What I needed I needed a way to secure a single page. This could be an order page or a page where I want to protect user information. The problem is, even if you simply try to go to “https://mysite.com/page”, you’ll be re-directed to the http page by WordPress. Furthermore, even if you use htaccess to force the content over https, you’ll...

Today I noticed something particularly annoying about ActionScript 3/Flex/Flash: Casting. I know of two ways to cast something from one type to another: 1.  var myvar:Type1 = mything as Type1; // does not work OR 2.  var myvar:Type1 = Type1 (mything); // works! I was using the “as” keyword, and I couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t cast my...

I LOVE Google Chrome! It’s sweet.  But until Foxmarks (now XMarks) supports Chrome… I’ll never switch.  I use more than one computer… and I need my bookmarks to sync.  I also like to sync my passwords. XMarks – please support Google Chrome!

This last week I had the opportunity to help a friend create www.pidaychallenge.com.  That friend is Matt Plummer – he was a teacher of mine in high school who inspired me to learn flash programming.  Up until I started working with Matt, I didn’t even own a computer, and now I’m working full-time as a Flex developer and launching all kinds of web...

I assume it’s because I didn’t search for the right terms, but I couldn’t find anything good about communicating between Flash 9/10 and Flex. I found some posts on LocalConnection, and this post… but the issue with LocalConnection is that you can only have on instance open at once.  So, if you build something and a user opens two tabs of it,...