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Goodbye FlashDen, hello ActiveDen

I’ve found out today, that there is no longer FlashDen.net, but instead there is new site in Envato network called ActiveDen. It’s same site, but Adobe has asked Envato to change the name because “Flash” is registered trademark of Adobe. And there are also Flex files on ActiveDen, so there are no more just pure Flash files, so it’s maybe better name now.

Major update of Goalscape AIR application

This friday we have released major update for Goalscape AIR application. It is project we (me with Tomas as Flexets company) have been working on for more than year. If you are not aware of Goalscape application please look at intro video. But in one sentence it’s Goal Management Software.

Why my sites were not indexed by Google?

Few months ago I’ve created site http://filmcomposers.info about Movie Soundtracks Composers, because I like movie soundtracks and music composing (orchestral) (I really love Hans Zimmer work). But site is still not indexed by google…

Text Layout Engine: TruncationOptions

This is same example as yesterday (Fit text in rectangle with Text Layout Engine), but I’ve added one more switch. You can decide if you want use TruncationOptions or not. Reason why I want to show this to you is that it works differently. I do not know if this is feature or bug, but try to tell me your opinion in comments.

Text Layout Engine: Fit text into rectangle

This is first example in serie of examples of showcase how to use Text Layout Engine (mainly for Flex 3).

Here is quick description: I need to fit text in rectangle (need it for our Goalscape project). I want to be able to change width, height, font size and text of course.

Text Layout Engine in Flex 3

Tweet I’m going to play with Text Layout Engine, which is bundled in Flex 4. But we need to use it in Flex 3 in our Goalscape project. And it’s possible to use Text Layout Engine in Flex 3. All you need to do is download Flex 4 SDK, or Flash Builder and get textLayout.swc [...]

Unable to export SWC oem

Tweet I have few times lately this error in Flex Builder and there were at least 2 cases, which cause this error to happen. So maybe it will help you to find your problem. Some file (in my case .flexLibProperties) has SVN conflicts, so you need to resolve conflicts and merge them to solve this [...]

2 Flex Developer Job positions in Leeds

Hi Flex Developers,

I’ve offer in my inbox for 2 Flex Developers in Leeds. If you are searching for Flex Job, this can be your chance. If you are intersted please write me in comments (fill up your email, it will not be displayed on page) and I will contact you with recruiter.

WordPress as CMS: WP Pods

Tweet In last few weeks I’m trying to set up few websites based on WordPress. I like WordPress much for few years already (from version 1.5 as far as I remember). WordPress is still evolving and there are tons of great features and missing features are added by plugins. Again, there are tons of plugins, [...]

Problem with XML attributes in AS3.0

I’ve found today some small problem with setting XML attribute for my current application. I’m generating HTML source code via XML, because both are tags languages and I have found this nice problem. Imagine you have DIV tag with class attribute set like this: