http://www.bradywhite.net Flex and Life Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:35:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_359" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Rocketship Industrial Design"][/caption] Rocketship is an industrial design studio located in the heart of Provo, UT.  Rocketship has designed Provo Craft's Cricut, Philip's GoLite Blu, and the Jet Boil.  With Beth Robertson's designs, we were able to launch a new, clean version of their site in December ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/10/21/rocketship-industrial-design/ [caption id="attachment_355" align="alignleft" width="304" caption="Aspire - Product Designer"][/caption] Aspire has revolutionized the way youth sporting pictures are taken.  Providing a green screen allows the players and the parents to design their own posters, shirts, and even trading cards.  At Rain I was the primary Flex developer for Aspire's product designer.  The ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/10/19/aspire-poster-t-shirt-creator/ [caption id="attachment_286" align="alignleft" width="297" caption="Serve Your Ward, Post Your Job"][/caption] Serving in my church is a great way for me to volunteer my time and talents to help others. Recently my wife and I were called as the Employment Specialists in my BYU Married Ward. This past Sunday we launched a ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/10/18/98jobs-info-ward-employment-site/ [caption id="attachment_362" align="alignleft" width="255" caption="Photo Scaled 200% inside ImageWell. 50 dpi."][/caption] Custom book builders are great rich internet applications that we've made at Rain. One core component of custom book builders is allowing users to upload their own photos. The most common user error is uploading and using a ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/09/15/calculating-image-resolutions-in-flex/ After 32 hours, 13.4 miles of running, and 2 hours of sleep, I'm back from the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay of 2009.  Thanks to Chase & Lindsey Brammer, Kellie and I were invited to join their VIP team along with Brady and Nicki Brammer.  The other six teammates consisted ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/06/21/ragnar-run-eat-sleep-repeat/ Thanks to everyone that came to the Adobe Flex presentation at BYU.  It turned out great.  Many people learned what Flex can do and found solutions to ideas they had.  Thanks to Rain Interactive for sponsoring the event with Papa Johns Pizza.  Special thanks to the Web Startup Group for ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/03/10/adobe-flex-presentation-at-byu/ Today I downloaded the wordpress for iPhone app and I am currently writing this post from my iPhone. I am able to upload photos from my iPhone's photo library and make edits to existing posts. All I can say is wow and go download it yourself. http://www.bradywhite.net/2009/01/28/wordpress-for-iphone/ Adobe just produced Tour De Flex an AIR app that allows you to tour all of Flex's features.  Great for those who are curious about what flex can do.  For developers, this tool is great because it allows you to actually see the code to produce the feature that is ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2008/11/20/tour-de-flex/ For those of you who want HTML signatures using Gmail's web interface, there is a Firefox add-on that supports HTML signatures for multiple email accounts. Download Blank Canvas Gmail SIgnatures You must get an account with mozilla in order to download the add-on because it is an experimental plug-in. I haven't ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2008/10/14/html-signatures-in-firefox/ In doing some research on filters in SVG I came across some new information regarding SVG. The reason that they have upgraded/changed focus for the SVG format to FXG was triggered when developing Thermo. They started using SVG and then they realized how difficult (and eventually deemed impossible) ... http://www.bradywhite.net/2008/10/09/adobe-replaces-svg-with-fxg/