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The following link points to a great Flash tutorial that describes how to create a game like "Line Rider". The tutorial is complete and interactive, and allows users to draw lines live on the screen. How is this done? Get ready to code, since you're going to have to know Action Script ...

I got a question yesterday about how to just get the XML being returned from a web service call. SOAP Based web services use a XML standard syntax when the client communicates with a service. ColdFusion does a pretty good job of translating the return value into either a simple object, or a Java lik

This is absolutely awesome

Not a huge amount to report. This release simply re-orders some of the class loading, so it is child first.Thisis important in case you load up a newer (or older) version of alibrary that ColdFusion already has access to, and you want to makesure you get the library you want, not the library loaded

The ADO.NET team details on its blog what has changed for LINQ to SQL with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta:Across the LINQ to SQL we have made numerous bug fixes, better SQL translation for queries comparing nullable columns in Visual Basic, and support both in the

I'm working with a database table that has a RowVersion field defined as a TimeStamp data type.  The TimeStamp field is there to add concurrency into the application to ensure a row hasn't changed while a user is trying to update or delete it.  When the TimeStamp field value is queried and

Tomorrow night I’ll be presenting at the New York GNU/Linux Meetup Group about Adobe Open Source - including the Adobe Flex SDK, Mozilla Tamarin, Adobe AIR (pieces like SQLite and WebKit), and BlazeDS. More details here. Hope to see you there!

Inspired as I am by Rob Brooks-Bilson's posts, I'm putting this out there: I want a cfvideo tag for Centaur that is akin to the cfimage tag in terms of usage and abilities. I want to be able to crop, cut, manipulate, and codec video. I want to be able to easily make Flash Video content from our con

I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty will result in fantastic looking apps -- but in reality, I still lack the design skills to come up wit

“Put me in a room with a pad and a pencil and set me up against a hundred people with a hundred computers - I’ll outcreate every goddamn sonofabitch in the room.” - Ray Bradbury (October 1998).

I spent a couple hours diagnosing a 500 Null error. There was little information to go on and 500 Null errors are hard to figure out in general. Let's hope someone is helped by this. The error resulted on a Linux Machine using CF7.02 with no updaters. The code in question was a set of nested custom

If you experience problems with Merb and Merb's DataMapper plugin from Git, you can use this patch for dm-more until it is being applied to Sam's tree. Edge Merb DataMapper requires Edge Merb and it is not reflected in gem dependencies yet.

Did you know there are three ways to open the options window?  The options window is the single interface for controlling all aspects of Window Clippings. It is a tabbed window that allows you to specify what you want it to do with captured images, whether you want an icon to appear in the noti

Jeff announced the release of Gallio alpha 3 yesterday, my time constriants at the moment meant I missed blogging Alpha 2 back in March but that release was a massive release in terms of features and the work that Jeff, Julian, Graham, Mark, Ben and the rest of the team have put in. I have talk

RIA based applications never cease to impress and Viewzi takes this even forward by presenting features that can literally change the way you search on the internet. Essentially it’s a Flash based visual Search engine. It gives a chance to users to seek content of their choice visually and in many s

The Document Object Model, or DOM, is the interface that allows you to programmatically access and manipulate the contents of a Web page. This tutorial is a discussion on the DOM representation of a document and the methods it provides to access those objects.

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Google Docs now allows you to create polls. But it’s not so easy or shall I say obvious to create polls in Google Docs. It’s one of those applications that are done from the programmers’ point of view and not the end-users’. You will have to follow this tutorial to create y

Eye-Fi: If you have a digital camera with a SD card slot, Eye-Fi has a plug-in that automatically geotags (location stamping) pictures taken with your camera. Using technology from Skyhook Wireless, locations are identified by triangulating distances between Wi-Fi hotspots. The Wi-Fi aware card also

I recently got a preview of WebAssist's new product, Menu Writer - which looks to be quite a fine Dreamweaver extension for creating and managing one of the most frequently used interface patterns- drop-down menus. Although there are a lot of menu solutions available, they've done a great job of dis

Sean McGrath’s report on coping with RSI reminded me of a couple of things. First, I need to find out whether the chair-mounted split keyboard shown here is still available. It’s been hugely helpful to me over the years, but I’m not sure it can be replaced at this point, and that w