Air bug? minHeight/minWidth

I have experienced something that could be a bug (feature?).

For example, if you set a window’s x position to 100 differs if you have specified a minWidth. Somehow i think the registration point changes.

This method corrects the bad positioning of the window:

XMPP for real time flash communication

Why is xmpp or jabber not that spread into the flash community? Why we don’t see jabber as an option for real time collaboration apps together with flash? Here are my thoughts on the subject.

ActionScript 3 Cronjob [beta]

I wrote a cronjob class in actionscript 3 during my flight back to Lima from San Francisco. This could help you manage repetitive or single tasks in the future using a cron task syntax.

Package information in ActionScript 3

When i code in python i always try to specify information about the package in the init.py file, for example the version, author etc. Unfortunately i haven’t seen smth like this in ActionScript 3 so i started playing with ideas and here is how i solved it.

Wii & Flash games for Visa

Just got the chance to post about the games we did for Visa regarding the Olympics. We setup 3 Olympic related games that are shown in Perú, Venezuela, Panamá, Costa Rica, Chile, Puerto Rico and Guatemala.

toFixed(0) and Date.getTime() bug

I’ve been able to reproduce a bug several times with the Number.toFixed(0) method in that it returns a “.” . Also from what i understand the Date.getTime() should return an int but sometimes it returns a decimal.

Flooded under wii's

For real! I have never seen this many wii’s in one place. 30 wii’s and no single game! this is horrible!

JRE - You may need to reinstall flash

This is the most confusing and strange error i have ever seen in flash: “Error initializing Java Runtime Environment - You may need to reinstall Flash.”

Antivirus in Adobe Air

It’s just a proof of concept but it’s an antivirus done entirely in Adobe Air. Check out the screencast of it working.

My first Ribbit app

I have been following the ribbit development for a while trying to develop an app in my spare time. Here is a screencast of the app in a very alpha state.