In case you were wondering what i have been working on in the last few months (and what will keep me busy in the coming months).. AUPEO! is a brand new platform that combines music and community - online, offline, on the road, on the web, on your desktop, on your devices.
I can’t tell too [...]
I need a custom installer for an AIR application i’m currently developing. That’s because my AIR app needs additional functionality that the AIR runtime doesn’t provide (specifically: detecting USB storage devices, act as a TCP socket server, talk to Last.fm scrobbler plugins). For that purpose i wrote a local RPC socket server gateway in C [...]
FZip has been around for some time now, and people seem to like it. However one feature has been asked for repeatedly: In addition to reading ZIP archive, people want to be able to create new (and modify existing) archives.
So i finally sat down this weekend and added that.
The code is not tested very well [...]
Just a quick FYI: FZip and AIRRemoteUpdater upgrades for AIR Beta 2 are now available for download.
FZip now uses ByteArray.uncompress(CompressionAlgorithm.DEFLATE) instead of the now deprecated ByteArray.inflate(). I also tweaked FZip to throw an exception when a parsing error occurs and no event listener is registered for FZipErrorEvent.PARSE_ERROR events.
AIRRemoteUpdater now gets the local descriptor XML via [...]
Some social network sites offer the feature for users to see who has visited their profile (footsteps).
Orkut for example introduced footsteps some time ago. A user is able to opt out of this feature (so she doesn’t leave footsteps anymore and can browse other people’s profiles anonymously), but if she opts out she also can’t [...]
Amazing how Paul Graham always manages to hit the nail on the head. It’s the 36 hour hacking sessions where i usually am most productive.
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I just released the first version of AIR Remote Updater, an AS3 class to automate remote software updates in Adobe AIR applications.
It transparently checks version numbers, downloads the .AIR installer file if needed and triggers the AIR-native update process.
It grabs the version number directly from the remote .AIR file without having to [...]
We just released an update for FZip (the Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files):
Added support for Adobe Air. The Adobe Air runtime provides a low level inflate method, making it possible to load any ZIP archive and decompress compressed files without the need of injecting Adler32 checksums.
Added FZipLibrary [...]
I have been toying around with the idea to write an Adobe Apollo application that’s able to monitor your favorite media player (such as Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Rhythmbox, etc) for play back status and song information.
Last.fm provides an application along with plugins for pretty much all existing media players on all major platforms [...]
Big propz to Adobe for sending me a set of HUGE (and beautiful!) Flex 2 and AS3 API posters! It didn’t even take a week to arrive here in São Paulo. Sah-weeet! Thanks a bunch, much apprechiated!