Cut the Drama. Flash is Here to Stay.

I really wish that Steve Jobs would quit misinforming the public. It amazes me that Apple and Adobe’s childish feud is even news worthy. I’ve had a number of people tell me that I should start looking for a new profession because HTML5 is the future and Flash is dead (link). All of them iPhone [...]

Live Blogging TC Code Camp VI

This is my first time attending the Twin Cities Code Camp and first impressions have been great! Here are the presentations I’ve attended so far today: Increasing your Productivity with Visual Studio by Jeff Klawiter I haven’t developed in Visual Studio for a number of years but this talk was still very engaging. Seeing all [...]

Live Blogging Overnight Website Challenge

Time is of the essence so this will be a quick post. Summary: Twelve teams of web professionals donating 24 hours of their time to build complete web solutions for non-profit organizations: Overnight Website Challenge. Our Team: The Mighty Polymorphin Power Rangers: Extra Awesome – link Our Non-Profit: The non-profit assigned to our team is [...]

Display TwitPic Images in Flex & AIR

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 [...]