20100220 Breakpoint demolog, day 18: loading the Song.xml

I have finally decided that I’ll load directly Renoise’s Song.xml file instead of preprocessing it as I did with the .it files in to_the_beat. Right now, I’m manually uncompressing the .xrns file and copying the contained Song.xml file to my data folder, but in the future I would like to automate the process so that [...]

20090710 “Blue Tuesday” sources released

“Blue Tuesday” is a direct evolution from the codecolors code base. Since it was all done in a hurry, there were lots of things which didn’t work as expected. I somehow got rid of some of them when I ported the demo to mac, then I got rid of some extra things these days when [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

20060401 What is Flex?

I have been a bit disconnected from the Flash scene for a while and it’s changed quite a lot! So I thought I may share with you my discoverings while I’m getting updated on the latest news. There’s this new thing called Flex. From what I understand, it will allow you to build entire interactive [...]