Introduction to webORB Java – Flex project set up tutorial

Here is a quick screen cast I did recently of a run through of the set up for a great Integration server for a Java back end called webORB. WebORB comes in many flavours including PHP, Ruby and .NET so pretty much covers any server configuration and the feature set is easily comparable with Adobe’s [...]

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Filereference.download creation must be outside function – WTF?!

I was pulling my hair out yesterday - hair what am I going on about - I'm a baldy! anyway, I have an application that runs on FP9 so needs to use the Filereference.download() function by uploading the file to the server via a php script and then downloading it from the server via Filereference.download(). [...]

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swffit – great javascript utility for controlling browser windows

Ever had a problem where a site or application you are creating looks great when scaled to the browser window at a large screen size but crap when viewed on smaller screens? A major issue with sites that are embedded via SWFObject and set to 100% x 100% is that when viewed via a smaller [...]

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