Javascript: form submit is not a function SOLUTION

October 17, 2009

Working on some rich form in Flash  that integrates in with Aweber via ExternalInterface and javascript, what’s odd is worked fine, after updating, ran into that odd error, alerting showed that I was talking to the form, but calling submit function failed.
Solution was to rename the submit button in that form to submit2 as [...]

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Optimized XOR Cipher Encryption in ActionScript 3

October 11, 2009

Been wanting to try implementing a XOR cipher for awhile,   a very simple cheap to implment encryption, that actually has a rich history dates back  to paper and teletype and world war II (as a one-time pad).
It can be used for anything that can be encoded into a string, be it across the wire, [...]

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AdobeMax and FITC Unconference Day1 Review, two good conferences at the same time and place.

October 6, 2009

Despite missing the morning yesterday at AdobeMax, it was an awesome day. I’m really blown away by how much the community has grown and changed.
There were somewhere between 200-300 in the room on multitouch with Flash.  A decade ago multitouch was still in the elite halls of academia, now it’s on the border of being [...]

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AdobeMax2009: Flash CS5 outputs iphone apps!!!! (holy shit!)

October 5, 2009

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/
The forthcoming beta of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 incorporates the ability to create an iPhone application. You have access to nearly all the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 APIs. For example, you can use APIs such as RTMP, Remote Shared Objects, and AMF as well as AIR APIs like SQLite and filesystem access. For [...]

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AdobeMax: Flash Player 10.1…is awesome, just released!

October 5, 2009

There is a huge amount of new stuff in the just released on the labs, I assume will be in the AdobeMax presentations.
Here’s the outline of new features (bolded are my favorites)

Support for Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm webOS , and Symbian S60
Support Windows7 and OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Global error handler
Globalization [...]

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TIP: Wrangle those Clients by Run Multiple Skype Accounts with a single line “/secondary”

October 1, 2009

One of the best ways to be productive is to manage your communications, including sandboxing personal from work , or client to client-especially when your work is filled with the rapid turnover of contractors.  It’s critical so you can spend time with friends without being distracted by contractors, and vice versa.
Skype is a great [...]

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Weirdness and Beer on the FITC Unconference Room @ Adobe MAX 2009 Schedule

September 22, 2009

The FITC schedule has just been posted, and it looks awesome!  Except I look a lot like my keyboard…I don’t think I’ve fallen asleep at the keyboard for years so this must be an old picture.
I was there last year and there were a ton of great presentations and sadly very poorly attended due to [...]

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Box2DAS3 PhysTest.swf not working with FDT / Flex *FIX*

September 17, 2009

Have a project that needs Box2DAS3, but checking out the latest and using it with FDT but the  Main.as which output PhysTest.swf just sat there ghostly and frozen,
eerily everything in suspended animation, no compiler errors and the same file in FlashCS3 FlashCS4 compiled it fine.  After diggging found the answer here (big thanks to nimodo).
How [...]

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Bandwidth Tests: EC2 vs CloudFront vs Jumpline vs Bluehost

September 15, 2009

Started on a video project, and wanted to check how the various sites I had access to compare against each other. I was surprised  at the results. At least in Los Angeles, EC2 wasn’t actually appreciably slower for my purposes than CloudFront, and actually downloaded slightly faster (!?).  Bluehost actually was significantly faster to download [...]

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Quickstart Google Analytics with Flash, Flex and Actionscript

September 6, 2009

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Google Analytics is a AWESOME free tool to help see what’s going on inside your site and content be it conventional HTML, or rich media. In this post I’ll be giving you a quick start and a few tips on using it actionscript. It shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes to get this [...]

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