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Hello San Francisco!

Just completed my relocation from Moscow to San Francisco. Weather is great and people are friendly.

Spark AdvancedDataGrid

I have used the logic from Spark Tree to build AdvancedDataGrid based on Spark DataGrid and it seem to work nice:


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Since AdvancedDataGridcontains a few code and uses a lot of Spark Tree logic I’ve…

Sorting images by color

Here is a quick example how to sort images by color.

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Basically I just sort images by hue of the major image color. The issue is how to get that color. I get some image pixels, clusterize…

Android USB driver

If you plan to test the amazing new Flash Builder Android features and can’t install the USB driver for your phone – just install the PdaNet. It will smoothly put the driver in place and you will be able…

Pronto 4

I’m happy to present the project I’ve been working on for the last 2 years.

FTheme.com launch

FTheme.com is my new library that hopefully will make a small revolution in Flex 4 styling and skinning. New application look can be created in Notepad, loaded at runtime and change everything from application background bitmap fill to the…

Year summary

It was a good year, thank you for reading this blog – hope it is useful at least sometimes :) Starting from the 20-th August 2010 when this blog was opened:

  • More than 2900 people came and read more

Spark Tree on GitHub

I’ve just uploaded Spark Tree component to the GitHub so if you’ve got some updates or bug fixes – please send pull requests :) Also the package is changed – now it’s com.sparkTree.

Download SparkTree.swc
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AMFPHP in convinient and reliable way

Remoting with AMFPHP greatly simplifies the client-server application logic. Now I’m going to simplify it’s usage. No responders, no listeners or clients. Just one call(...) and one callback function:

  1. private function

Flash Builder Buritto – code templates and content assist workaround

Adobe has recently released a preview version of new Flash Builder – Buritto that has many great features including code templates. Here are my ActionScript code templates so far (download templates.xml to import):

  • commitProperties
  • createChildren
  • getterNoChange
  • getterSetterWithEvent