Helmut Granda
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Command line shortcuts Mac OS X
March 9, 2010 - 3:26 pm
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Ctrl + A: Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + E: Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + L: Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command
Ctrl + U: Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the [...]
Make Permanent Aliases on MAC OS X
March 9, 2010 - 3:23 pm
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command line:
open ~/.bash_profile
add as follows
alias name=path
example:
alias zf=/usr/local/ZendFrameworkCli/bin/zf.sh
if you need to pass a parameter where you need to escape characters or spaces wrap the path in quotes as follows:
alias projects=”cd /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs”
Why You Can’t Work at Work
March 2, 2010 - 3:58 pm
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As agencies get bigger and deadlines shorter it becomes harder to work at work. Some people even opt to work away from the office during crunch time due to the many distractions that are created at work.
SMW Part 04 Crowdsourcery Potions 101
February 2, 2010 - 11:29 pm
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iPhone applications built with Flash
February 1, 2010 - 11:16 pm
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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
January 27, 2010 - 3:43 am
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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
January 4, 2010 - 5:29 pm
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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
December 7, 2009 - 12:15 am
Tags: Kohana, PHP, ZendFramework
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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
December 2, 2009 - 5:58 pm
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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
December 1, 2009 - 2:03 pm
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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 [...]