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December 19th, 2007

Flash Development on Linux

I’ve known about Eclipse for a LONG time and I even downloaded it once or twice and fiddled with it, though I couldn’t ever get myself to use it as other editors (my favourites are jEdit and Eric) were slimmer and did what I needed, recently I’ve been playing with Actionscript 3 (Flash development) and […]

Filed by Popeye at December 19th, 2007 under Nerdy, Linux, Flash, Flex, Actionscript 3
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December 14th, 2007

Flex FileSize… damn that’s big!

I’ve been having some fun with Flex/AS3 and have gotten to a pre-alpha stage with the project I mentioned in my previous post. It’s www.sailingvideos.org, I’m pretty close to scrapping it and writing all my components from scratch. Flex isn’t too bad to work with, though damn is there some filesize overhead! an empty project […]

Filed by Popeye at December 14th, 2007 under Flash, Flex, Actionscript 3
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December 7th, 2007

Smoking

I’m pretty much in awe of Francis Joyon, when he set his previous record some years back that Ellen Macarthur subsequently broke I was absolutely amazed (particularly so considering he was sailing what was designed as a fully crewed boat). After sadly wrecking the old IDEC on the rocks, he has built a new boat […]

Filed by Popeye at December 7th, 2007 under Sailing
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December 2nd, 2007

Flash/Flex Video stops just before the end

I’m working on a flash/flex video app and have had some trouble with the videoDisplay component thinking that it has finished when infact it has stopped just before the end (like a frame or 2), it really wouldn’t matter particularly for my app having the video missing the last couple of frames, though the problem […]

Filed by Popeye at December 2nd, 2007 under Flash, Flex, Actionscript 3
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