The problem is that when playing an Icecast stream with a Sound object in the Flash plugin, you're facing a memory leak. The workaround for this problem would be to swap between 2 Sound objects in order to free memory after every swap. The swapping strategy does the trick for AS2. But in AS3, there's [...]

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I've taken my Flex cron editor and integrated it in a sample HTML form. Check out the sample here. We distinguish 3 steps in the setup of the form: As soon as the Flex component is fully created, it sets JavaScript callbacks and it communicates its readiness to the HTML wrapper. Then, the cron can be [...]

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I've updated my Flex logging target with the possibility to log directly to a text file. Good thing is that you can switch live between catching the log entries in the panel or writing them to a file. Read this blog post to find out how to write logging messages for XPanelOnAIR using Flex' built-in [...]

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ONE Agency just released a Facebook application built in Flex for Overtoom. We took the Overtoom online radio, converted it into a music quiz and made a Facebook application out of it. I think the idea's really cool, check out the music quiz here: http://apps.facebook.com/overtoom/ I expect that branded Facebook apps will start popping up like daisies. Check out [...]

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I don't claim to be a specialist on the matter, but with my professional experience and my healthy dose of common sense, I feel confident enough to have a little say about this. Five simple principles... 1. Constructive criticism The first topic comes down to respect for people. Insulting someone's ability is unfair, don't become personal and just stick [...]

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It's still at a very early startup phase, but I think it can be interesting enough to announce here that a new AS3 framework (yet another) is in the making. The aim of the framework is to provide a consistent structure in which to develop advanced full Flash and Flex websites and let the framework [...]

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I made a quick 'n dirty sample to illustrate how Drupal services can be called in Flex using keys and authentication: http://www.novio.be/downloads/drupal_services/ (right-click, view source). As you can see in the example, we have two types of calls. One that's publicly available to anonymous users and one that requires user authentication. The latter requires some more [...]

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After reading this getting started with Cocomo tutorial by Ryan Stewart, I made a stupid little proof-of-concept for a multiplayer pong game. A pong game is dropdead simple, but I came across an interesting problem related to multiplayer games that I never thought about before because this is my first multiplayer game attempt ever (so [...]

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You might have noticed that when using 3D positioning in Flash CS4 that the image becomes a little blurry. For example, check out this sample demonstrating the problem: http://www.novio.be/demo/problems/unsharp.html. The trained eye immediately spots that the left image is fuzzy and the right one is sharp. You would expect your image being sharp when you [...]

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Just about every Flash developer is capable of making a media player, but I know only one where a business grew out of it and that's the JW player (respect!). I don't know about you, but seeing this makes me dream about launching my own successful RIA. Besides the fact that I first need a [...]

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