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  1154 readersThe 360|Flex conference is coming up soon – March 8-10 in San Jose. It seems that John and Tom – the organizers – have everything ready to go except for one little item: getting a sponsor for the USB Thumbdrive that comes in the swag-bag. They offered it to me but it’s a little out

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  Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: Pattern Galleries vs Pattern Libraries

  13073 readersI read a post on Boxes and Arrows this week titled Are Design Patterns an Anti-Pattern? where Stephen Turbek outlines the pitfalls of pattern libraries. This got me thinking about a UIE talk a couple of months back where Stephen Anderson ‘vilified’ the set of RIA screen patterns Bill Scott and I published in 2009

• Hacking Robots for Fun and Profits

  990 readersJust got back from the Flash and the City conference in NYC. The conference was a smashing success! It sold out, and people were really impressed as far as I can tell based on the discussions on Twitter and at the actual show. Elad, Jesse, Kevin, and Jose all have a lot to be proud

• Arduino + Flash + Twitter API = Awesomeness Art hack presented…

  14045 readersArduino + Flash + Twitter API = Awesomeness Art hack presented at Digital Sizzle #6, a weekend hackathon held at Mozilla London where developers and artists compete to display their hacks in the Whitechapel Gallery: An interactive visualisation and game. The main application is built in Flash Adobe AIR using Starling and Stage3D. The application

• Understanding the Robotlegs Injector: The Robots are Running the Factory

  38787 readersWhen I first started using Robotlegs, I was mainly interested in Mediators, and I’d occasionally throw in a Command. Even though I set up the Injection mappings, I didn’t think too much about it except as something I had to do to make everything else work. The more I work with RL, though, the more

• Robots, lasers, explosions and Google Street View. Amazing…

  6143 readersRobots, lasers, explosions and Google Street View. Amazing Google maps mashup campaign from an insurance company (Flash 10!). [ ChaosInYourTown ]

• Frash project brings Flash to iPad via hack and compatibility layer

  2659 readersSo the news of the day (in regards to Flash on devices) is that the hacker: comex has managed to get Flash content running on iPad by leveraging the Android Flash runtime and some hacking. The videos look promising for the hacker and developer communities to gawk at, but it requires a jailbroken iPad and

• When to hack it

  1675 readersOftentimes while working on a Flex project I find myself needing to build something that the Flex framework doesn’t seem to support. I say, “doesn’t seem to support” because it’s not uncommon for me to discover, sometimes months later, that Flex does in fact support exactly what I needed only I couldn’t find the documentation

• Details of the johnnyA MediaTemple Hack

  5471 readersUpdate: MediaTemple directed me to another blog post with additional details. This highlights another problem with this incident. The information has been spread all over the place. While this blog post does give some good details, it still does not provide cleanup instructions. It simply says that all malicious files have been removed. I’m sorry

• Match Hack: Development Diary

  6005 readersIn between a few of my projects I decided I needed to build a simple game that I could get out to the app markets quickly. Sometimes you need a minor victory to like this to keep you motivated on a larger project. So I came up with an idea to reuse some graphics from