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I ran over this usefull article about how to setup flex mxml compiler to condinally include or exclude data based om settings in a XML file: http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=149

might break with flex update because of use of mx_internal var htmlAlert:Alert=Alert.show(“Alerttest”); htmlAlert.mx_internal::alertForm.mx_internal::textField.htmlText = some HTMl text goes here;

really usefull function to trace any data structure for their contents: /** * recursive parsing of any data structure */ private function traceObject(obj:*,level:int=0,output:String=""):*{ var tabs:String = ""; for(var i:int=0; i<=level; i++, tabs+="\t"){ for(var child:* in obj){ output += tabs +"["+ child +"] => "+obj[child]; var childOutput:String=traceObject(obj[child], level+1); if(childOutput!=”){ output+=’ {\n’+childOutput+tabs +’}'; } output += "\n"; [...]

If you wondered why your Mac always is slow, air fans running amok and noticed those mdworker and ATSServer threads in the activity display using half of the memory and cpu power of a 4GB machine, you might want to check if you got stuff that spotlight indexes but shouldn’t. Here two problems that I [...]

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If you ever ran into the issue of flex giving you errors about not being able to find certain classes on some lines of your code while it doesn’t complain about other occurences you might want to check for double class references/files. Happened to me when I worked on an old project that both had [...]

Some really interessting links on the topic: Lighty + Streaming setup for scrubbable H264 streaming Effects of h264 keyframe frequency on scrubbing Demo of h264/light scrubbing setup H264 streaming module for nginx XMOOV-Pseudo-HTTP-Streaming script qt-faststart – moves the moov atom to the start of a h264 file to make it streamable

someone try this for me: http://pttbt.ca/2007/11/09/unlock-dark-castle-on-your-iphoneipod-touch.html I already configured too much to be able to do that on my own (;

Some nice utilities for the Mac: New! Missing the great windows function that allows you to create standard files with  right click and selectiong ‘new…’? Get it here for free: http://ego-systems.com/Products/newcmi.html Multi-Tail A multi tabbed CONSOLE/SHELL freeware log viewer that was written for *nix flavours. They offer a mac binary too. Homepage for sources + [...]

Just in case you got to work with the same crap: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000570.html (keyboard combinations, handling multiple screens) http://www.bltt.org/software/xposk/osk_xp.htm (the missing keys (; ) Oh, and if you got into the text overwrite modus accidently, just try to use the 0 (zero) key on the numeric keypad to toggle the mode back.