http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/ Anirudh Sasikumar's Blog en-us Copyright 2004, Anirudh Sasikumar Emacs Wiki Blog (ewb) 0.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 600 anirudh@anisk.8bit.co.uk anirudh@anisk.8bit.co.uk Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:50:33 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.12.10.html progressing. And the other thing - a neat move effect between each step so that it looks like the next step is sliding in from the right. I built a Flex 4 component that does exactly this. Use it similar to our good old Flex 3 view stack and voila! [...] (377 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:08:10 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.12.10.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.12.09.html 30 essential controls for RIA design. I liked control twenty-three in particular: Scoped Search. So I cooked up a Flex 4 navigation bar (vimeo style) that has scoped search and is completely data-driven and customizable via CSS. It does not use any images; everything is drawn. Along the way, I built some potentially re-usable things like a dotted line graphic element and a vertical separator layout. [...] (870 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:29:09 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.12.09.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.11.25.html Harish build a Flex 4 theme using Catalyst. Leaning over his shoulder, I gaped on while he effortlessly moved rectangles and ellipses around to build a dialog window that looks fantastically close to the "Display Properties" dialog on the Mac. I was so impressed (anyone who has watched Harish demo Catalyst will be) that I took a leap of faith. Read on for the details and some Catalyst tips. [...] (541 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:31 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.11.25.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.11.04.html Nial Kennedy and the project pyrfeed have excellent documentation on it. I had developed a Google Reader client in python that the web version of Readefine uses. I needed to leverage the same AS3 code base and write an AS3 Google Reader client on top of it for the desktop version. I managed to do it in a day while ensuring a common code-base for the AIR and Flex versions thanks to conditional compilation. This article explains Google Reader's API along with the AS3 implementation and how it merged in with the web-version. [...] (1051 Words, CategoryAIR)]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:53:53 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.11.04.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.30.html Readefine can help out with. I'm quite happy to announce two things: Readefine can now be a quite decent Google Reader client and it also comes as a desktop application (Adobe AIR application). Readefine's popularity was unexpected and overwhelming. I want to thank all of you for your encouragement and valuable feedback. [...] (686 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:07:01 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.30.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.13.html Clojure is a modern Lisp dialect that runs on the JVM and is designed for concurrency. In this article, I will build an end-to-end CRUD application in Clojure which connects to a mysql database and has a Flex UI as the front-end. [...] (1806 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:23:51 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.13.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.12.html Java SE 6 has built-in support for web services thanks to JAX-WS 2.0. Armed with nothing more than JDK 6, you can easily publish or consume a web service. This makes it really easy for a developer to prototype and quickly get started with web services. Using the data-centric features in Flash Builder 4, a web service can be easily introspected and accessed. In this article, I will build an end-to-end simple CRUD application in Java and Flex 4, where the Java methods are exposed as web service operations. [...] (1124 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:29:28 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.12.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.07.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:45:42 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.10.07.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.09.01.html Readefine beautifies text, RSS and HTML content for easier reading. Text is laid out in multiple columns, sanitized of stray newlines and paragraphs and a nice font is applied. [...] (411 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:36:25 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.09.01.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.08.10.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:10:23 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.08.10.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.07.15.html Sony Reader (PRS-700BC) would not get detected when plugged in. The USB device page reports that the "Device cannot be started." The Reader works fine when connected to my desktop and for some months it was working properly on my laptop as well. Thankfully, I was able to fix this. Here's how if you encounter the same problem. [...] (218 Words, CategoryGeneral)]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:50:51 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2009.07.15.html