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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Andy Lewisohn
Working with XML in ActionScript has been made pretty simple by E4X. But many developers prefer to work with ActionScript objects rather than straight XML. Unfortunately, converting to and from XML is an often laborious, and certainly tedious, task.
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by Matt Williams
Best Buy has opened up its retail catalog in hopes that innovative developers will help to expand the company's online presence. Best Buy Remix (currently in Beta), exposes information about Best Buy products and stores.
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by Joel Potischman
How many times have you needed to debug an application and wished, just wished, you had put better instrumentation in your code? It would have been brilliant if you had logged the key database fields before and after the update....
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Doug Burns
Yeller is a PHP script that lets a group post messages to a single Twitter account using Yammer. It does this by searching Yammer messages for a special tag (by default #yell) and sending any messages it finds to...
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by Matt Williams
Yammer is a new microblogging service that has been described as "an enterprise version of Twitter". Instead of asking, "What are you doing?" Yammer asks, "What are you working on?" Yammer has released their API with some great documentation, so...
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Posted on September 2, 2008 by Doug Burns
Encrypter is a simple Java class for encrypting a java object to text, and later reversing the process. It's useful for transferring sensitive data over an unencrypted channel, such as in an XML document or email. DES encryption is...
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Matt Williams
I've been having some fun with Twitter lately. Twitter's direct messaging feature is great for automated messaging tasks. With SMS and IM forwarding, I can receive critical updates from a server (or my coffee pot... or whatever) just about anywhere....
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Posted on May 22, 2008 by Corey Maass
Ever want to reverse the order of a group of DOM elements? Or want to give your user the option?...
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Chris LoSacco
If you work with Subversion on a Mac (and you should), and especially if you've got Growl installed, you might be interested in SVN Notifier, the first Apple Dashboard widget to come from the Arc90 lab. Updated 4/21/2008: Patched a...
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by Andy Lewisohn
One of the most lamented issues in the Adobe community has been Flash Player's lack of true HTTP support. In case that issue is unfamiliar to you, here's the rundown: Because the Flash Player VM can run in a variety...
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by Andy Lewisohn
The collapsible panel is a fairly simple container that pops up all over the internet. It's great for hiding, but not losing, areas of the screen that may be unnecessary at a given moment in time. This allows the end-user...
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Posted on January 10, 2008 by Chris Dary
I've been really getting into JSON as a transfer protocol lately. Having been recently muddled in XML, the simplicity of JSON is a welcome respite. Despite its simplicity, I've still seen quite a bit of poorly formed JSON around. And...
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Posted on November 28, 2007 by Chris Dary
Ever want to put a whole bunch of Select drop downs that can have multiple selections into a tight area, only to have to struggle with layout issues? Or have to put a layered div over over a Select and...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 by Andy Lewisohn
If you've been beating your head against the wall trying to get Cairngorm and Modules to work together, stop now. We've already knocked ourselves senseless, not that we had much sense to begin with, and, flux capacitor like, come up...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 by Richard Ziade
With the coolness of Adobe's AIR technology permeating the web (and your desktop). We thought we'd help bring it to the masses. Our own Avi Flax (not Flex) got his grubby little hands on the AIR SDK and wired it...
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Posted on July 2, 2007 by Joel Nagy
Ever want to put a whole bunch of Select drop downs that can have multiple selections into a tight area, only to have to struggle with layout issues? Or have to put a layered div over over a Select and...
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Posted on June 19, 2007 by Chris Dary
Speed up your apps and have a convenient application-level scope with AppCache by Chris Dary, the seventh tool from the arc90 lab....
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Posted on March 30, 2007 by Andy Lewisohn
Tired of using the same components over and over? The ShuffleStack is a new way to display several screens worth of information without gobbling up huge chunks of screen real estate....
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Posted on September 11, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
Make your tabular data nice and readable with tool number five from the arc90 lab, Alternating Rows. Just add some colors to our JavaScript and -- voila! -- no hassle alternate row coloring....
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Posted on August 2, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
The fourth tool out of the Arc90 lab addresses one of those problems that every web developer has struggled with at some point: opening links in a new browser window. External Link is a script that appends an icon to...
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Posted on July 19, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
Wrestling with image and text positioning is no fun. Let Image Caption, the third tool from the Arc90 lab, make all of the hard work turn into cutting and pasting. All it takes is a script and some style to...
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Posted on July 11, 2006 by Chris LoSacco
A picture's worth a thousand words, right? So spice up those plain old text links with Link Thumbnail, the second tool from the arc90 lab....
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Posted on May 25, 2006 by Richard Ziade
Our first tool out of the arc90 lab, Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even includes a handy set of colors...
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