Alain Hufkens
From the monthly archives: March 2009
At my company I developed an Adobe AIR application created in Flex for internal use. The application uses custom chrome because it has a specific designed interface. At the time we also decided to enable the transparency. To achieve this, you only need to change some settings in the AIR configuration file. This [...]
Today was the day of the MIX conference by Microsoft in Las Vegas. After the Techdays last week I was a bit disappointed in the Silverlight presentations. But on MIX they announced a lot of new features that will end up in the next version of Silverlight. I have [...]
Today Apple announced the new version of the iPhone Operation System. The whole community was really looking forward to the new features, and Twitter was overloaded with #iphone tweets. Off course for us Flash Platform developers it would be interesting to know if the Flash Player would end up on the iPhone at [...]
For an internal project I created an Adobe AIR application that connects to the Basecamp API. We have been using the application since the launch of Adobe AIR. Back then I had a problem connecting to the API using the HTTPService, because the combination of Basic Authentication and the [...]
I have been working on a couple of AIR applications, one of them being Airbob an open source Cruise Control monitor tool. This was the first AIR application I wrote way back when Adobe AIR 1.0 was released. For local data I also used SQLite which is very useful [...]
This week I went to the Microsoft Techdays in Belgium. I have not been doing a lot of stuff with Silverlight lately, but still I was curious if I could catch something new or see some cool demos that finally show the power of Silverlight or WPF.
The first day started with the [...]
I am currently working on an AIR application developed using the Flex 3 SDK. The problem I am facing now, is that I need to restart my application from code. This sounds very easy, you would think. My first guess would be that there should be a method on the NativeApplication object like:
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.restart();
But [...]
Back in December 2008 I was present at the Adobe booth on Devoxx to represent Nascom. I was privileged to speak briefly to Chet Haase and Matt Chotin about the new Flex 4 SDK. But I didn’t get to go see their presentation they did with
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Checking out CocoaPods - an Objective-C library manager > https://t.co/xdLU5OgO— February 1st via Twitter
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Finally found some time to dive into iOS5 Storyboarding.— February 1st via Twitter
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RT @robbedoes: Fun to watch: an interview w/ the sound designer of Angry Birds: http://t.co/lDARIGbB— February 1st via Twitter
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@wuotr Also, check this out: Flood Fill > http://t.co/SpweLK0N ;)— January 30th via Twitter
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Love it! Timesaver++ CocosBuilder, a tool for graphically laying out sprites, layers and scenes for @cocos2d > http://t.co/Jrb8233D— January 30th via Twitter
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RT @rwenderlich: Awesome list of Cocos2D source code projects, extensions and code from @iuridium: http://t.co/ovwLYhCv— January 29th via Twitter
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Moo! @ Kinderboerderij kiewit http://t.co/tYBlLsvH— January 29th via Twitter
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I've been doing my epic chores and just leveled-up. I'm a Level 8 Well-groomed Clansman now! #EpicWinApp— January 27th via Twitter
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