Path to Enlightenment
July 9, 2010
I’m a big fan of Chet Haase and his brilliant blog Codedependent. He makes very entertaining instructional videos about coding on the Flex 4 framework. I occasionally spend some time on his blog getting to know the new features in the Flex 4 framework. And time and time again he has managed to motivate me to get back to work and use my skills in a playful manner.
A while a go I watched this gripping and suspenseful video about creating a simple drawing application. The video talks about the new “Path” object in Flex 4. The Path object is an easy tool to save and manipulate line data. (This simple demo uses only simple straight line segments but this object could be used for bezier curves as well.)
Anyway I was fascinated by the small amount of code needed for this application. I downloaded the code and played with it. Here’s my interpretation of the Path to Enlightenment. It’s in the spirit of “less is more”. Draw some lines and wait a few seconds to see what I mean. Your lines will be enlighted and stripped down to their bare essentials. 
The demo (press your left mouse button and draw by moving your mouse)
The source
Unexpected exception encountered while reading font file
October 18, 2009
I just had a weird unexpected exception thrown by the Flex 3.4 compiler on an existing ActionScript 3.0 project that always compiled without a problem.
exception during transcoding: Unexpected exception encountered while reading font file 'F.ttf' unable to build font 'F' Unable to transcode assets/F.ttf
Luckily I found solution via Google. Thanks Crazy Flexer “pixelfreak” adding -managers flash.fonts.AFEFontManager as an additional compiler argument fixed the build process.
Hope this blog post helps people that encounter the same issue.
FlickrPickrTickr
April 16, 2008
I’m a huge fan of fototickr , but I always wished I could use it to tick my own Flickr photos and I mean even the non-public (friends/family) ones. So I wrote myself an application that can!
I present FlickrPickrTickr.
When you load the page for the first time, you’ll be directed to a Flickr page that asks you to allow the app read access to all your Flickr photos. The next time you visit FlickrPickrTickr it will have remembered this for you. Upon you agreeing with read access, FlickrPickrTickr will start ticking your photo’s. (In my case all 7602 of them.) But you can narrow the selection down by using the pickr (click the pickr button) to specify which pictures you want to see. At the moment you can specify tags (comma separated) and specify whether you want to see the pictures with “all” or “any” of the tags specified. But I’m probably gonna extend the options in the near future.
Feel free to give me feedback.
By the way, the application is written in Flex. It’s an ActionScript 3.0 project based on the free as3flickrlib.
