As you are no doubt aware from the About Flexbandit page I haven’t really spent a lot of time learning the Flash IDE, but I recently decided to give it another go. More »

I promised a while back that I would publish the new prototype front end for Zentrack. This initial version is written using the Cairngorm MVC framework and you can play with an early release here if you like More »

Flash Player 10 has been out for a while now, so I decided to test the claims that Google and other search engines can now effectively crawl the Text inside a SWF. Historically, I found that a SWF would be identified but would not be displayed correctly in the search results. This has now been solved. More »

You can now contact me live via this website using the Live Chat link in the navigation bar, or clicking here.

As programmers we’ve all been there. You’re working on a particularly tricky bug and for some reason you just can’t figure out what’s going wrong, so you call over one of your colleagues in the grim hope that they may be able to help you solve your problem. More »

I recently had the pleasure of talking to one of the guys at R/GA. This is a company with a long impressive history of success in the advertising industry and they aren’t afraid to show off.

Anyone who has used Firebug for developing web pages knows how good it is. Lately I find myself using it for checking style cascades and trying out certain styles “on the fly”. Below are a list of links to Firebug and some of the equivalent tools for other browsers:

• Firefox: Firebug
• Safari: Web Inspector
• Opera: Opera Developer Tools
• Internet Explorer: Microsoft Developer Toolbar

Google Chrome has developer tools built into it, which is nice

There are some very generous souls out there on the interweb thingy, and one of them has offered up a solution on how to make a very nifty TabNavigator. Take a look at this link for details.

As much as I have enjoyed the freedom of working on my own projects, the sporadic nature of payment and the huge overhead of writing specifications and proposals does take the fun out a little. For now, I am going to do some slightly more consistent work by taking on a contract at a large company in the Netherlands. More »

This weekend I revisited the Cairngorm MVC structure ready for use in the Zentrack project. I went back to the excellent set of articles written by Steven Webster at the Adobe devnet site and read through a Flex 3 PDF version too. As part of my work for DPD I created a prototype front end, which I have now started re-factoring into a Cairngorm structure. I plan to release the code in approximately one week.

There are a lot of tutorials for Cairngorm already on the web, so I don’t feel the need to reiterate someone elses good work. Instead, when I release the code for Zentrack (Liger) I’ll point out any of the tricky problems I solved that may be of use to others.