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Archive for April, 2008

Installing PyDev on OS X 10.5.2

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Google App Engine, OS X, PyDev | 17 Comments »

Update: If you are receiving an error when attempting to point PyDev to the OS X 10.5 install of Python 2.5 and are looking for the proper path to fix the error, then feel free to skip my rant by ...

Is it Flex?

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development | 1 Comment »

Earlier this morning my friend Aaron hit me up with an IM asking if I had seen SearchMe.com. It is a new visual search engine that is 100% Flash Player based and he was curious if it was Flex. ...

The Flex Code-Behind Pattern

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | 12 Comments »

The Flex code-behind pattern is a design pattern that has been around since the release of Flex 1.0 yet is not known or used by a lot of developers. The initial concept of the pattern was based on the ASP.NET ...

Testing Markdown Support In Wordpress

Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in OS X, Self Reference | 1 Comment »

I have been looking for multiple offline text editors for my blog. I have tried a few different ones over the years but I haven't really found one I like. I have actually done most of my posting ...

Moved domains and new layout…

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Self Reference | 2 Comments »

VivMedia has a long convoluted history and I am slowly but surely firming it up.  It originally started out as my first Wordpress blog that was hosted under james.fakescience.com.  It was going to be my personal blog that tied back into the ...

ActionScript 3.0: Named Loops

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript | 5 Comments »

One of the benefits of working with other experienced developers is you often get to see tips and tricks they have learned over the years.  ActionScript 3 has a lot of new features and functionality and even after working with ...