Category Archives: development

Throttle RTMP connections

At work, we use Charles to throttle our connections while working locally to help test real life connections. Charles is an amazing program but the one thing that it doesn’t do is throttle RTMP connections (Flash streaming). If you ever need to throttle RTMP connections while debugging your Flash/Flex applications, here is nice code snippet [...]
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Inserting keywords/variables in Subversion with auto-props

Spent a little time this week investing how to get keyword variables related to our Subversion repositories (version, last modified by, date, etc) automatically inserted into our code when we commit. My end goal was to have our code looking like the sample below with an initial comment header including our SVN information: /** * [...]
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Spotify url validation

I created this class for a project I am working on where I need to validate Spotify playlist and track URLs. I hope someone will get some use out of it or maybe improve it. It provides two static methods for validating and allows you to specify the return type which currently is a HTTP [...]
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ANT with JavaScript

Recently at work we had the need to build an application that could both be run over the network and on the local filesystem. Well, this doesn’t work with the Flash security setup as SWF files can only be run on one or the other. Like many other developers, we use ANT to build our [...]
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Inserting build version numbers into Flash and Flex Applications

For an ActionScript project I am currently working on (and for future projects), we wanted to be able to include the ANT build number into our applications when we do development and production quality releases to clients. The added value in this is that it is extremely helpful if you are constently pushing releases. It [...]
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