When working with YourPay service there some small issues you might run into and so I can remember in the future I am listing them here. Fraud issue If hit the server several times for testing you might be tempted to hit it with the same amount but remember that even though for you they […]
Getting UPS Rates with PHP fixing small issue
There is an great class in Google Code written in PHP that works as a wrapper to the UPS API, I started using it about a year ago and never had issues with it since I was using it with Flash/AMFPHP/PHP, but now that I am working with a new shopping cart where I need […]
Actionscript dispatch event fails and solution.
The Problem: A event too close to the instantiation of an object is not being fired, I believe the speed of the code execution is too fast for the listener to be able to register for the event. Lets take a look at the following class to understand the issue. [as]package application.views { import flash.display.Sprite; […]
SVN PROPFIND 405 Method Not Allowed
Problem I was getting the following error after trying to update a SVN repository. [php]PROPFIND of ‘/’: 405 Method Not Allowed[/php] And had no idea what it meant. I read on the internet that could be from trying to checkout a file that is none existent. The interesting thing is that I was just doing […]
Learning PureMVC from HydraMVC
Intro This post is not specifically on how to learn everything about PureMVC with HydraMVC but mainly points out their notification workflow document that they have on their site and some other statements they make on their site. Keep in mind that HydraMVC is a complete rewrite from PureMVC, made specifically for the Flex framework. […]
Send multiple parameters to event handlers
At one point or another during the time you write applications with ActionScript 3 you will have to send parameters from to an event handler. By default you can’t send information unless you use the DataEvent, but that only allows you to send a string. That is OK if that is all you need to […]
PureMVC Framework from The Flex Show podcast
These are notes that I took while listening to the podcast, by no means the information should be taken as final. Feel free to listen to the podcast and let me know if you notice any discrepancies from what it was said on the podcast and what was written here. Notes from PureMVC Framework – […]
Project 10th to the 100th from Google
Last fall Google launched project 10^100 where they requested ideas from the public to make them reality… well not all of them, after the ideas were submitted they selected the top 16 ideas they liked and now they are asking the public to select the final 5 ideas that they are going to help be […]
Some things I didn’t know about TextMate and ActionScript 3
I have been using TextMate for a couple years now and I am used to write almost everything by hand. Since AS3 I have been using the AS3 Bundle and mainly it has been to highlight my code and create new documents from the Templates. But I noticed that there are a couple features that […]
IF statement in programming
I don’t know about the programming language you are dealing with but I would say that most of them will handle the IF statement in the same way and it has always bothered me. Specially when there seems to be no way to avoid using it for a specific circumstance. For example lets say you […]