Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Battlefield 2

    I’ve never played a buggier game in my life. The only reason I can even remotely believe this game actually shipped into a product one can purchase on the shelves of your local store is because… why? You guessed it. It was made by EA.

    Still fun, though! Hopefully by the fifth patch, it’ll be playable.

  • How to get Flash to accept an un-signed cert

    Via my man Greg.

    1. First, you have to add your self-signed cert to the IE/Windows certificate store as a trusted certificate authority.
    2. Then you need to set up an entry in your hosts file to map your server’s IP to host name that’s in the cert.

    Once you do both of those things, IE will no longer prompt you about that cert on that site. Then Flash works with SSL.

  • Uploaded My ARP Framework Additions

    Using a lot of ARP, a framework for Flash & Flex, in a couple Flash projects at work and my SWG Resource Viewer done in Flex. As such, I cleaned up the classes, and put into the ARP labs. Hopefully if enough people dig my command implementation, which is a modification on how the default ARP commands work, maybe it’ll get implemented into ARP 2.03!

    My changes:

    • modified Commands to have a resultFunction; much like a Delegate, Commands can now call a function in a specific, pre-assigned scope when completed rather than some implied known function on viewRef.
    • modified Controller to support runCommand. Instead of commands auto-executing in response to a dispatchEvent at system level, instead, you can runCommands, and pass optional arguments.

      • runCommand(“CommandName”, scopeToCallback, resultFunctionCalledInScope, param1, paramN);

    • added ValueObjects.as to register value objects
    • added ApplicationTemplate.as class as an example for _root hacking
    • added (back) ICommand.as to the core folder

    JXL ARP Mods – HTML or Subversion

    Learn more about ARP, an ActionScript patterns based framework for Flash & Flex.

  • FMUG.AZ: MVC Jesse Warden Style Breezo

    I had the privaledge to present for the Flash & Multimedia Users Group of Arizona last night. Thanks John C. Bland II for the opportunity to do so, it was fun, and I hope your group enjoyed the presentation!

    I discuss how I develop Flash & Flex applications. What is shown is how my methodology currently is as of 7.27.2005. Since I’m constantly learning, and modifiying the way I do things, it may evolve, but currently I enjoy it and I hope others can learn from it.

    I covered a lot in an hour’s timeframe:

    1. FAME: What, why?
    2. MVC: What, why, my version
    3. ARP: What, why, my modifications
    4. _root Hacking
    5. My Favorite Components
    6. Show 2 example applications in Flex & Flash using the methodologies & techniques discussed

    The Flex app is written in Flex, AMFPHP/PHP whereas the Flash app is written in Flash & OpenAMF/Java. The Flex example is a fun side-project, the Flash example is a product Roundbox Media has developed.

    My fist time using Breeze and had some audio issues to start, so I suggest you start from the FAME section, unless you’d like to see the introductory outline.

    I’ve fallen in love with Breeze; presenting to user groups on the other side of the country from my office is straight bangin’. If anyone else wants me to present on a topic relating to Flex or Flash using Breeze, let me know!

    I had browser problems in both IE and Firefox at 22 seconds when playing back the Breezo, so beware… If you have audio problems, just click pause, wait 1 second, and hit play again.

    MVC Jesse Warden Style Breezo

    Powerpoint used in Breezo