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Tour de Flex

Karan Palan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:05:47 +0000

Tour de Flex is awesome! Tagged: Flex

Validating real/integer numbers in Flex

Karan Palan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:35:42 +0000

Written for: Flex Below is a short code to determine whether a number is real (floating). To find if a number is an integer, change the domain property in NumberValidator tag from “real” to “int”. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Alert; ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:TextInput id="myTxtInput"/> <mx:NumberValidator id="myNumberValidator" domain="real" [...]

AS3.0: Add one or more elements to the begining of an array

Karan Palan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:30:37 +0000

Written for: ActionScript 3.0 To add one or more elements to the begining of an array, you will have to use unshift method of Array class. Below is an example. var albums:Array = new Array("Natty Dread","Rastaman Vibration","Exodus","Kaya"); albums.unshift("Catch A Fire"); trace(albums); //Catch A Fire,Natty Dread,Rastaman Vibration,Exodus,Kaya Tagged: ActionScript, array

Bombay – (Rickshaw or Taxi) = Beautiful Bombay

Karan Palan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:02:00 +0000

I had the most pleasant ride to work today. The reason being – there were absolutely no god damn rickshaws or taxis on the streets of Bombay. The reason for that being – they had a stupid strike (The hardship of which will never be known). To see Bombay, devoid of rickshaws or taxis is unimaginable. [...]

Fastest way to shut down Windows OS

Karan Palan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:58:50 +0000

Tired of fucking waiting and waiting…. for Windows to shut down. Yeah, I do! Here’s a way which will shut down Windows completely in few seconds. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to open Windows Task Manager, click on Shut Down menu option and while pressing the Ctrl key, click on the Turn Off option. Now as you count 1…2….3….4…..5….System Shut Down [...]

Dynamically add element / attribute to a XML using E4X

Karan Palan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:31:11 +0000

Written for: Flex, ActionScript 3.0 To dynamically add element / attribute to a XML; assume that it already exists in the XML and using the .(dot) operator, pass a value to it. Here’s an example. Consider the following XML: var albumXML:XML = <tracks> <song tracknumber="1"> <title>Orgasm Addict</title> [...]

Sweet Dreams of Roy Buchanan

Karan Palan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:10:32 +0000

Love ya Roy! Peace.

Kinda makes you think……doesnt it?

Karan Palan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:19:48 +0000

hmmm…Thats easy!

Karan Palan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:50:02 +0000

Found this video on YouTube under the title – “The Art of Starting a Royal Enfield (1)”. Being a hardcore Enfield rider myself, I was expecting a kick start with a lot of back kicks thrown in for that extra punch. What I found in the end was really funny. Check it out. By the way, [...]

LHC – Ohh Yeah!

Karan Palan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:46:25 +0000

I know I’m delayed by a couple of days, but still considering the enormous nature of the project and the scientific significance I would like to say – “Collide those damn particles and lets see what we get!”