http://natescodevault.com from the dark recesses of an anxious mind Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:24:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just finished making a logo for Transmission.  Let me take you through my revision process. I first started with kind of a retro-ish look. Then I kind of toyed with the radio tower idea in the Transmission name for a little bit: It was OK, but I still wasn't loving it.  So I ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=268 Often when developing an application for AIR 2.0 we realize that for whatever reason we simply can't accomplish the task at hand without involving another language such as Java. There are several reasons why this might be the case, the fact that AIR 2.0 doesn't work with non-storage USB ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=260 A few months ago I wrote a few posts dealing with how to create a Merapi AIR to Java production environment. If any of you have read those posts or tried doing it yourself you'd realize what a tricky and cumbersome process it is. Now with AIR 2.0, ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=258 Over the past year at Rain Interactive, I have spent all my time and energy as project manager and lead developer on the most revolutionary piano teaching software to date called Piano Marvel (not that I'm biased or anything :).  This unveiling also reveals the inspiration behind most of my posts over the last year.  Our ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=241 Recently, I ran into another issue with DataGrids.  I received a design comp from one of our designers who wanted alpha transparency in a DataGrid for alternating rows, the header, and highlight/selection.  Basically, he wanted something like this (I added a red gradient and vertical stripes on the background to ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=229 A few months ago, I needed a quick way to include YouTube video content into an AIR application I was making.  Initially, I looked into creating my own video player and trying to use the as3youtubelib, however I ran into people who had many issues with YouTube changing their API which lead to ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=223 A few months ago, I created a component called NestedDataGrid, to address the annoying issue with DataGrids not being able to support nested properties within objects.  This component allows a DataGridColumn's dataField property to contain a property chain such as:  "object.property.propertyList[2]".  This is something that wasn't possible with a default DataGrid.  However, ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=210 So a few days ago, I began a quest to find a good XML syntax highlighter for FlexBuilder.  Up until now I have been content to limp by using Eclipse's standard text viewer for XML files, but if I am trying to debug a huge ant script or configuration XML ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=201 A few weeks ago, I wrote a post detailing how to use Merapi in a Production Environment. That tutorial was primarily written to address managing Java and AIR on a Windows Platform including creating an installer that installs both the Adobe AIR Runtime, the Java-side of an application, and the ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=172 I recently came across a discussion on LinkedIn about what AutoComplete solutions are out there for Flex. I never realized how many AutoComplete implementations are out there! As for myself, I have only tried two... the first was Adobe's AutoComplete component and the second was Yahoo's AutoCompleteManager. I tried Adobe's AutoComplete ... http://natescodevault.com/?p=164