http://blog.johnpencola.com Where streams of thought converge into pools of knowledge. Thu, 05 May 2011 05:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:54:42 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=158 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2010/01/10/how-to-communicate-over-serial-with-flash-and-arduino/feed/ 4 Hi there! Back from the holidays with an update on getting started with Arduino and serial communication. In this case communication with the Adobe Flash player. For all the details please watch both Flash videos linked below. You can refer … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/06/15/a-utility-for-cropping-display-objects-in-as3/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/06/15/a-utility-for-cropping-display-objects-in-as3/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:52:23 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=88 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/06/15/a-utility-for-cropping-display-objects-in-as3/feed/ 1 Recently, a buddy of mine (Steve) and I were talking about different methods to effectively clip or crop off fully transparent areas on the outskirts of a Display Object. I think I understood the problem his original discussion presents, but … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 04:45:15 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=83 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/23/uploading-files-with-flash-player-read-the-fine-print/feed/ 0 Adobe has been disappointing me lately — first off are the Flash Player limitations I noticed on FileReference() and secondly by the lack of motivation and progress Adobe is making towards fixing these issues in the plugin. To elaborate, here … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/05/vote-for-flex-builder-on-linux/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/05/vote-for-flex-builder-on-linux/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 05:34:06 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=78 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2009/05/05/vote-for-flex-builder-on-linux/feed/ 0 If you’re running Linux and use Flex Builder, or just care about the Linux folks who do then please post a comment here  http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053 . Hopefully Abode will take to heart all the activity in their bug-base on this issue and address … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:20:01 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/?p=50 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/11/30/the-thick-client/feed/ 2 Recently I have been working on a project where 97% of the business logic resides on the “other side of the wall”. As a result, we do a lot of round-tripping as the user interacts with the interface and in … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/21/intuint-coercion-and-fast-pathing-arrays/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/21/intuint-coercion-and-fast-pathing-arrays/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:41:18 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/21/intuint-coercion-and-fast-pathing-arrays/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/03/21/intuint-coercion-and-fast-pathing-arrays/feed/ 0 This is something to consider for intensive loops in AS3 and is probably not a bad idea to use in general although the gains may be minimal. I was reading about the benefits of strict type annotations in Actionscript 3 … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/02/05/ie6-fix-for-hidden-swf/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/02/05/ie6-fix-for-hidden-swf/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:46:16 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/02/05/ie6-fix-for-hidden-swf/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2008/02/05/ie6-fix-for-hidden-swf/feed/ 0 Since IE6′s browser penetration is still somewhere in the 60th percentile I thought it would be worthwhile to mention a gotcha in IE6 when embedding SWF. If the CSS of node in the DOM that your SWF file is displayed … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/22/geeking-out-with-bitwise-operations/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/22/geeking-out-with-bitwise-operations/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:13:06 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/22/geeking-out-with-bitwise-operations/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/22/geeking-out-with-bitwise-operations/feed/ 0 So, I was re-visiting some code the other day and thinking about how it could be optimized. I really wanted to focus on calculation speed/runtime execution and I remembered glancing at bitwise operators in the ActionScript Documentation back in the … Continue reading → http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/17/flex-3-beta-2-sdk-europa-w00t/ http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/17/flex-3-beta-2-sdk-europa-w00t/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:18:35 +0000 John Pencola http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/17/flex-3-beta-2-sdk-europa-w00t/ Continue reading →]]> http://blog.johnpencola.com/2007/10/17/flex-3-beta-2-sdk-europa-w00t/feed/ 8 The quest for a free Actionscript 3 and Flex 3 IDE: Everyone has their IDE preferences and I’m partial to developing with Eclipse. Thats how my AS2 environment was and I’m used to the Eclipse development cycles, so lately I … Continue reading →