Maxim Kachurovskiy

Hello San Francisco!

Maxim — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:00:08 +0000

Just completed my relocation from Moscow to San Francisco. Weather is great and people are friendly.

Spark AdvancedDataGrid

Maxim — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:04:28 +0000

I have used the logic from Spark Tree to build AdvancedDataGrid based on Spark DataGrid and it seem to work nice:

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Since AdvancedDataGridcontains a few code and uses a lot of Spark Tree logic I’ve…

Sorting images by color

Maxim — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:11:43 +0000

Here is a quick example how to sort images by color.

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Basically I just sort images by hue of the major image color. The issue is how to get that color. I get some image pixels, clusterize…

Android USB driver

Maxim — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:14:29 +0000

If you plan to test the amazing new Flash Builder Android features and can’t install the USB driver for your phone – just install the PdaNet. It will smoothly put the driver in place and you will be able…

Pronto 4

Maxim — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:36:35 +0000

I’m happy to present the project I’ve been working on for the last 2 years.

Pronto is a Flex application available both on the Web and on the desktops. Click on the screenshots for the full-size…

FTheme.com launch

Maxim — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:50:55 +0000

FTheme.com is my new library that hopefully will make a small revolution in Flex 4 styling and skinning. New application look can be created in Notepad, loaded at runtime and change everything from application background bitmap fill to the…

Year summary

Maxim — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:41:15 +0000

It was a good year, thank you for reading this blog – hope it is useful at least sometimes :) Starting from the 20-th August 2010 when this blog was opened:

More than 2900 people came and read more

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Spark Tree on GitHub

Maxim — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:18:11 +0000

I’ve just uploaded Spark Tree component to the GitHub so if you’ve got some updates or bug fixes – please send pull requests :) Also the package is changed – now it’s com.sparkTree.

Download SparkTree.swc
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AMFPHP in convinient and reliable way

Maxim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:11:37 +0000

Remoting with AMFPHP greatly simplifies the client-server application logic. Now I’m going to simplify it’s usage. No responders, no listeners or clients. Just one call(...) and one callback function:

private function

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Flash Builder Buritto – code templates and content assist workaround

Maxim — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:32:35 +0000

Adobe has recently released a preview version of new Flash Builder – Buritto that has many great features including code templates. Here are my ActionScript code templates so far (download templates.xml to import):

commitProperties
createChildren
getterNoChange
getterSetterWithEvent

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