Archive for February, 2009
Learn Flex in a week
Do you want to learn Flex? Adobe has put up an excellent Flex video training out for free. The course covers almost everything – from basics to PHP integration! Worth it!
(thanks to Ashok for the link)
Picture Puzzle – an iPhone application turned to Mac app because of delays from Apple
We applied for an iPhone developers account at start of December. It’s been about 3 months now, and we have not yet got the Developers Account despite sending all documents and repeated followups.
We have 4 iPhone products ready to deploy, but our hands are tied because we don’t yet have a developer’s account. We would get emails saying that Apple is looking into this and that we should be patient. But how long?? A delay of 3 months would simply kill your idea. Why does Apple have to be so lazy in granting a developer’s account? I am scared to think how much time they will take to approve an application for AppStore.
The frustration levels went so high, we decided to just drop the plans to release these products.
Then we got an idea! Why not release them on the Mac?
So from frustration to joy, we present to you Picture Puzzle!
Picture Puzzle - more info and download
Picture Puzzle is a Mac OSX memory test game. You see a collection of pictures one after another. The objective of the game is to arrange them in right order after initial display. This tests how well you can remember the order of images. It stimulates your brain and helps you remember things better.
It’s a free download, and we encourage you to donate!
Are you an iPhone developer? Know someone? How long did it take for them? Are we the only sufferers?
Localizing Flex applications
If you want to localize your Flex applications, here’s an excellent approach. It allows loading translations dynamically and is easy to implement. Nice use of change events and data binding!
There are other approaches (using Resource Bundle etc), but I like this approach because of its flexibility. I don’t have to compile translations in my application and I can let users translate and drop them in.
Printing Flex application from browser
Printing a Flex application from a browser is problematic. IE shows the application correctly in preview and prints it well. Firefox shows a blank area for your Flex application and does not print it.
Our Reports module for activeCollab, has this problem and I’ve been thinking about solutions. Here are the alternatives:
- Use ACPrintManager from AnyCharts. It creates an image snapshot of your application. This fixes almost all problems with printing Flex applications. And it even works in Firefox 3.
- Use FlexPrintJob to fully customize what you want to print and how. We have used it in another project and it works well.
What’s your take?
How do you organize your ideas – on computer?
How do you organize your ideas using a computer?
Or something else? I have been using mind maps (using Freemind) and outlines (using OmniOutliner). They are super easy and quick.
What do you use?
