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/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 →