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Find a great Flash/Flex development job easily
I just got a great new development job. Yay! I have to write this post to say how great dice.com is. Basically, you post your resume, then sit back and wait for the phone calls. I got many emails and calls, several interviews, and landed a job I̵...
Read files from a folder and create xml file with php
I recently did this for a flash mp3 player (I’ll write on that later), but it would work just fine for an xml photo gallery like the one shown here Basically what I was doing was creating quite a few mp3players, each with many songs, and didn...
(more) text effects with TweenMax
EXAMPLE This is an improvement on the technique used here This one deals with linemetrics, and solves the weakness of the other one (that it only works well with monotype fonts) Here’s the class code: Note – you must have the tweenMax lib...
Auto Resizing Text Area Component – Flex
Just to spread the word, there is a great article here with an AutoResizing TextArea component that seems to work well. I added one small thing to support resizing of htmlText too (see below). (add this code to the component) override public functio...
cool xml photo gallery with flex and PaperVision3D
This is an example of a photo gallery in Flex using papervision3D and a “sliced cube” effect for the transitions. The image data is loaded from an external xml file. Major credit goes to John Lindquist for the cool effect. Read his articl...
relative paths, HTML and embedded swfs
I recently had a need to load external jpgs into multiple swfs, which were embedded into an HTML page. The swfs were in sub-directories. The problem soon arose was this: Referencing relative paths from an swf that is not in the root folder (the same ...

