http://www.ubacoda.com/feed.xml http://www.ubacoda.com/RSS Feed en Feed Generator written by B.Walker http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=59 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=59 I am very proud to announce the release of my lastest iPhone app - Super 21 : BlackJack.I have been working pretty hard lately and have ... 2011-10-31 19:47:50 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=58 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=58 Hi everyone, just wanted to share this video of my music creation app : Tones. Check it out.View on youTube... 2011-10-30 20:48:37 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=57 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=57 mp3 to caff# /usr/bin/afconvert -f caff -d LEI16 [mp3_input_file] [caf_output_file]Pretty straightforward, huh?caff to aif to mp3# /us... 2011-10-28 22:04:05 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=56 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=56 This morning I woke up to the horrible news that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has died. At first I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Twitter... 2011-10-05 19:42:05 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=55 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=55 Now, I don't normally shed my opinions in the way I'm about to, but the heralds of Twitter are shouting about the deathly demise of Flash, a... 2011-09-22 09:38:09 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=54 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=54 TumbleBee video is now on youTube. Enjoy.... 2011-09-11 22:49:14 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=53 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=53 I had a really pleasant surprise today when I just happened to stumble upon a great little text editor called Sublime Text. Sublime Text 2 i... 2011-09-08 02:02:03 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=52 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=52 Tumble Bee 1.1 It's been a busy month, but at last I have managed to get the first update for TumbleBee for the iPhone and iPod Touch on th... 2011-08-24 21:12:12 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=51 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=51 I found a situation where I wanted to totally reset a remote repository and although deleting it and then recreating it using --bare usua... 2011-08-06 05:30:09 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=50 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=50 I was asked the other day how to do the "touch" command in the command prompt on a Win machine to create a new file.Anyone who uses th... 2011-05-29 04:44:17 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=49 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=49 For those who haven't heard about Joyent and Node.js, you should definitely take a look. This has got to be one of the best things to happen... 2011-03-25 03:23:58 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=48 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=48 Setting up a git remote on Dropbox is great for backing up and sharing projects with other people. Here's how to get started.Getting a... 2011-03-24 04:36:51 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=46 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=46 Here's a post I've been meaning to write for a while but never got round to it. Let's get right to it.1. Getting Set UpFirst... 2011-01-25 07:20:53 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=45 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=45 I have been doing some looking around and to be honest there isn't much that I have found useful in regard to graphics optimization for the... 2010-12-24 05:33:13 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=43 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=43 Dynamic classes in AS3 are a cool feature of the language. They allow you to add properties to the dynamic class at run time, which is som... 2010-11-29 23:45:29 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=42 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=42 Just wanted to post a quick link here and say thank you to the guys at Ansca for giving me the opportunity to be interviewed about my iPho... 2010-10-30 04:05:11 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=41 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=41 For the longest time now, many ActionScript developers have dreamt of using their skills to build iPhone applications, without having ... 2010-09-20 05:45:09 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=40 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=40 'Tumble Bee' has been on the iTunes store for a few weeks now, but I'm am only just now getting round to posting about it here. ... 2010-09-03 12:59:08 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=39 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=39 I came across something that really interested and surprised me today. There I was coding happily for one of my latest projects in which I... 2010-08-04 02:12:58 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=38 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=38 For a while now I have been using Firefox because.. well it's simply brilliant. However I always have found that it sometimes moves like a... 2010-07-24 11:31:22 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=37 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=37 I've been playing around with a little Ruby on Rails recently and while trying to connect to my MAMP development databases, I came across th... 2010-07-11 05:02:51 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=36 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=36 Today, there I was, sitting at my desk working hard on a project involving loading images into a ActionScript constructed galler... 2010-06-23 06:11:51 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=34 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=34 I've been working a lot in PHP lately and almost always to connect to a mySQL database. I'm used to working in Terminal and the command ... 2010-05-24 01:11:56 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=33 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=33 I wrote a post a while back about loading fonts at runtime. Nothing there has really changed, but I did want to clarify one thing on here.... 2010-05-11 03:27:29 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=32 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=32 Well, this has really bugged me for a while now... I've been using an older version of the Flex 4 SDK until recently and have never had this... 2010-05-08 17:43:39 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=31 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=31 This is a topic I have long since intended to write about, but never got round to it. Well, anyway... trace statements in flex/flash are s... 2010-04-30 00:57:05 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=30 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=30 Of late, I haven't been posting much on here because I am a little bogged down with work right now. I'm working on a few projects at the... 2010-04-20 06:09:33 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=29 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=29 As you may have guess I love Mac. As a programmer, I don't always appreciate everything apple turns out, but I believe that Apple supplies s... 2010-03-25 02:39:27 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=28 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=28 Today is an exciting day. I received an email from Adobe saying that the new Flash Builder 4 is just on the horizon and I have received ... 