April 14, 2010

Flex

Scrollable Flex Charts

The majority of the work in this project was taken directly from MaximPorges.com article on Scrolling Large Data Sets in Flex Charts. The code posted in that article works very well for horizontal scrolling, but not at all for vertical... Read More

December 17, 2009

Flex

Excluding all but one directory in ASDoc 3

ActionScript Doc (ASDoc) is a utility that ships with the Flex 3 SDK that generates documentation based on ActionScript code; its very similar to JDoc and JSDoc for Java and JavaScript. While ASDoc does have many handy features, one major... Read More

September 29, 2009

Flex

Generating ASDocs in Flex Builder 3

ASDoc's plethora of command line options can be frustrating to contend with. Here's an easy way to generate ASDocs for any project in Flex Builder 3.... Read More

August 29, 2009

Linux , Web Hosting

Using IPTables to Block SSH Brute Force Attempts

Most Linux distributions have no SSH brute force counter measures 'out of the box'. You can use this simple command line set to configure an IPTables rule that blocks SSH attempts from any IP after 3 failed ssh logins. iptables... Read More

March 10, 2009

Javascript

Introducing ChargeWell.com, an online shopping cart for small businesses

Today I'm proud to announce the first open beta of a new online shopping cart at ChargeWell.com! We've made available a limited number of free accounts. Just use the "Register" button at the top right of ChargeWell.com. ChargeWell is a... Read More

March 8, 2009

Javascript , PHP

Speed web page rendering by combining JavaScript and CSS files, with PHP and Memcached

Web browsers have built-in logic that determines when linked resources such as JavaScript and CSS are downloaded. Because of the nature of JavaScript execution and CSS rendering, the browser may delay it's request for each resource, even when that's detrimental... Read More

February 11, 2009

Flex , Linux , PHP

Creating a scalable Flex Application with PHP, MemCached and AMF

MemCached is a free "distributed memory object caching system" that can work wonders on your application's responsiveness and server load. If your application does not need "instantaneous" data calculations for every user, you can use MemCached to greatly reduce your... Read More

August 3, 2008

Linux , MythTV , PS3

Transcoding MythTV for UPnP transport to a PS3

MythTV has a builtin UPnP server that can serve recorded shows to the PS3's UPnP client. However, the format that MythTV records may not be directly compatible with the PS3s video client. I use the following user job in MythTV... Read More

July 24, 2008

Flex

Introducing RIAStats.com

RIAStats.com collects statistics about Rich Internet Application browser plugin deployments and provides the results publicly. The site uses a small javascript, much like Google Analytics, to detect the presence and version of RIA plugins. Like google analytics, any web site... Read More

June 18, 2008

Flex

Displaying a Shapefile (.shp) on a Map in Flex

Using some of my previously covered material, I have created a Flex appication that displays Shapefile (.shp) polygons on a map. This demo includes three different shapefiles that give some information about Brazos County, TX. You'll notice that you can... Read More