Peter Elst

Founding Partner – Project Cocoon

Archive for November, 2006

Apollo – Leveraging HTML and JavaScript

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Chris Brichford, Apollo engineer at Adobe, talking about leveraging HTML and JavaScript in Apollo at the MAX 2006 conference, Las Vegas.

via Mike Chambers

Written by Peter

November 29th, 2006 at 5:32 pm

Posted in AIR, Video

Mike Chambers and Downey in Belgium

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If you’ve got some free time this coming Saturday afternoon head on down to Brussels for another Adobe usergroup event with our user group regular Mike Chambers, Senior Product Manager for Developer relations, and first-but-hopefully-not-last-timer Mike Downey, Senior Product Manager for Flash.

You’ll hear all about Adobe’s infamous Apollo project and a state of the union for Flash with some possible sneak peeks at what is to come in the not too distant future.

The meeting is free of charge as always but places are limited (not very many seats left) and you are required to register! For more information or reserving your seat visit our user group website.

www.mmug.be

Written by Peter

November 28th, 2006 at 2:49 am

Posted in Events, Flash, Flex

Apple support burns…

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[update] Got the problem resolved today, managed to do a direct trade-in of the broken magsafe at a local Apple retail store and bought another spare adaptor. All’s well that ends well…

I’ve been a very satisfied switcher with my new MacBook Pro and Parallels setup, until the inevitable happened over the weekend. First my magsafe adaptor cable started to show some abnormal bending near the magnet connection and a little while later it started to go brown with the insulation wire melting away.

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Written by Peter

November 27th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

Posted in Mac, Rants

Working with mx.core.Repeater

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I recently did some Flex work that involved quite extensive use the mx:Repeater tag and initially had some problems accessing the repeater instances using AS3.

To avoid the headache for anyone else trying to figure it out, I just did a quick example (right-click to view source).

[FLASH]/downloads/flex/repeater/checkboxrepeater.swf,300,150[/FLASH]

The basic idea is you access the component instance by array notation, for example: name_cb[0] is the first name_cb instance in the Repeater loop. Easy enough if you know how to do it ;-)

Written by Peter

November 18th, 2006 at 8:35 pm

Posted in Flex

Flash on the Beach schedule

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With Flash on the Beach just a few weeks away, decided to take a look at the schedule and see what sessions I definitely don’t want to miss ;)

Day 1 – December 4th

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Written by Peter

November 11th, 2006 at 4:16 am

Posted in Events, Flash, Flex, JSFL