Helmut Granda
learning through interaction
iPhone applications built with Flash
Feb 1st
If the mountain doesn’t come to you, then you must go to the mountain. A lot of people talking how Flash is dying but it is nice to see how at least Adobe is helping current Flash Developers to use Flash CS5 to create applications for iPhone, iTouch and iPad.
Use SVN with FDT
Jan 27th
Quick way to set up a SVN Repositroy in FDT.
Instructions
Open the SVN Repository Exploring Perspective
Add an new SVN Repository
Return to the FDT Perspective
Select the Project within the Flash Explorer that you wish to link to the new Repository
Scroll down to Team and Select Share Project
Choose SVN from the Share Project dialog box
Choose the Repository from the supplied list
Enter [...]
Boarding Pass Fail from Delta
Jan 4th
Tyler Thompson had a very discomforting experience with the Delta Boarding passes and he went ahead and took the time to make different designs that on his point of view meets the requirements of the customers.
Here you can see the first design Tyler did:
And here you can see a Delta boarding pass similar to what [...]
From Kohana to ZendFramework in about 30 minutes
Dec 7th
I am pleased to say that it took me only about 30 minutes to transfer a basic site writte on Kohana to the ZendFramework, both frameworks make it easy to switch between each other. For one thing you can use the ZendFramework Library in Kohana (although I haven’t done it myself people declare is rather [...]
RobotLegs and Flash IDE CS4 Injection
Dec 2nd
So you heard of the RobotLegs framework and downloade their demos so you could compile them on your own computer but the only thing that you have available is CS4, not a problem you can still use the framework and I’m going to update the “Hello Flash” demo to show you how. After this article [...]
Optimizing SWF files with Flex Optimizer
Dec 1st
I found a reference to optimizing SWC files with Flex Optimizer and I figured I would run some tests through SWF files and see what effects it had in it.
To my surprise the Optimizer tool did optimize the SWF files but just by a few bytes:
Test 1:
…_concept1_v1_alt.swf (56569 bytes)
…_concept1_v1_alt_optimized.swf (56456 bytes)
Test 2:
…600_Flash_v1.swf (38164 bytes)
…600_Flash_v1_optimized.swf (38127 [...]
Retweeting private Tweets
Nov 24th
So now that you are part of the “VIP” crowd and you are one of those special friends that is allowed to see your friend’s private tweets, let me ask you. Is it acceptable for you to ReTweet something that is has been marked as private? After all it was private to start with but [...]
YourPay some common errors and solutions
Nov 22nd
When working with YourPay service there some small issues you might run into and so I can remember in the future I am listing them here.
Fraud issue
If hit the server several times for testing you might be tempted to hit it with the same amount but remember that even though for you they are different [...]
Getting UPS Rates with PHP fixing small issue
Nov 22nd
There is an great class in Google Code written in PHP that works as a wrapper to the UPS API, I started using it about a year ago and never had issues with it since I was using it with Flash/AMFPHP/PHP, but now that I am working with a new shopping cart where I need [...]