Monthly Archives: May 2006

Ruby Chronicles #1: Blocks and Yield

A “wtf” at lunch today while reading this book. There is a section on the 2 types of blocks in Ruby’s methods, and a description of the “yield” method. Totally jacked; it’s basically like sending an anonymous function in ActionScript … Continue reading

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Flickr’s New Non-Flash Organizer

Just read Nathan Pitman’s report about the updated Flickr Gamma version. One particular note was the Organizer is no longer done in Flash. Scanning the the announcement page, help page, and bug list, I couldn’t really find any information or … Continue reading

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Sessions with Flex and Flash

I’m looking for corroboration, confirmation, and/or corrections, so if you got ‘em, throw ‘em in the comments please and I’ll update this post. The more popular Flex and Flash gets, the more exposure I get to large server-side development teams. … Continue reading

Posted in Flash, Flex | 17 Comments

I got Flash to talk to Rails

I went through this tutorial, and replaced all the Flex stuff with 56 lines of ActionScript in Flash 8. Getting XML into Flash is the Flash Developer’s tried, true, and trusted way of getting dynamic data. Took me 30 minutes … Continue reading

Posted in Flash, Rails | 9 Comments

Agile Web Development with Rails First Impressions

Can’t sleep (as usual) so figured I’d write up my first impressions of Ruby and Rails after reading the first 8 chapters of Agile Web Development with Rails Sunday afternoon. Let me precursor this with I’ve only read 8 chapters … Continue reading

Posted in Rails, Ruby | 4 Comments