Some personal recommendations for Flash Builder: - Design View remains unused for most of my projects. I think this should be moved to a separate tool (Catalyst), and that Catalyst should evolve into a more serious tool that doesn't crap...

When I first relaunched Some Random Dude, which feels like eons ago, I made the big promise that I was going to release everything I made as open source. That idea is still very important to me, but it has literally been years and I still haven’t released a fully-completed release. I could go on [...]

Scenario…I’m using ColdFusion 9 and MySQL 5. I already had my DSN setup but had a requirement to get the last inserted id from a MySQL INSERT statement (I’m using auto-incrementing integer’s). As most people know, the best way to do this (in MySQL) is using the last_insert_id() function. I wanted to attach this to [...]

Now that everyone is all giddy about CSS3 and all of the coolness it offers, lets get back down to earth. We still have older browsers to support so while using some of the new nifty features is definitely cool, we need to ensure we understand that at least 80% of web users won’t be [...] Related posts:Internet Explorer 9 Will Support the Open Source VP8 Video Codec I was watching the Google I/O keynote and was floored... Use ScriptSrc.net to Copy and Paste the Script tag for Your Favorite JavaScript Library One of the things I hate about using

Somewhere between the decisive moment and moving pictures lies the  world of digital compositing – where multiple images captured at different  times layer together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its  parts. In this episode of The Complete Picture, I will demonstrate how to  transform concepts and ideas into images [...]

In my previous post announcing our fonts on Typekit, I mentioned that we have included various optical sizes (also sometimes called optical masters), and mentioned that they might be useful in web design. I thought it would be a good idea to cover this subject in more detail, to explain what optical sizes are and [...]

As a result of being back in the “land of the coding” (see post: http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com/2010/09/08/back-in-the-land-of-the-coding/), I should begin easily to accumulate content for blog posts. Case in point last week, when I spun my wheels for what was longer than I should have, over dumb assumptions or misconceptions or misrememberings regarding some aspect of Flex/Flash/AS3. I thought I would start a new series of posts meant to capture such dumb assumptions as a reminder to myself ad hopefully as a cache of useful tidbits that others can come across when they are struggling with things that just aren’t working as

We’re getting really really excited for FITC Mobile, coming up in less than two weeks, and one of the new speakers I am personally looking very forward to meeting is the infamous iPad DJ Rana Sobhany. Rana is an innovator in every sense of the word. She has bridged the divide between mobile, technology [...]

The #30daysofme hashtag virus is spreading among my friends quite badly at the moment, so that's how I got But hey - at least it forces me to get back to this blog more often for the next 30 days (at least).#30daysofme – here we go, day 0 (and day 1 later today :) is a post from: Blog in Black

Join Nokia and special guest AT&T for Nokia Developer Day in San Francisco on October 5, 2010 during CTIA Enterprise and Applications show. How to use the new Nokia Qt SDK to create advanced native apps for the Nokia N8 and more new Nokia devices in the future How to use Nokia Web Runtime [...]

This post is long overdue, and I want to personally apologize to Adobe for taking so long to post it. Adobe (Macromedia?) thrives on customer feedback, early, and makes a serious effort to prioritize on it whilst comparing to their … Continue reading →

Want to add some music to your webpage? This script plays a different MP3 for each day of the week.

“Sandwich Defender!” Bizarre, oddly charming plate illustrations. Terminator-style child care: Gotta love it when your motorcycle-enthusiast babysitter shows up wearing this. (Go Chris go. :-)) Rainn Wilson presents “The Greatest Portrait You Will Ever See.” Parenting advice for those too dumb to be parents. “Partay, Bitchezz!!” WWII on Facebook. [Via]

Here some upcoming Flash Mobile related events: Nokia World 2010 in London DROID does Flash meetup in San Francisco FITC Mobile 2010 conference in Canada Adobe MAX 2010 in October Los Angeles SEE 2010 in Amsterdam Alessandro

Yeap, the usual video made but people getting a new device, now gets an official one from Nokia for the Nokia N8 and it’s pretty cool !! Alessandro

Identifying extreme weather patterns can minimize impact when that weather arrives. But to improve long-range forecasts, we'll need to create environmental sensor networks out of phones, satellites and other technology.

Any IPhone or IPad user has grown accustomed to the native scrolling features, which has been adopted by many competitors. Those who develop for the apple devices using cocoa have the ability to tap into the native features, while those...

YellowBird launched another virtual tour.This time is in a hospital. It contains: Hotspots + tooltip; Switching streams; Customized player; Separate [...]

Yesterday morning I got an email from fellow Adobean Danny Winokur in my inbox discussing the state of the union with respect to Flash on the mobile. The synopsis of the conversation went something like this.Flash Player 10.1 is now beginning to ship in volume on many smartphones.    Many of you may have seen the attached full page Motorola ad which ran on Friday in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.  There are other similar ads being planned by major carriers and handset manufacturers.  This is the culmination of years of co-development to migrate Flash (not

Russell Arch recently made waves in the online comedy world with his short Darth Vader Calls About His iPhone 4, which was viewed over 300,000 times on YouTube alone. His latest work incorporates phone calls as well, this time merging 3 celebrity “caught-on-audio-tape” moments into one giant mess. Here’s his NSFW Animation: The [...]