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Introducing ImageSizer 0.4.2

by James on 20th January, 2009 in Air, ImageSizer

Well, I’m a bit slack on the whole updates front – ImageSizer 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 have already slipped under the radar without a blog post – but with the latest release I thought I’d draw a little attention to it, not least because it fixes a bit an annoying bug that I introduced in version 0.4.1!

ImageSizer 0.4.2

So, what’s new in the latest version?

Well, one of the things that I’ve found a lot of AIR applications are missing at the moment, is the ability to configure their settings – particulary those things mentioned by Serge Jespers in his post: “6 AIR features that may annoy your users” [link]. Back with version 0.3.10 I introduced some Pixel Bender filters to the application. Version 0.4 introduced the Application Settings window – although it only appeared to work. Version 0.4.1 expanded on this by introducing some backend code that actually stored the settings, but had a glaring typo that meant the whole thing didn’t work. Version 0.4.2 in short, fixes this.

Geocoding UK Postcodes with Google Map API

by James on 20th January, 2009 in Google Maps

http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/

Awesome news, you can actually Geocode UK Postcodes – without having to shell out on licensing costs to Royal Mail.

Ok, so the post may be 2 years old, but I’m a little slow on the uptake.

I Can Haz Community? – Building a fanbase in 15 steps

by James on 20th January, 2009 in External links

Ben Huh from I Can Has Cheeseburger gives you 15 top tips on how to take your community to the next level, one user at a time.

http://thinkvitamin.com/features/i-can-haz-community/

Preloading FLVs in flash with ActionScript 2.0

by James on 19th January, 2009 in Flash

Looking at preloading video in ActionScript 2? Look no further than:

http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/technical/preload-flv-video-in-flash-actionscript-20-2

Using [Bindable] & ChangeWatcher in ActionScript-only classes

by James on 19th January, 2009 in ActionScript, Flex

What are you talking about?

Recently I’ve been toying around with using [Bindable] Metadata in Flex and AS3, namely trying to not only make it so that my static variables can be used as bindings in Flex, but also that I can detect when the variables change.

How do you do that?

There’s a few ways you can do that, and a whole plethora of other blogs that will give you rundowns on how. What you need to look for are the ChangeWatcher and BindingUtils classes [livedocs]. There doesn’t seem to be anything in particular thats different between them, ChangeWatcher lets you define a variable and function to call on changes, and BindingUtils lets you define functions to call when variables are set or properties change – all in all, not much difference.