Adobe have created a great interactive overview of Flash for it’s tenth anniversary. The piece itself is a showcase for what the Flash player can now do, audio, video, and advanced interaction (make sure to give the world a spin with your mouse).
They do break two of the Vixiom design rules
Don’t use overly long [...]
In the first tutorial I showed how easy it is to pass data from Ruby on Rails to Flash via Flash Remoting, this tutorial will show that sending data objects back to Rails is just as simple. Backpack was one of the first apps to get people excited by Rails, I’ll be ripping off their [...]
Since Adobe decided to ignore us Mac stiffs – not like I’ve ever done anything for ‘em, I’ve only been buying Photoshop since version 3 – I’ve made my own quasi Flex work-flow with “the missing editor for OS X” TextMate.
BTW Photoshop 3 introduced layers which was their greatest innovation until Flex 2.0
Okay [...]
Ever since I’ve been using Rails I’ve missed one important tool from my webdev toolbox, Flash Remoting. I’ve been getting by with XML but it’s just not the same and it changes the way you approach things ("If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail"). Remoting can pass objects, arrays, strings [...]
My flash nerd dreams have come true! Midnight Coders have released WebORB for Rails.
There’s been a couple false starts with people trying to make remoting work with rails thankfully a company with lots of remoting experience took up the challenge (and passed with flying colors, AMF0 and AMF3 support all for free).
Most user created passwords are astoundingly weak (’12345′, ‘mypass’). How do you make them stronger? Don’t give them a choice!
Here’s how to validate a password in RoR to make sure it’s strong using a regular expression (regex).
In your model add a custom validate method (after the regular validation) that adds an error unless the password [...]
Found a great website historyshots.com selling information graphic prints. A perfect storm for design nerds.
ActionScript 2.0 biggest weakness is lack of support for regular expressions. This makes relatively simple things like formatting price (the American way) a bit of a chore. Here’s a solution for those not quite ready to make all their users switch to Flash Player 9.
function formatPrice(orgPrice)
{
orgPriceSpilt = orgPrice.toString();
orgPriceSpilt = orgPrice.split(”.”);
numString = orgPriceSpilt[0]
newString = “”;
index = [...]