Category Archives: Flash

Looking for Flex work in New York?

Tim let me know that massify.com are looking for a Flex/Flash developer.
Company: massify.com
Job Title: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Description: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Massify is a community driven site that brings film creatives and
movie buffs together in the pursuit of great film; we’re using the
power of the web to transform the way films are made – and, in [...]

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Flex, Flash, and Ruby hourly billing rates

HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]

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Yahoo! releases new Flash and Flex components

Three new components for Flash and seven for Flex. The AutoCompleteManager and ColorPlaneAndSliderPicker for Flex look particularly useful.
There are other color pickers out there, but a lot of the others sit inside a Panel or have some other extra visual elements and functionality you might not need. A good component should do one thing very [...]

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Stress testing AMF

Aaron has a series of posts on developing a system for stress testing AMF.
The setup: AMF Stress Testing – Flex, Ruby, JMeter.
The screen cast: Stress Testing AMF Gateway Screen Capture
The results: 37 Million (requests in), 9 hours.
That’s pretty amazing.
The next morning, we had the Live Search team from M$ asking us how the hell we [...]

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How not to organize a FLA

I’ve seen some disorganized FLA’s before but this project I just took over takes the cake. I present it to you now with it’s 1000+ frames and 100+ layers of flashacktackory glory,…
women will cry, children will scream, grown men will wet themselves,…
the worst FLA EVAH!!!

Click the image to experience it in full.
It’s actually quite beautiful [...]

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Introducing ActionSnip

My new year’s resolution is to organize my ActionScript snippets, so I made a website to do just that actionsnip.com.
I know yes another snippet site, but none of the others highlight ActionScript properly. And because I don’t only collect snippets but blog posts about ActionScript as well there’s a feature called scraps which lets you [...]

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Hacking attachment_fu to work with Flash/Flex uploads and crop square images

Rick Olson’s attachment_fu is my favorite file upload plug-in because let’s you use three different image manipulation tools [rmagick, mini-magick, image science] and storage options [file system, database, amazon s3]. However it doesn’t yet support two features I use on every CMS I build, Flash/Flex file upload (images will upload but won’t be resized) and [...]

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Two new ways to load data into Flash

SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]

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Hints of big AMF news this month

From Ted (on flex) and Ryan Stewart.
Most are guessing AMF will be open sourced, anything that makes AMF more popular will be good news.

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Sorting Images with a Flex Tile Component

This is a test for an image manager component that I’m building. The final version will have an upload feature, and when you sort the images they’ll hook up with their model in Rails using acts_as_list to save the sorting in the database. Right click the swf below to view source.

I’ve built something similar in [...]

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