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Netbeans & Silver Stripe

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OK quick note, Netbeans is an awesome IDE. Love the debugging options an set to xdebug default options. So it just works when running Linux PHP Xdebug. Was a life changer when someone showed me how about six months ago. Silver Stripe is also an awesome PHP framework/cms. But .ss …

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Bitmap to ByteArray

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Some notes about using sprites from Flash Professional in Flash Builder. 1 When adding Sprites or Movie Clips to a Flex application add them to a UIcomponent first or use rawChildren.addChild() to avoid run time errors. fx:Script spritecanvas.addChild(new Sprite()); // OR …

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Flash Professional & Flash Builder Compatibility with Sprites

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Some notes about using sprites from Flash Professional in Flash Builder. When adding Sprites or Movie Clips to a Flex application add them to a UIcomponent first or use rawChildren.addChild() to avoid run time errors. <fx:Script> spritecanvas.addChild(new Sprite()); // OR …

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Adobe AIR SQLite ORM

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A note from a series of posts on AIR and SQLite. At the time, I needed to put together an analytics tracking library for an AIR application — Google Analytics only supported Flex apps with DOM access, so it wasn’t available in AIR. That constraint pushed me toward building a …

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