Viddler produces some of the highest quality web video I've seen. More importantly, they don't resize your video as you're uploading it so it's perfect for screencasts. It's a shame, then, that their default embed code has static hardcoded dimensions instead of the actual dimensions of your video which means that your video gets scaled [...]

I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this: I have to remember my phone number (I never call my USB Stick so I've never memorized it) and type in my [...]

Dear Flex community and Flex engineering team, I have a challenge for you: let's make Flex 4 migration a one-step process. Yesterday, I documented the trouble I had in porting my Flex 3 app to Flex 4 and I blamed the move from the Fx prefix to namespaces for my woes. As some of you have [...]

Update: OK, so everyone's caught up on the EPIC FAIL title (hey, it got your attention!) so I've changed it — I retract my original statement: it's not an EPIC FAIL, heck, it's probably not even a FAIL. However, it's definitely a FOL, so let's move on to address the real issue here which is [...]

Just ran into this gotcha while trying to apply a Resize transition for my AIR WindowedApplication in Flex 4 (Gumbo) using states. It appears — at least in my app — that simply setting the width.stateName and height.stateName doesn't work: it causes the animation to jump. Instead, I found that I also had to set [...]