http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog Claus Wahlers on Application Development, Web Standards and what not Sun, 18 May 2008 17:41:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/aupeo/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/custom-installer-for-adobe-air-applications/ http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/adoro-problemas/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/fzip-alpha-release-create-and-modify-zip-archives/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/fzip-airremoteupdater-upgraded-for-air-beta-2/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/social-network-privacy-poll/ 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. [via Tink] http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/holding-a-program-in-ones-head/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/automating-remote-software-updates-in-adobe-air-applications/ 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 ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/fzip-update/ Hello - This email is regarding a potential security concern related to your 'xxxxxx' FTP account. We have detected what appears to be the exploit of a number of accounts belonging to DreamHost customers, and it appears that your account was one of those affected. We're still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears that ... http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/nightmarehost/