Mike Chambers

Heading to Europe to Speak on AIR and Flex

Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan are the cities I will be stopping in as part of the second leg of the European on AIR Tour. I will be MCing the event, and giving a session on building your first AIR application with Flex. The fir

Posted: May. 7, 2008 02:55 AM

MXNA is back up

New site and url is http://feeds.adobe.com. Redirects for old urls at (weblogs.macromedia.com) are not all in place yet. Christian has all of the info.

Posted: May. 6, 2008 12:39 AM

FlashCommand for OS X updated to work with Flash CS3

I just uploaded a new version of FlashCommand for OS X (.90), which fixes some issues with running with Adobe Flash CS3. You can grab the latest version from here. Thanks to rquigley and Patrick Palmer for helping to track down and fix a couple of is

Posted: May. 2, 2008 08:47 PM

Creating a default DATETIME_FORMAT filter for django

Here is a simple django template filter that will format a date according to the DATETIME_FORMAT variable in the settings file. from django import template from settings import DATETIME_FORMAT from django.template.defaultfilters import date regist

Posted: May. 2, 2008 07:46 PM

TIP : How to get Apache Location directive to match trailing slashes

I am working on deploying a django app online, and thus need to use the Apache Location directive to point to my django app. This is pretty straight forward: <Location "/foo/"> SetHandler python-program PythonPath &#

Posted: May. 1, 2008 03:03 PM

Adobe drops restrictions on SWF, FLV formats

As you have probably seen, Adobe has dropped the licensing restrictions on both the SWF and FLV file formats. Among other things, you can know use the formats to create players that read in the formats. Check out Ryan Stewart’s weblog for more

Posted: May. 1, 2008 12:34 PM

Update on MXNA (or what the %@#! is going on!)

Well, as you probably know, MXNA (a feed aggregator for Adobe related communities and technologies) has had some stability issues for some time, and has recently been down for the past couple of days. Update : MXNA is back up at its new url : http://

Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 05:50 PM

FlashCommand for OS X re-uploaded

I have been getting a bunch of email that the links to my FlashCommand for OS X download was no longer working. FlashComamnd is a command line tool written in python, that allows you to launch Flash authoring to compile FLAs. Well, I found the files,

Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 04:40 PM

Download Adobe AIR 1.0 for JavaScript Developers Book

Ajaxian has just posted the PDF download for the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide Book (published by O’Reilly). The book is released under a Creative Commons license, and has been update for Adobe AIR 1.0. You can find all of the

Posted: Apr. 17, 2008 04:18 PM

Google Application : Code Formatting Service Example

I was lucky enough to get an invite to the new Google Application service beta, and have been playing around with it. I just put together a simple code formatting service application. This provides an html and web service for formatting / beautifying

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 06:12 PM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	Adding Enum Support to Adobe Flex AMF Protocol By Valery Silaev travesti wrote: thanks my brother
	Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo By Kevin Whinnery NN wrote: Yeah you are right GWT is poor man's Flex. After using GWT on two projects I am done with creating UI using Java. Best combo is Flex + ROR or Flex + Java (server side rules no question about that) Otherwise Appcelerator sounds great for page level RIA.
	Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla By Maureen O'Gara Howard Fore wrote: @Joe: Yeah and she's the editor!!!!
	Designing and Animating Characters in Flash 8 By Chris Georgenes Markus wrote: i cant read it becouse some dumbass decided to put an ad for soa world infront of everything, Whos the idiot that made that decition?
	Dreamweaver Tutorial: How To Build CSS Based Pop-up Menus... By Joyce Evans Theo wrote: I've tried your instructions but the final result is the pop up menu overlaps itself and appears way below the button it is supposed to be connected to. I've adjusted positions in Fireworks and followed your instructions for dreamweaver, but it does not change. Th...