Dev by MX

Android – Restlet or how to have your client working and how to send params in a post request

zeflasher — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:13:11 +0000

When you are reading the title, well it seems to be a really easy task to be able to do a POST request with some parameters sent along… Well it is easy, but man it took me long to actually find this out. There is a Restlet documentation but it lacks a LOT of simple [...]

Android emulator – proxy and custom domain

zeflasher — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:41:27 +0000

So, I wanted to be able to use a proxy while developing my android app. Also I am using a custom domain set in my hosts files. Here I am using Charles, but any should do really. So in the Android emulator go in Settings>Wireless and networks>Mobile Networks>Access Point Name. You will see one named [...]

Android development – Remote calls the proper way.

zeflasher — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:01:35 +0000

Hello, I have started developing an android app and was looking for the best way to handle remote calls (as activities can be killed, … ) and found this really nice talk Google IO – Developing Android RESTFull apps This session is really, really good and gives a really good insight of how applications doing [...]

Installing USVN and migrating from old subversion server

zeflasher — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:18:13 +0000

So lately we changed server and although I’m using now Indefero (integrated git) to manage my projects I was in need of having subversion for all my old projects. I used to use svnmanager on our old server but wanted to give a try to another web interface. So I choose usvn USVN Installation Download [...]

Create Android application interface with some nice tools

zeflasher — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:15:01 +0000

I just came across a google code project android-ui-utils aiming at helping designer/developer to design their android application. There is 2 seperate application: Pencil for firefox, an already well know existing application. They have created the toolset for this app … or A custom web based application (Android Asset Studio) Might be helpfull for some…

ZamfBrowser and subversion

zeflasher — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:26:26 +0000

Just a quick one for the people that use ZamfBrowser and for myself (as a reminder) I’m playing with ZendAmf right now so I’ve downloaded and installed ZamfBrowser, and got a really weird behavior. I was able to get my gateway working, ie I could run my app and everything was fine, trying to access [...]

Flixel for Android

zeflasher — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:43:36 +0000

Recently I came across this post. Flixel has been ported to Android, so games (well a specific kind of game) should be easy to develop You can get the source here and read the tutorial here

webDU 2010 – Caleb Adam Haye – Continuous Integration

zeflasher — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:14:33 +0000

Session Detail To be discussed will be the overall concept of continuous integration, detailing the overwhelming benefits (and challenges) of employing a continuous integration strategy into your Flash Platform development paradigm, which transcends the build process into a science, rather than a black art. We will also cover concrete approaches to implementing continuous integration. Specifically, [...]

CPLUV is using Sphinx

zeflasher — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:39:57 +0000

Cpluv has done the switch for its search engine from Zend Lucene to Sphinx. It is actually a breeze to implement and work with Sphinx once you got to know how everything’s working When we choose the engine to be used instead of Zend Lucene, there were 2 finalist. SolR and Sphinx. We used sphinx [...]

webDu 2010 – Mike Downey – Casual Gaming, what developers should know

zeflasher — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:40:08 +0000

Another video of the webdu 2010 conference in Bondi Beach, Sydney. I’m sorry the battery of my nexus one died during the session, so you have only the first 40 minutes :/ Session Detail In this session you will learn about development, deployment, and distribution, leveraging multiple technology platforms. Mike will also talk about some [...]

WebDU 2010 – Michael Plank – Component Architecturel

zeflasher — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:21:28 +0000

Hello, I will be posting some videos of the webDU 2010 sessions. The first one is the component architecture done by Michael Plank Session Details Conventional game architectures enjoin you to use an inheritance based class hierarchy which often ends up in having huge type hierarchies and bloating base classes which you have to extend. [...]

CPLUV is live

zeflasher — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:14:56 +0000

Well after some crazy months of development through my company Shaperstudio Ltd I’m glad to tell that the new cpluv website is live. It will probably need some tweaks here and there in the next couple of weeks but the harder is behind us now For this project we’ve been using the Zend Framework. When [...]

Flash on IPhone using cross compiling :)

zeflasher — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:02:25 +0000

As Zwetan said on the FCNG mailing list, flash apps will be available on IPhone. The magic is cross compiling. You will create an application in AS3 and Flash CS5 will compiling the swf to native iphone app. How cool… Check those links: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Applications_for_iPhone:Developer_FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone http://onflash.org/ted/2009/10/source-to-4-flash-iphone-apps.php Read some more at Mike Chambers Blog

List’s Custom Cell Renderer and RadioButton

zeflasher — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:45:29 +0000

In the application I’m developing I need a panel with a list, listing companies. I have created custom cell renderer for this list. Each custom cell renderer has an instance of a RadioButton… So the first problem: Saying you have this list displaying 3 rows ( but have more ). You have selected the first [...]

Oscar this is the world, the world this is Oscar

zeflasher — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:46:06 +0000

The biggest event you can go to, better than any FOTB or Max… My first child is born… Oscar, 53cm, 3.480Kg, born the 22nd of November. He’s a lovely boy, doesn’t cry at all (except when he’s hungry of course) and smile a lot. He just loves life Oscar just couple of hours after the [...]

Flex – For the one who want to mess with gumbo

zeflasher — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:33:24 +0000

Yes, there is a svn with gumbo alpha out there. It’s here SVN GUMBO Thx to iteratif who pointed this out on the FCNG google list ++

ECMAScript 4 – Goodbye…

zeflasher — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:18:49 +0000

Yeah, you read it well… Forget about ECMAScript 4 and stuff you may have learned while using language based on its draft ( yeah for instance AS3, Javascript 2.0 ). The ECMAScript 4 has been reject in favor of small changes to ECMAScript 3.1. This has been decided at the Oslo meeting. Here are the [...]

Ressource – Pratique D’Actionscript by Thibault IMBERT go into print

zeflasher — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:23:49 +0000

Yes, finally! The book will be printed by Pearson. For now though, just in french. You should post comment here to thanks Thibault and to ask for an english version ( maybe if there is tons of people asking for an english version, Pearson will translate it in ) ++

Website – Bug Fix

zeflasher — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:50:56 +0000

Oooops. Thx to pedr that pointed out the bug regarding the captcha, where no field where actually visible for you to enter the code. You can now add comments without any problems. ++

Web Tool – Aviary is out in Beta !!!

zeflasher — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:44:32 +0000

Yes, finally it’s out. I’ve been waiting for this one for quite a while. For now there is only peacock ( pattern maker) and phoenix ( image editor ) available but it looks really promising. I will play with them tonight and will let you know. By the way I have 3 2 1 invitations [...]