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 and appears to be of a lower quality than it actually is.

Fixing this is trivial.

(more...)

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:

(more...)

Dear Flex community and Flex engineering team, I have a challenge for you: let's make Flex 4 migration a one-step process.

(more...)

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 that it's in all of our interests to make Flex 3 to Flex 4 migration as easy as possible. As such, please read my follow-up post, The Flex 4 One-Step Migration Challenge and let's try and make a list of the Flex 4 migration challenges for Flex 3 apps and try to address them.

Please also note what I mean by "migration" (from the comments):

(more...)

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 explicitHeight.stateName, explicitWidth.stateName and minWidth.stateName and minHeight.stateName.

Here's a simple snippet to illustrate:

(more...)