20080228 Open source Flex is great

As I found about the news, I spent some time yesterday having a look at the project’s files. It’s always interesting to have a look at the internals of the software for curious-like-a-cat people like me… but honestly, I’d rather have the Flash player open sourced. That would help to fix, or at least to [...]

20071211 UTF-8 checklist

Following the discussion in the previous post (Reasons for using UTF-8) I thought it could be interesting to gather a series of steps needed to get a UTF-8 friendly environment. I’m going to focus on php and mysql, because using mysql and ruby/rails and utf8 tends to be kind of easier (specially since newer Rails [...]

20071203 Reasons for using UTF-8

The subject on encoding is quite confusing and at the beginning one does never really know what are the differences between encoding types, and most importantly, what are the consequences of choosing ISO-8859 instead of UTF-8, so now that I begin to have more arguments than the Trust me, I think this is the right [...]

20070713 Thumbs up for FlashDevelop

Some weeks ago I said bye bye to php, html, css and all those pain inducing drugs for a while, and switched to work mainly with Flash. At the beginning I was using only the Flash IDE and external editors, as I had done since ActionScript2 appeared on stage (pun!!). But I still had a [...]

20070703 VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed

If you need to parse some XML with namespaces in ActionScript 3 you may find this error quite soon: VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed It all comes because of this line: default xml namespace = myXML.namespace(); It is needed in order to access the values in the namespaced value so removing [...]