2010-03-24 02:02:20 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=27 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=27 AMFPHP is great if you want to connect to a database, mainly because the data you send is converted to binary making it's probably the f... 2010-03-06 02:43:56 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=26 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=26 For anyone making applications using ActionScript 3.0, SharedObject is an absolute must! It allows data to be stored inside the flash play... 2010-02-16 06:04:06 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=25 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=25 Using the Flex Framework is great tool to have if you know what you're doing. Sadly, not everyone has the time to put in the extra man hou... 2010-02-15 00:54:09 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=24 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=24 Passing arrays between pages can be a useful thing to know, particularly when you feel data is a little too long to stick inside a url and... 2010-02-12 05:58:43 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=23 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=23 Today I cam across an interesting problem while working with the new Flex 4 SDK. I kept getting the following error.Warning: 'applicat... 2010-02-07 04:16:48 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=22 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=22 Ok, so this week I have been playing around with events and building all kinds of useless applications... and all while trying to further ... 2010-02-05 15:19:45 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=21 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=21 This is just to let you know that I have updated the DigitalClock class that I posted a li... 2010-01-26 08:57:45 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=20 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=20 Even though HTML is not a programming language, but rather a markup language, it sometimes amazes me how much HTML has to offer. Just today,... 2010-01-24 02:38:47 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=19 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=19 Something as simple as putting the time on your site shouldn't be a difficult task and so I thought I would share a quick class with you t... 2010-01-21 04:10:47 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=18 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=18 If you have ever written a program that connects to a database using PHP, then there may have been times when you wanted to find the next ... 2010-01-12 14:52:00 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=17 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=17 One of the painstaking things about creating swf files is embedding large font files which often end up bloating your flash movies and causi... 2010-01-05 09:53:51 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=16 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=16 How often have you had to make a photo gallery or something else that requires an index to be traversed? I know that I have come across th... 2009-12-29 05:49:39 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=15 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=15 There's a lot to be learnt from simple reviewing the basics of programming on occasion, as my recent experiences have shown. Today, I would... 2009-12-26 04:15:23 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=14 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=14 Merry Christmas one and all! It's the time for gift giving and I have one that may ... 2009-12-25 06:00:00 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=13 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=13 At the time I began learning ActionScript in Flash, which is probably where most of us start, Flex was not something I even considered. At... 2009-12-17 00:35:34 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=12 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=12 I wrote a post a few weeks back about the new Apple Magic Mouse and said that if I ever got one of my own, I would write about my experien... 2009-12-14 01:15:30 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=11 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=11 Compared to AS2 parsing XML in ActionScript 3 is a dream, since it uses E4X (ECMAScript for XML) which is a programming language extension t... 2009-12-03 04:27:03 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=10 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=10 HacKeD-By-EsCoRt-61------------------------------------------------------------------------I have found that being able to parse XML is ... 2009-11-30 01:56:20 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=9 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=9 This post is purely to list a few tmbundles that I use daily when coding. For anyone who hasn't got these yet, I really recommend you check ... 2009-11-24 02:35:10 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=8 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=8 As some may have already gathered, I am actually programming this blog myself. The main reason is that I think that I can learn a lot from d... 2009-11-22 07:03:46 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=7 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=7 I do almost all of my coding in what I believe is the best text editor currently on the planet, and the best thing since sliced bread - Te... 2009-11-16 12:13:56 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=6 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=6 I have decided to share a class with you that I recently developed for an ActionScript project that required a grid layout of MovieClips. Ma... 2009-11-14 16:16:16 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=5 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=5 I have to admit that I am a very big fan of Apple. Anyone who owns an Apple computer will probably comment on how reliable they are. Howev... 2009-11-06 00:18:04 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=4 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=4 I'm still very much at the beginning of learning PHP and while programming this blog, I came across a wonderful PHP function that can be use... 2009-10-26 01:07:57 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=3 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=3 The ability to check an array in php and see if the items it contains reoccur somewhere else inside the array is something that comes in h... 2009-10-17 04:07:54 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=2 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=2 Sometimes it can be a little difficult to get the specific "child" you want in ActionScript 3 by calling its name directly. Also, the use of... 2009-10-14 02:20:48 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=1 http://www.ubacoda.com/index.php?p=1 With the introduction of the Flex 4 SDK (Gumbo), it is now possible to import FXG files into your ActionScript and MXML projects. In this e... 2009-10-12 12:58:53