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Upgraded the blog to MovableType 5...

As usual, the transfer from the old version 4.x to the new version 5 went smoothly. Only my userpic was left out in the cold, but that was easily fixable. First impressions: very, very responsive. While it used to take... (translate)

L.A. Flex video: Embedding fonts with MojoFont with Michael Fretz

At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Michael Fretz showed us an eclipse plugin for embedding fonts called MojoFont. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this! WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_cb008afe415c46f5191b298c7d6abea5", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { controls: { [...] (translate)

L.A. Flex video: Using the Flex-Ajax bridge with George McKinney

At our January L.A. Flex meeting, George McKinney demonstrated some examples using the Flex-Ajax bridge. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this! WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_c5343c96b649b4b487b2442ecf128560", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { controls: { [...] (translate)

L.A. Flex video: Flex app architecture with Michael Allman

At our January L.A. Flex meeting, longtime member Michael Allman talked about his approach to Flex application architecture. WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_4c8b523829f3b0ec3b3567cea54001d3", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { controls: { buttonOverColor: '', sliderColor: '', bufferColor: '', [...] (translate)

L.A. Flex video: Image manipulation in Flex

At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Cory McMahon showed us how to write custom filters in Flex, demonstrated some PixelBender examples, and talked about High Dynamic Range Imaging in Flex. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I [...] (translate)

Fading Trail Effect for AS3 Flash Particle Animations - a Simple Example

If you'd like to start creating your own cool particle effects, this tutorial is for you. We use one particle and explain how to code the effect of a particle leaving a fading 'ghostly' trail while moving. We also explain how to draw to a Bitmap, which is at the heart of most particle effects. And how to use ColorTransform. (translate)

Great image distortion idea

Recently I wrote about my distortion effect. Believe me, I experimented with it a lot. And it was damn slow on big bitmaps. But here’s a funny way to do it through native jpeg decoding. And it runs smooth on relatively big bitmaps. The guy messes up with jpeg data in ByteArray many times in [...] (translate)

Topic Voting Opens to Public!

Hello world of all things ColdFusion, Flex and Air! We are officially opening up the list of topics for the community to vote on! Our keen and trusty Advisory Board have voted on some of these topics already. Some of the topics they are voting on as we speak (blog). But we want to hear the voice of the people, the CF fanatics, the proud self-proclaimed geeks that truly represent what CFUnited is all about! Answer the call to action and make your voices heard! Evaluate the topics submitted and VOTE From gurus to newbies, everyone in the world and (translate)

Data Centre Fire Suppression Systems

I was visiting a major hosting provider today, and we got talking about Disaster Recovery and how it's all very well to have such a system in place, but until you actually put it into practice, how can you ever really be sure it will work. This led onto me asking "Have you ever tested your fire suppression systems?" The response - and a funny one I thought - "no, we've never started a small fire in one of our data centres to see what would happen". So, how can we therefore be sure that things such as fire suppression (translate)

CF9 EXIF Removal bug

I ran into a little bug in ColdFusion 9 whilst writing an article for .net magazine. Keeping it simple, if you perform two or more write operations on an image (to disk), using the same filename, ColdFusion will remove all the EXIF data stored in the image. This is listed as bug 75605, which is supposed to be fixed, but it must have slipped through the cracks somewhere. I've pinged Adobe about it, along with a reproducable case, and a workaround. I came across the bug because I was uploading an image (which writes the image to disk) and then (translate)

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