Archive for April, 2006

Flex 2.0 and Rails

By Mike Jones ⋅ April 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Anyone interested in using Flex 2.0 beta with Ruby on Rails should head over to my good friend Stu Eccles Rails blog and check out his tutorial on setting up a Flex 2.0 and Rails application.
I’d recommend having a browse through his blog as there is some good information there. Oh and if you [...]

Fun with MXPs

By Mike Jones ⋅ April 13, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

For those interested in how to package up your Flash files for distribution via MXPs. I’ve just finished a general article on how a .MXI (mixy) is structured, including an example file to play with. If writing .MXI files for use in .MXP’s isn’t your bag there are a few links on .MXI makers at [...]

OMG… Do I need more friends?

By Mike Jones ⋅ April 13, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

OK, so I don’t think I’m particularly nerdy, geeky yes, nerdy no – and I don’t care what anyone says there is a difference :P. So like a few others I took the nerdtest, more out of interest than some dark force pulling me to it. I can’t say how truly worrying the results from [...]

AS2 Component sizing via the parameters panel

By Mike Jones ⋅ April 12, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Well I thought my articles covering off sizing a component in the IDE were at an end. That was until I got a comment from Justin Levi regarding resizing a component via the component inspector panel, he posed the following:
Great examples. Have you ever found a way to size the component container based on component [...]

Component Development at London MMUG

By Mike Jones ⋅ April 11, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

Well I sure most of the regulars at the London MMUG already know about this, but for those who don’t, and those who have never attended the monthly meeting. I will be giving a talk on developing Flash 8 components at this months London MMUG (Thursday April 20th).
As my blurb goes, if you use [...]

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