Just add water

Today I learned something new about color profiles in pictures.

The different browsers handles color profiles differently, some ignore and others use them. This can give problems with the colors in a picture that might be shown differently according to the browser.

To solve this problem, it is a good idea to remove the ICC color profile when saving a picture. This can be done with ImageReady when saving or with Gimp, by creating a new image (without a color profile) and copying the picture over in the new image.

Just some links, so I don’t forget.

Great FLV player: JW_FLV_Player

AS3 core library: as3corelib

Some Flex examples:

asfusion examples

Flash and Flex:

How to use the Flash CS3 component set in a Flex Builder ActionScript project
Transitioning from browser to desktop with Flash CS3 and Adobe AIR

Flex tag drawing

Flash framework using scaffolding:
Gaia (good for building small Flash websites)

I have recently changed from 10 years of developing in the PC environment to developing on a MacBook Pro. The change was fast and I am super happy about the change. I absolutely love the MacBook environment.

Anyways, I have one complaint though. The Applescript seems quite useless to me. At first look it seems powerful and easy to use. After a little while you realize that the documentation is sparse, that people seem unhappy with the language and that the simplest thing is near impossible to get to work.

I gave it two chances (and two full hours) to solve a simple task of running a shell script to launch an application. Basically I just wanted to do the following:

cd /applications/xampp/xamppfiles
sudo ./mampp start


which launches XAMPP from the right directory.

With 2 minutes spend on Automator (Apple program to automate tasks) it was solved. Bye bye Applescript.

Welcome to this blog that will contain thoughts about RIA development.

I have extensive knowledge and experience in Flash development, but have been slow to get on the Flex train. Finally last month I jumped into it and started porting a project management tool from Flash to Flex. The first version is running and working, but I still feel very limited in Flex layouting and skinning.

I am currently playing with Flex and Java, using the examples with Flex, Blazed and Spring.

Blazeds and Spring

Spring, Hibernate and Blazeds

Then I really wanna play with this (whenever it gets available):

Flex Mojos

I will use this blog to add my findings, issues and things I learn from my experiences.

I highly recommend Christophe Coenraets blog.