratys Development

  Virgil Cristea | 29.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Bratys Development searches for people that can fill the following positions :
  Flash / Flex - Developer (click here for details)
  Junior Java Developer (click here for details)
  Lead Developer (click here for details)
  QA Engineer (click here for details)
  QA localisation tester (click here for details)
  Senior Java Developer (click here for details)

• Air

  Adobe AIR 1.5 (”Cosmo”) Available in Flex SDK Nightly Builds

  Andrei Ionescu | 12.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Cosmo” is in the nightly builds of Flex SDK! The new AIR 1.5 contains:

  Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
  Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM
  Integration with Flash Player 10

  New Text engine
  Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
  Custom Filters and Effects
  3D Effects
  Typed Arrays updated
  Dynamic video streaming

  More about it on Mike Chambers blog.

• ActionScript, Debug, Events, How to, Testing

  Image Events Dispatch Order

  Andrei Ionescu | 12.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Yesterday I’ve been working with images: loading, resizing, removing, etc. I got into a challenging issue: I had to vertically position a label after an image resize - but a resize that is triggered by setting maxWidth and maxHeight keeping also the aspect ratio.
  I tried to get the new width and height after the resize [...]

• ActionScript, Debug, Errors, MXML, Web Service, xml

  HTTPService Requesting XML from FeedBurner Gets Parsed with XSL in IE Browser

  Andrei Ionescu | 10.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  These day I’ve been fighting with this issue: trying to get the Flexer XML feed from FeedBurner into a Flex application. As many of you may know FeedBurner serves the XML with an XSL and browsers that know XSL will parse it and display it in a nicer way that a simple xml.
  The problem is [...]

• Flash

  FlashPaper @ The End Of Its Life

  Andrei Ionescu | 09.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  FlashPaper is at the end of its life. Is official!
  As Adobe said when they bought Macromedia… FlashPaper is discontinued! So no more updates and no hope for Vista/IE7 version. They will still give support and for a period of time Adobe will even sell it.
  More about it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpaper/eod_faq/

• ActionScript, Flash, RIA

  New RIA on The Market - Pixlr

  Andrei Ionescu | 08.09.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  New Rich Internet Application is out on the market - Pixlr, a web based image editor, was launched on 17th of August 2008! The most interesting thing is that is created by one person and is by far the closest image editor to Photoshop. Pixlr has layers, filters, adjusments, brushes, etc.
  What can we say: WOW! [...]

• Flash

  Unveiling of Flash CS4 & Adobe Creative Suite 4 on 23rd of September

  Andrei Ionescu | 03.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Is official! Adobe will unveil their new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (including Flash CS4) on 23rd of September. Although this is not a release this shows us that Adobe CS4 is ready to be released very soon.
  You can see the unveiling watching Adobe’s special web broadcast clicking here and registering.
  Enjoy it!
  Links:
  http://www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant
  http://theflashblog.com/?p=431

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• Virgil Cristea: Int cannot store that value I needed. I do not think it is a floating point error as in debug I see...
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