Adobe Student Rep for RIA
Yesterday I was welcomed as an Adobe Student Rep for Rich Internet Applications. I am excited to get the Flex community going at BYU and educating other students about what Adobe Flex is and what an RIA is. Since I do this for work, I find it is easy to share my passion and my love for it with others.
I created a user group for BYU students. If you are a … Continue Reading
Photoshop.com is the solution for online photo storage, photo back ups, and basic image editing in one location. Photoshop.com hooks into all my facebook and flickr photos and allows me to make touch ups like remove red-eye. Within minutes I had uploaded an album of pictures and had edited them. I was then able to share this album with friends and make it public at http://satara.photoshop.com
Photoshop.com features:
Craigslist Desktop Application was released by Cobalt Fire Software. This application solves all the unusable elements about Craigslist. CLDesktop improves the design of Craigslist and utilizes its search features better. You can save your searches and refer back to them.
Download CL Desktop
(Available for both Windows and Mac OS X)
http://www.cldesktop.com/
Grant Skinner created an amazing regular expressions tester which is available as a web application or as a desktop air application.
This application allows you to create regular expressions and then test them on the fly. I highly recommend downloading this application for testing your regular expressions. I used this to successfully debug some regex parsing errors taking an SVG into flex.
Google Insights reveals that Utah searches the most for “adobe flex,” “flex 3,” “flex 2,” and “flex builder.”
My buddy Bryce Barrand found that Orem is the Flex Capitol of Utah
My buddy John Anderson discovered that Utah is also #1 in search for web technologies such as PHP, CakePHP, MySQL, and Linux.
Utah is definately one of the tech capitols of the United States.
Today I paid the $150 and took the Flex 2 certification test. I passed and am now an ACP – Adobe Certified Professional (add that to my Flash MX 2004 Certified Developer, MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) and MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist) certifications).
Overall I found the test to be challenging. I wouldn’t take it without sufficient preparation. Here are my Flex 2 study preparation tips:
Today at work we rediscovered the Flash / Flex font size limit of 127px.
We are creating an RIA that needs the ability to scale down a large SVG to a web editor and then scale it back out for a print-ready SVG. Flex would take a 300 px font, convert it to a 127 px font, and then scale it down. This caused our textfields to be very small and inconsistent.
At work we ordered a Inspiron 530S as an upgrade to my previous machine. Dell tech support stated that the system would be able to support dual monitors with an extended desktop.
Here’s what happened:
Once the Inspiron arrived, we purchased a PCI Nvidia 5500 GeForce MX card. This NVidia card overpowered the ATI Radeon 2400 Pro due to a setting in the bios that gives preference to PCI over PCIe. So in short, I could never get both video cards to play together. Once I removed the NVidia card from my computer, the ATI Radeon 2400 started … Continue Reading
When attempting to load external compiled css swfs that have an embedded font into my flex application I was getting this error: Unable to load style(SWF is not a loadable module). This is reported as an official bug on adobe’s site at: Enable Local App to load RunTime CSS.swf from Server
To solve this, you require two things.
Regardless if this is a bug, the host server still needs a crossdomain policy at the root of the domain. Here’s an example crossdomain.xml policy.
The next problem is that you cannot load external compiled swfs … Continue Reading
For anyone that is confused about whether or not it is legal to use your neighbor’s wireless internet access point (router), please read this. It is illegal. After being annoyed out of my mind by an acquaintance claiming that it is legal to use your neighbor’s wireless access point if it is unsecured, I did one google search to find this:
Is It Legal to Use Open Access Wi-Fi Internet Connections?
He claimed that the “Internet Privacy Act” made it legal to use your neighbor’s wireless access point if it wasn’t secured. Too bad the “Internet Privacy … Continue Reading