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fusion charts - charting and graphing from the back or the front

Monday, October 29th, 2007
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Doing an asp project that uses fusion charts for displaying business metrics. so far I’m liking it. they give you everything you need so you can either use their flash classes or precompiled swfs. I’ll try to remember to […]


update: flash media server on media temple / centos

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
came across this issue on a fresh fms install (installed by someone else) ./shmrd: error while loading shared libraries: libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory yum install *nspr will grab the seamonkey library, no idea why a browser files are needed, but whatever it works now


how to: flash - create bitmaps / thumbnails from live streams

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
ok so after beating my head for a bit I figured out a work around for live stream bitmaps. If you attempt to create a bitmap from a live stream you’ll get an error. to get around this, dettach the stream prior to creating the bitmap, then reattach the stream after the data has been captured ex: function […]


How to programmatically control Flash Media Encoder

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I’m very satisfied with this great software. It garantees great performances, expecially at low and very low bitrate. The only defect I found is the lack of a command line mode. If you have to set up and launch the encoding on a remote computer or if you need to integrate FME in a […]


comparing flash to windows media streaming

Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I’ve recently had a client that swears by windows media for steaming, and wanted to create a youtubish site using it. I helped him understand that flash was the best option, but then decided to look deeper into the debate to see what other people consider the pro’s and cons. I now to most of us […]


Flash Video (FLV) Bitrate Calculator

Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Found a flash video bitrate calculator: Flash Video (FLV) Bitrate Calculator Powered by ScribeFire.


simple viewer flash image gallery

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
this is old news, Just realized i’ve never mentioned simple viewer. simple viewer is a flash gallery system. I’ve used it for a number of projects (actually using it now) and it allows for dynamic content / config. Features: * Intelligent image pre-loading. * Intuitive image navigation […]


sounds cool: swx data format for Flash

Friday, September 21st, 2007
SWX is the native data format for the Flash Platform. SWX RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in SWX. It’s simple enough that you can get up and running with it in about five minutes. SWX RPC is perfect for building mashups (with easy-to-use APIs for Flickr, Twitter, and others), mobile applications (Flash Lite […]


using parent in actionscript 3

Thursday, September 20th, 2007
No, I’m not asking that question. Instead, I am going to answer it and explain the reasons why it’s not as easy to traverse the display list like you could in ActionScript 2. In addition, I’ll give you a couple options for how to get around any errors you may encounter when you need to […]


flash trim functions

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
flash doesn’t have trim functions. Luckily for us someone else saved us time and made them // parameters: // matter, string to be trimmed // returns: // string, whitespaces removed from left side. function ltrim(matter) { if ((matter.length>1) || (matter.length == 1 && matter.charCodeAt(0)>32 && matter.charCodeAt(0)<255)) { i = […]