Peter Velichkov's Blog

Embed Font in Flex4 Actionscript Project

Peter — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:19:58 +0000

A quick tip for all not seeing their embeded fonts when compiling pure AS project with Flex SDK 4: [Embed(source="assets/fonts/my-cool-font.otf", fontFamily="CoolFont", fontWeight="normal", mimeType='application/x-font', embedAsCFF='false')] private var MyCoolFont:Class; Notice the embedAsCFF=’false’, this is the most important part. Basically when not using Spark Text Components (which are based on Text Layout Framework) you need this option. In [...]

VMware Player / Workstation Mouse Grab Input Focus Bug

Peter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:47:09 +0000

To fix the recent bug with VMware Player 2.5.3 and Workstation 6.5.3 Build 185404 under Karmic Koala Ubuntu just paste this line in your console before launching vmplayer/vmware: export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes you may also modify the VMware starting script so you don’t have to export it every time.

Papervision3d – ERROR: lookAt error

Peter — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:33:25 +0000

If you get this error on each frame then you have probably moved the camera to the same position as the object (camera.z = 0). Change it a bit and the error should be fixed.

Custom Skinnable Slider Component for Adobe Flex 3

Peter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:37:48 +0000

First of all let me apologize for not blogging in a while but I’ve been working on couple of interesting projects after which it was time for deserved vacation on the BlackSea’s beaches. Anyway I needed a better looking horizontal slider for one of the projects and all of my googling got me nothing reasonable [...]

MDADM RAID Failed After Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04

Peter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:37:03 +0000

With no surprise the update from Interpid Ibex to Jaunty Jackalope was not as easy as I hoped. After booting the fresh 2.6.28 kernel I was welcomed with “Press enter for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)” and errors when trying to mount my RAID0. After some investigations found that the devices are now named [...]

Seagate 7200.11 BSY State Data Recovery

Peter — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:58:51 +0000

One not-so-beautiful morning I woke up just to find out that my Seagate 7200.11 500GB hard drive is not detected from my BIOS. Unfortunately it was a well know problem which have three solutions: Replace the hard drive with new one from where you got it and lose your data Send it to Seagate for [...]

WordPress Video Galleries with NextGen and jQuery

Peter — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:36:13 +0000

For one of my recent WordPress projects I needed an easy way for the client to organize and display videos. Unfortunately my hope that NextGen Gallery plugin, which I already used for the images, will do the trick vanished after couple of clicks and I started googling for a solution. Since neither google nor Worpdress [...]

FLARToolkit, Papervision3D and the World of Augmented Reality

Peter — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:14:12 +0000

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on couple Augmented Reality (AR) projects for row27 Studios including the newly released “Oski on your Desk” mini site dedicated to the Californian Golden Bears’ mascot Oski. It was quite interesting to see Papervision3D‘s superpowers combined with FLARToolkit with all the limitations and difficulties connected with [...]

Papervision3D: Getting Started with Adobe Flex (Screencast)

Peter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:42:06 +0000

After completing my personal website I started considering the idea of recording some video tutorials and as a result I have just done my first Papervision3D screencast. One thing I am very pleased with is the technical part of this task. Since I’m not a big fan of Camtasia and other propriatery software this time [...]

MooTools vs JQuery vs Prototype vs YUI vs Dojo Comparison Revised

Peter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:10:24 +0000

Update (02-03-2009): Recently things are going a bit beyond the healthy conversations and various people are taking the whole “which-is-the-fastest-framework” idea way too seriously. The most important thing in any benchmarking process is not to compare apples to oranges, which unfortunatelly happens too often. After jQuery adopted Sizzle (a selector engine) many people started comparing [...]