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Mike Labriola's blog on advanced Flex topics

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All code is not created equal

Excessive Recursion

Excessive ramblings by Ben Schmidtke III

Strongly Typed

Nathan Weber breaks keyboards regularly.

Latest Blog Posts

Streaming Video to HTML

May 16, 2013 | Notes from the Trenches

I had the opportunity to present about HTML Streaming solutions to the cf.objective conference today.  I was thrilled to have a very engaged audience, who asked lots of intelligent, thought provoking questions.  As promised, the slides are available here.   … Continue reading →

Digital Primates helps TVOne with Content Management

February 12, 2013 | Notes from the Trenches

SearchContentManagement wrote a great article today about TVOne’s quest for a viable content Management solution, and how DigitalPrimates were able to help solve their problems.  You can read the article here.

SharpKit Part 1: Building a SharpKit Plugin

December 3, 2012 | Excessive Recursion

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted something so I thought I would take some time to do a series on working with SharpKit and developing a plug-in. I’ve been working with SharpKit while developing a plug-in for the Randori Framework … Continue reading →

Playing HLS Video in Flash

August 22, 2012 | Strongly Typed

**Updated with fixed links. Sorry about that! GitHub I’ve recently started work on a side project. It’s going to be a front end client for a media management server (Plex), which means it’s going to serve up lists of content … Continue reading →

Where is the iOS SDK?!

April 12, 2012 | Strongly Typed

In my previous posts about writing native extensions for iOS, I pointed out that it’s important to tell Flash Builder where the iOS SDK is located. When I installed Xcode on a Snow Leopard machine the SDK was located at: … Continue reading →

Building a Native Extension | Part 5 – Putting It All Together

April 10, 2012 | Strongly Typed

This is the last step of the native extension build process. Did you miss something or are you late to the party? Jump back to step 1. Now that all of the supporting projects have been built and compiled, it’s … Continue reading →

Building a Native Extension | Part 4 – The Android Code

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Building the Android library was very interesting.  It was easier for me to write Java as it was more similar to ActionScript.  Some amount of debugging (log statements) is actually possible with zero work on the developer’s part which is … Continue reading →

Building a Native Extension | Part 3 – The iOS Code

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The iOS project is the part that, in my opinion, is the hardest.  There are plenty of mistakes that are very easy to accidentally make.  Hopefully this post will help everyone else avoid the same mistakes that I made. The … Continue reading →

Building a Native Extension | Part 2 – The ActionScript Code

April 9, 2012 | Strongly Typed

In this post we’ll discuss the parts of the native extension that are written in ActionScript.  This includes in the main library and the default implementation. The ActionScript Library The main library is an ActionScript library which serves as an … Continue reading →

Building a Native Extension | Part 1 – The Problem and the Plan

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I’ve been writing a lot of native extensions lately.  The project I’m working on now requires all kinds of custom behavior.  It’s been an interesting ride.  I’ve learned a lot, for sure, particularly since I haven’t coded extensively with iOS … Continue reading →