Posts in category “Programming”:

Saving and Accessing Version/Compilation Information with Flex Applications

Posted on September 29, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Programming | 1 Comment

On several occasions while developing Flash applications I’ve run into problems with proxy/cache servers. The pattern is usually something like this: I notice a bug in an application that only occurs when running it on the server I debug the application, find the bug and issue a fix I deploy the new version that contains [...]

icalBuddy: Getting Events and Tasks from the OS X Calendar Store via the Command Line

Posted on June 20, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming | 24 Comments

I’m a big fan of the “do not repeat yourself” principle, which, especially in the context of software, basically means that you should only have one place to change anything. Any highly volatile data that will be viewed from more than one location (or in more than one way) should only have one location and/or [...]

Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3 Flash Applications (v.2+)

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Mac, Programming | 75 Comments

So I’ve finally updated the solution I’ve made earlier for enabling Mac OS X mouse wheel support in Flex applications to a second version. I didn’t want to continue adding stuff into the original post, so I decided to write a separate post just for this new version. As you can see from the title, [...]

A “Go to Parent of Current Folder” Toolbar Button for Finder

Posted on January 10, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 6 Comments

Although the updated version introduced with Leopard significantly improves upon the one in Tiger, I still think Mac OS’s Finder is lacking in several departments. I Don’t feel “at home” with separate file managers (Path Finder or ForkLift, for example — even though I do own a license to the latter, I only use it [...]

Collapsible Panel Component for Flex

Posted on January 4, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Programming | 22 Comments

Here’s an another post in the same vein as my previous one: this time, the component I’m sharing is a Panel subclass that allows for collapsing and expanding its contents. What this means is that the user can click on the header of the Panel to make it toggle between an open or closed state, [...]

Vertical TabNavigator Component for Flex

Posted on January 3, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Programming | 38 Comments

I Some time ago ran into a situation with a Flex app I was working on where I needed to use a TabNavigator component, but have its TabBar situated on the left or right side of the ViewStack (instead of on the top, where it is in the default TabNavigator.) I Could not find any [...]

Growlnotify Leopard Incompatibility Workaround

Posted on January 2, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 32 Comments

I Have a bunch of custom shell scripts that I use for various things, and most of them use the growlnotify utility that is distributed with Growl to display messages to the user. Unfortunately, as of this writing, growlnotify has some issues with Leopard and thus messages sent through it will be displayed only intermittently [...]

ActionScript 3 Support for jEdit’s SideKick Plugin Through Exuberant Ctags

Posted on October 9, 2007
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, jEdit, Programming | 5 Comments

Today VeryVito made a post on his blog that I had been waiting for a while now: he had just written ActionScript 3 support for Exuberant Ctags, which means proper SideKick plugin support for jEdit when editing AS3 with it. He also made nicer icons for use with the CtagsSideKick, so you should definitely check [...]

An Application Bundle / Shell Script for Starting and Stopping the Tomcat Server

Posted on October 3, 2007
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 2 Comments

I’ve recently had to install tomcat on my localhost to continue developing the Flex application I’m currently doing at work since it connects to web services that are implemented in Java. I wanted an easy way to start and stop the tomcat server, so I made this nice little app for it with the help [...]

Flex SDK Language Reference Helper Macro for jEdit

Posted on October 1, 2007
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, jEdit, Mac, Programming | Leave a Comment

VeryVito at turdhead.com has been writing lately about customizing jEdit for writing ActionScript, which is exactly what I’ve also been doing. A While ago he posted macros for referencing the help files that came with Flash CS3. Well, I don’t have Flash CS3, and I use the Flex SDK to do my ActionScripting, so I [...]


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