On my long list of plans for this year was to dive into the world of Flash Frameworks.
Only thing is that it has taken me so long, that the world has moved on to Flex Frameworks, but that’s beside the point.

I wanted to dive into frameworks because I heard all these people talk about how great frameworks are and how they’ve helped people build great applications etc.

A quick recap of my first impressions/experiences: (more…)

Come again?

Yes, that was what I said. Upon running Adobe Flex Builder 2 I’m visited with this strange error.
The title for the exception is ‘No disk found’.

ZOMG!

After right clicking on ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ and removing my card drives (you know the empty ones), the error went away.

Amazing, simply amazing :).

When you are developing a theme for say Joomla, or editing a lot of content, it is easier now and then to do this offline.
However if you DO want to do this offline, you’ll need a testserver.

I’ve been using JSAS, Joomla StandAlone Server for that purpose.
Download it here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jsas/frs/.

Once installed, you’re good to go with apache, php, mysql and joomla.

By default it will give you a local webserver on your localhost, reachable on port 85, in other words, to test it, goto :
http://localhost:85/

Inside the JSAS directory (more…)

A book I got for my birthday got me started on some anatomy lessons. I always loved that old style, you know that DaVinci style as my wow buddy lee called it. Not that I’d like to compare myself with him *hides*, I’m just referring to that old paper style, sketching and colorouring… ah well what am I thinking:).

Here it is:

Basically I first pencil sketched everything, then got some old papers, scanned them, overlaid some stuff, and added some basic colours to the canvas.