Today, while checking a website I did heavy client side work – converting PSD’s to html, CSS and JavaScript, I checked everything on IE7. One of the most annoying things I encountered was that the colorbox overlay color was pitch black. On other browsers, such as Firefox or Chrome everything seemed fine and the overlay was in the correct opacity. However, I like fixing everything and found a very easy way to do so.…

Today, while browsing my feed in google reader, I found something very interesting. This link is a hardening guide for flash media server. For quite some time now I have been developing and consulting on flash media server advanced topics. I have been teaching students and consulting companies on issues regarding this great peace of software. Adobe seemed very silent about this product for some time, not publishing any new materials what so ever, so it was very nice to see this link.…

Well, I have been working on a very interesting project recently, really stretching flex to the limits I needed to set buttons, linkButtons, Labels and more components width to the width of the text inside them. Usually, flex does it for you, but the width was hardcoded in compile time and I needed to change the text and the width in runtime and resize the component according to that. I have written a nifty helper function for that.…

I have been using jQuery for quite some time now. Following a question on one of the many forums and discussions group I visit daily, I found that not many know that jQuery has a built in way to “listen” for an animation to end and then continue work. For instance, if I am using the slideDown effect, I can create a function that will only execute when the slide is finished.…

In a project I am working on with Flex and AS3 I needed to copy all of the object’s properties and accessors to another object. Because I didn’t want to hard code the properties for various reasons, I needed to write a function that will “crawl” the object properties and accessors and copy then to the new object. I created a static function that does exactly that: [as3] /** copies a source object to a destination object…

I have been working with YUI calendar for a couple of weeks now on a project. I found that it is highly customizable although the documentation are not always clear and you have to dig around the internet to find your answers. So, I am here to help. In this new website I have a multi-calendar where you can page forwards and backwards through the dates. The calendar is also showing and hiding according to a user click (see photo).…

This week I needed to work with My PC on a flex project. I usually stay away of the PC with flex projects, I’m used to working on the mac with these project, but I needed to work on the PC. While trying to configure the project in flex builder 3 (and with 4 as well), I stumbled upon a weird bug that made me scratch my head for a while.…

I have been working with git for a while now on my Ruby on Rails projects and client side (css, Html and JavaScript) projects. I haven’t moved completely in flex projects and other projects, but I do plan to in the near future, mainly because of the reason that you can integrate GIT into flash builder 4. But, that is not the point. This week I was working with a company on a client side project.…

As you know, I’m a web developerand I love learning new stuff and blogging about it here. My blog post for today is about access flex application through the SWFLoader component. Often you load flex applications through another flex application using the SWFLoader component. It’s not that common knowledge that you can actually access all of that application exactly the same way you are accessing your own application. What does that mean?…

Wish to know how to share a project with your team using SVN and Flash Builder 4? In this post I will show you just that!

But before watching my screencast, I wish to tell you something a bit personal. This is my first screencast in English, after quite a few in my native tongue language. so please excuse me if I stutter or swallow some of my words. I promise to keep getting better with time.

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