Monthly Archives: December 2008

Cron editor component for HTML forms

I’ve taken my Flex cron editor and integrated it in a sample HTML form. Check out the sample here. We distinguish 3 steps in the setup of the form:

As soon as the Flex component is fully created, it sets JavaScript callbacks and it communicates its readiness to the HTML wrapper.
Then, the cron can be [...]

Posted in components, scheduling, tools | 4 Comments

Workaround for memory leak when playing Icecast streams in AS3 mediaplayers

The problem is that when playing an Icecast stream with a Sound object in the Flash plugin, you’re facing a memory leak. The workaround for this problem would be to swap between 2 Sound objects in order to free memory after every swap. The swapping strategy does the trick for AS2. But in AS3, there’s [...]

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Surviving the crisis with a Darwinistic approach

Customers are cutting down budgets. Projects are being postponed or even cancelled. Less work (and consequently less money) is coming in and Web agencies (not unlike other companies) start considering layoffs. I’ve been thinking quite often lately about the possible effects of the economical crisis on our sector. With the dotcom crisis of 2001 in [...]

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