http://www.neatfilm.com Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:54:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In AIR (Flex/Flash) application, syslog support might be very useful for QA/developers also can be helpful for end user as well. I wrote some fast code for my personal project Dailytasks on this (and another more complex SQLite database with transaction manager) during this long weekend. You can download source code ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2008/09/01/air-syslog-with-sqlite-source-code/ Execute statement Every statement has an associated connection object, a statement represents a single 'compiled' SQL statement. There're two methods to execute SQLStatement instance in AIR, one execute a single statement each time, another use .begin() .commit() to execute multiple statements, as a transaction. For SQLite engine, they both transaction, the ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2008/06/13/sqlite-notes/ Two years ago when ActionScript 3 introduced to Flash community, Flex 2 was the first citizen of next generation of Flash platform, before Flash CS3 released almost a year later (count in Flex 2 beta versions). I don't know how many percents of former Flash developers has already worked with ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2008/03/12/personal-thoughts-future-changes-in-flash-community-for-developers/ A post recalled myslef got frustrated last September, after several weeks honeymoon turning into Flex from Flash. No doubt some developers from Flex community not easy to understand what's the meaning when a Flash developer complaining (AS3 === AS3) = false, as the majority of Flex developers do not know too ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2008/01/20/flex-challenges-for-flash-ide-devleopers/ A simple Koch curve experiment in AS3, port from Java version. Koch curve discovered by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch in 1904. Origin Java code: Computer Graphics for Java Programmers by Leen Ammeraal and Kang Zhang You can download AS3 source code to try: koch.zip . http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/10/22/koch-curve-as3-experiment/ I picked up Cairngorm framework two weeks before as the requirements of my Flex projects changed for more flexibilities and Joe's MVC blueprint structure I used no longer enough. Another reason was the excellent example network monitor came with the release of Flex Builder 3 beta 2. Last week some ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/10/21/cairngorm-or/ Last year lots of Flash developers wouldn't think Flex 2 is suitable for web applications - longer loading time because of the size of Flex framework. Things changing at least recently, some big companies began to use Flex applications on their website officially, Yahoo!, Philips. I guess it partly because ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/09/23/flash-or-flex-or-both/ Well, to day I already coded real productive projects 2 month with Flex Builder 2. I began to feel bored. First of all, Flex builder 2 is not so mature product yet from a Flash developer's perspective (compare to Flash IDE). Flex Builder 3 suppose to be. Flex 2 is perfect ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/09/07/bored-to-code-in-flex-2/ I reinstalled my old D600 laptop with Ubuntu for server side coding/testing at home. Also I want to install Flash 9 player/debugger together. Firefox is supported very well from Adobe, it could install Flash 9 player the same way as Windows. I downloaded Flash 9 debugger player and installed it as ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/08/18/install-flash-9-player-together-with-debugger-in-ubuntu/ I'm working on a Flash application hard-coding with Actionscript 3. I used to make it in Flash CS3 (code with FlashDevelop of course). In the beginning everything looks perfect. With Flash CS3 I managed Sprite layers myself, I created lightweight buttons, labels, different kinds of data grids, radio buttons, comboBox, ... http://www.neatfilm.com/2007/07/29/rewrite-flash-application-with-flex/