Hi Everyone,
this is a follow-up to the following posts:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

In this post, I will add code to identify each request uniquely, give you a class called “AbstractClient” that will handle most of the mechanics and is easily extended. The idea is to give you a base on which to build. Essentially, for [...]

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Hi Everyone..
This is the fourth (and most probably the last) installment of this series on playing FLV (and H.264 MP4) video in Flash from scratch.
Full source code for the library is here.
The related posts are:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

For many of you, this might be the only post you are interested in. It will [...]

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Hi Everyone,
The series on Playing FLV files in AS3 was probably the most popular post on this blog. So I thought I would take it one step further: show SubTitles from an .SRT file over the FLV while it is playing.
First, you need to read this post by Jankees van Woezik. He did a great [...]

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Hi Everyone,
it has been a long while since I wrote! Been busy. Now I have some time and the first thing I did is to get away from the Flash IDE completely. I had been waiting to be able to debug directly in FlashDevelop for a while, tried some extension that didn’t work, then [...]

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Hi Everyone,
Looking back at the last 4-5 years I spent developing Flash widgets & applications (again, I do NOT participate in marketing efforts.. so no micro-sites or bogus games for me) I realize that one of the core abilities of a good Flash application developer is his ability to develop components from scratch. The better [...]

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Hi Everyone,
Although I am not a big fan of the CallLater function in Flex’s UIComponent, I must admit that it is sometimes handy. Here is how you can implement your own CallLater function, this code can be incorporated inside of any class, enabling you to add functions that are called after the current thread of [...]

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Hi Everyone,
over the span of the next 6 weeks I will be creating 2 custom flex components for Verizon Wireless’ MediaStore. One will be a data grid which is meant to be faster and custom fitted to their needs, and another one is to display search results.
Right now, I am at the exploration stage [...]

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Hi Everyone,
it’s been a while.. a long while. I have been selling my time to Adobe, doing Flex work with a great team in NYC; we are working on the MediaStore for Verizon Wireless since July 21st? I forget.. NYC is nice, but not for me. I’m a nature lover!
A few people posted comments on [...]

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Hello Everyone,
today I will discuss the method I have developed to consume RESTfull web services using AS3. This method was developped over time, I have written many different web service clients since last summer, about 20 of them; for different web services. Some of them require no parameters at all, some of them require GET [...]

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