Over the past couple weeks I’ve shifted to developing more and more for iOS devices. The plan is to share what I learn as I go. The first tutorial i’m working on is creating a “log in” view for your app, along with explaining how to use delegates to notify your application of the results. […]
There is a million tutorials on how to create a scrollbar in AS3 but I noticed a lot of them use the startDrag function. While it works, when your mouse leaves the swf it will stop tracking the mouse movement and act a little strange when you return. Here is a quick snippet on how […]
Today I unexpectedly received a Google Cr-48 in the mail. Sweet – Thank you, Google! For those of you who don’t have the history on this device, Google announced it’s pilot program for their new Chrome OS. It’s a pretty ambitious project, they’re betting the fact that we all live in our browser and use […]
I finally went to the dark side, today I begin my journey on learning Objective C and developing for iPhone and iPad. Coming from a backround in Actionscript and PHP, it’s been quite a challenge learning Objective C. The syntax is very strange to me but i’m excited to learn new things. One of the […]
Here is a quick example of how to use PHP’s base convert function in AS3. A lot of people use this function for shorter masked URLs like YouTube. Easy enough but took me a minute to find the equivalent in actionscript. PHP: function encode36($x){ return base_convert($x, 10, 36); } function decode36($x){ return base_convert($x, 36, 10); […]
In my previous post about email validation one user pointed out that this will not actually validate if a website’s domain actually exists. Here is a simple function that will do just that, determine if a website exists using PHP and cURL. Edit: After searching a bit, I found another similar cURL solution that checks […]