http://dreamingwell.com/articles/ en-us 2009-12-17T13:03:52-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/12/excluding-direc.php 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... Flex wildag 2009-12-17T13:03:52-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/09/generating-asdo.php 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.... Flex wildag 2009-09-29T13:38:11-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/08/using-iptables.php 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... Linux wildag 2009-08-29T17:11:45-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/03/introducing-cha.php 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... Javascript wildag 2009-03-10T10:21:30-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/03/speed-web-page.php 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... Javascript wildag 2009-03-08T21:29:13-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/02/creating-a-scal.php 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... PHP wildag 2009-02-11T08:42:33-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/08/transcoding-myt-1.php 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... MythTV wildag 2008-08-03T22:22:21-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php 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... Flex wildag 2008-07-24T10:33:38-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php 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... Flex wildag 2008-06-18T16:33:42-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php Just for fun, I've created a Google SocialGraph Explorer application in Flex. Google's web spider picks up XFN and FOAF information. The Google SocialGraph API makes that data available through a JSON API. Running Demo Source Code This application makes... Flex wildag 2008-06-13T13:44:44-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/modestmap-examp.php The following was created as an example ModestMaps implementation in Adobe Air. This application shows the basic functionality of Modest Maps. You will need both of the following projects. The ModestMap Library is a checkout from the ModestMap SVN ModestMapAir... Flex wildag 2008-06-08T00:49:12-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/available-mappi.php Last week I gave a short presentation on available Flex mapping solutions to the DC Area Flex Users Group. We covered Yahoo Maps, ILOG Elixir, and ModestMaps. Below you'll find links to the slides I used during that presentation, in... Flex wildag 2008-06-07T15:18:02-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/understanding-m.php Thanks go to Danny of TheGoldHold.com for a bunch of this information! In ActionScript, there is no method to manually completely remove an object from memory. That task is soley the responsibility of the Flash Player's garbage collector (GC). The... Flex wildag 2008-05-07T13:59:07-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/horizontal-scro-1.php Out of the box, horizontal scrolling in datagrids with many columns is not smooth; especially if your view has many visible rows. A cheap and easy way around this is to disable "liveScrolling". Without liveScrolling, the datagrid will not redraw... Flex wildag 2008-05-01T12:51:10-06:00 http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/04/flex-3-map-with-1.php ModestMaps is a BSD licensed project that enables Flex developers to create unique and robust mapping solutions. ModestMaps has the ability to use map tiles from almost any source; with built-in support for Google, MSN and Yahoo map tiles. View... Flex wildag 2008-04-28T09:42:02-06:00