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Wordpress' Shortcode API is a really cool thing, and since I'm working on a Drupal site these days I've been looking for something similar. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything... There are some implementations out there but the ones I found and tested always come pre-bundled with specific tags and don't always provide an extensible and stable logic.
So I made mine!
This post is a techy one, so if you don't write AIR apps or if you think this wouldn't be enough to show off during coffee break I recommend something funnier. › Continue reading...
During the last couple of months I've been working on a free AIR app for a French community-based site called Weecast. Its purpose is to allow users to submit and/or buy screencasts about your favorite apps and languages (mostly Adobe's and Microsoft's, but also 3D ones', OS's and more).
Introducing the Weecast Player!
The app allows you to browse your videos, watch them (4 view modes), search for more, drop comments and stars... I think that's called an RIA, right? There's also an offline mode, so you can access all your stuff anytime. › Continue reading...
Using Google Chrome? Using Meebo? Annoyed by the ad at the bottom and the blog window when you log in?
I just wrote and published my first Chrome Extension - Meebo Cleaner, to clean that up!
Pretty simple code, nothing revolutionary here. Go get it and let me know what you think, or if you have suggestions/ideas...
Introducing my latest project: TW Paper, a simple iPhone/iPod touch wallpaper gallery+collection.
I played with MooTools a bit and did that. Useless, opensource, nerdy.
I also set up a gallery, so if you've got nice scrollbars that aren't here yet, send' em right away!
I was talking about it, here it is!
This class will come in handy every time you work with synchronous SQLite databases in an AIR project. It's a real-world implementation of the Dynam.ize utility I presented earlier... I will show you an example of how to work with it, with simple sub-classes. Let's go! › Continue reading...
Still while working on this app I was talking about earlier I realized I was quite used to working with PHP classes' Magic Methods, and more precisely the way it handles overloading. Those lovely __get, __set and __call methods are called whenever you try to access a property/method that is not explicitly defined, making your class dynamic. Of course you don't need this all the time, and it might even be dangerous, but it some cases that's simply perfect.
You can do that with AS3 if you extend flash.utils.Proxy, cool. But wait, no! Not cool! What if I wanted to extend something else? Nah, let's find something else... › Continue reading...
If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to apply a gradient on a Flex Label, well it is ; but that's not very straight forward... As I'm working on a app that requires this kind of glitter I decided to try and see what could be done.
I started with a basic ActionScript project (no Flex involved) and came up with this. Quite functional, could probably be optimized but my goal was actually a Flex component and I knew that was technically feasible. I then simply extended Flex's Label class and basically copied/pasted the logic into it. Just had to figure out which event to listen to and I was good to go...
Here's a demo app for your playing pleasure.
You may notice that in this example I embed the font so it looks nicer, but this is not mandatory...
All this is opensource (class+project) and you can grab it at my brand new Google Code dump: as3-bits. Help yourself.
As always, feedback welcome.
Quick news, good news. Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash is now possible, hell! Read more here and there.
Expect me to build stuff with it!
