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    Based on this flex example that shows how to set the VerticalScrollPosition of a RichEditableText, I made some tiny changes and I came up with an “animated version” I wanted to share.

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    The demo is visible here and the source code can be found there

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    Cheers

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    If you want to develop multi user applications, there are a number of technologies available out there, I’m not going to list them all, but recently, I worked with The Union Platform, Red5, and I also had a look at Stratus and AFCS. \x0a

    \x0aAFCS is quite interesting because it provides loads of features “out of the box”, and if I had to develop a “professional” / commercial application, this is probably the solution I would choose. \x0a

    \x0aAnyway, I made a simple “shared ball” application (just like the one that comes with the Red5 samples) and I wanted to share it with you …

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    Shared ball demo | \x0aShared ball source code

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    enabling the flashplayer plugin on chromium-browser
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    chromium-browser is the open source project behind Google Chrome (not the OS, but the browser), it’s quite nice but the annoying things about it are : \x0a

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    \x0a\x0aFirst, make sure you have Flash Player installed
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    \x0asudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromiun-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so\x0a
    \x0aLast thing to make it work, lauch chromium-browser with the —enable-plugins switch (in a terminal or launcher)\x0a
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    \x0aCheers

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    This code snippet shows that you can easily “make” a Sprite subclass the main class for an Air application.

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    twup - a simple desktop "app" for twitpic
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    \x0a\x0aShare photos on twitter with Twitpic\x0a\x0a
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    \x0a\x0aI made a very simple drag n drop twitpic uploader that can be downloaded here. For the moment, the source isn’t available but I’ll soon add it to my GitHub profile page.\x0a

    \x0aCheers\x0a

    UPDATE : The source code is now available here

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    bit.ly for as3
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    Like everyone who uses the web, I’ve been using the bit.ly “url shortener” a few times.\x0a

    \x0aI wanted to use this in an ActionScript/Flash project I’m currently working on so here it is\x0a

    \x0aCheers

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    want your gravatar in flash?
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    I just wanted to use gravatar in a flash project I’m currently working on.

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    Turns out, it was much easier than I thought.

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    Just enter the email address your gravatar is associated to (must be valid) and press “Get it”; you can also use the slider to change the size. Click here for the source.

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    Cheers

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    using gedit and need mxml support?
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    If you’re using gedit and you need syntax highlighting in MXML files, here’s what I came up with. Enjoy…

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    Oh yes, I might change the name to gedit_flash what do you think?

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    grittr a groovy script for twitter
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    I started having a look at groovy about two weeks ago. So far so good, I’m enjoying the features of this cool language.

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    As an exercise, I used twitter4j and came up with grittr, a groovy class that lets you update and check twitter from the command line. (There are some bugs on Windows, and since I’m not using Windows I don’t really mind but if you want to fix this, feel free to do so)

    The only thing I haven’t managed implementing is oauth, but you can grab the source here

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    hello tumblr
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    Decided to start using tumblr for blogging.
    Will post more soon :)

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