Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in Flash, Flex, ActionScript or Adobe AIR. What is MN.swf Camp? A one-day event focused on connecting the local developer community and providing education on Flash Platform technologies. All for only $40! When is it? Monday, April 6, 2009 from 9:00am – 5:00pm How do I register? Go to http://mnswf.com/camp/ [...]
Registration Open for MN.swf Camp 2009
posted by Chris Black on March 5th, 2009 under AIR, Flash, Flex
Display TwitPic Images in Flex & AIR
posted by Chris Black on February 23rd, 2009 under AIR, ActionScript, Flex, Other
Problem: The TwitPic API does not currently support outgoing requests and the image source from amazon aws contains an AWS AccessKeyId, expiration time stamp, and signature. This would normally require a regular expression to rip the source JPG path out of the HTML. Ripping the source out of the HTML is a bit of a [...]
Error Loading Project – Missing Project Files
posted by Chris Black on February 22nd, 2009 under ActionScript, Flex
Problem: An SVN conflict caused the .flexProperites and .asProperties files to be deleted. This caused Flex Builder to prompt "Error Loading Project" with the message "A problem occurred when opening project "Your Project". Try quitting and restarting the application. If the problem persists, you might be using an unsupported project version, or your project files [...]
Skinning Flex Components – Part 1: CSS
posted by Chris Black on January 6th, 2009 under Flex
This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to desolve the myth that Flex 3 can't truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning and multiple class [...]









