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XMLSocket.send / Socket.writeUTFBytes doesn’t work?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Disclamer
In first words – no, of course it is not broken, it is working fine. But there is a specific issue with these two methods when the socket server is implemented incorrectly. I noticed I’ve been looking for the solution using these phrases and that’s why the post it titled like that.
I just finished writing [...]

Google Wave – Microsoft OneNote anyone?

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Right… just before SotR09 London I can’t get sleep. I just watched the Google Wave recording from Google I/O. After 5 minutes I had this feeling I’ve seen it somewhere already…, think, think! And BING ;) It was Microsoft OneNote.
All that real-time typing capabilities, dropping images, commenting is already in OneNote. Until I see and [...]

Why crossdomain.xml is even more than a good thing

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

For a long time I couldn’t really understand what crossdomain.xml is for. Today, after finishing one the Flex projects I finally figured it out. At least one of two reasons. About 4 years ago Martijn de Visser described one of them – defending your internal network from the attacks. But there is another way reason why crossdomain.xml [...]

Adobe and feeds.adobe.com team, please accept my apology

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

It’s been a long time since I last blogged, I’ve been on holiday and following week was kind of busy. It turned out that in my last post, Thank you Adobe for removing me from feeds.adobe.com, I accused Adobe/feeds.adobe.com team of doing something that never happened. As johnb and Big Mad Kev pointed out the [...]

Thank you Adobe for removing me from feeds.adobe.com

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Update: it turned out that removal of my blog from feeds.adobe.com was caused by a failure of the site’s database. I have published a blog post Adobe and feeds.adobe.com team, please accept my apology explaining what exactly happened.
I have to say I am really disappointed with this move. I really did not expected that. About [...]

Windows 7 Release Candidate – first look

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Today I got my hands on fresh Windows 7 RC so I decided to give it a shot. I installed it on VirtualBox 2.2, VM with 1GB of RAM and I have to admit, I am impressed.
There is no visible changes in the UI, the only thing that’s changed is the installer, it is really nice, [...]

Vote for Flex Builder for Linux

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Tom Chiverton has logged a support request in Adobe JIRA for Flex Builder for Linux. Quick recap – a week ago Ben Forta being asked what is the status of Flex Builder for Linux answered: the project is currently on hold. There is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development.
Developers want Flex [...]

Configuring postfix as a relay for GMail

Monday, April 27th, 2009

For the domain this blog is running on I have a separate GMail account, I wanted my server to relay all email there. I was searching quite a lot for detailed info on how to set up postfix correctly but could not find any. All information was scattered across different blogs, websites, forums. I just achieved the [...]

Flex TextRange performance issue on Linux

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Earlier this month I mentioned I have found an issue with mx.controls.textClasses.TextRange class. This problem was identified on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 using Flash Player 10,0,22,87) and could not be replicated on Windows Vista and 7 with latest Flash Player. I had no chance to test it on OSX.

To visualize the problem I am using [...]

Building an SQL tokenizer in Flex

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

This post is an introduction to the next post that I am going to publish within next few days. It describes one of the features of MySQL on AIR, SQL code tokenizer, used for code coloring.
For those who have no idea what a tokenizer is there is a great introduction on Wikipedia. In a few [...]