Command line shortcuts Mac OS X

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 [...]

Why You Can’t Work at Work

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

iPhone applications built with Flash

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

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

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 [...]

Retweeting private Tweets

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

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

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 [...]

Actionscript dispatch event fails and solution.

The Problem:
A event too close to the instantiation of an object is not being fired, I believe the speed of the code execution is too fast for the listener to be able to register for the event.
Lets take a look at the following class to understand the issue.
ActionScript:

package application.views
{
 
   import flash.display.Sprite;
   import flash.events.Event;
 
   public [...]