March 2009 Archives

Mar 26, 2009

Installing Adobe Alchemy: “bash: alc-on: command not found” Error

Posted by Dennis in Flash, Uncategorized 3 comments

I’m currently trying to get started with Adobe Alchemy. I’ve downloaded the SDK and Cygwin. I’ve followed all the steps from the getting started documentation: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:Documentation:Getting_Started. When trying to execute this command:
alc-on; which gcc
I get this error
bash: alc-on: command not found
The problem here is that the .bashrc file is not executed when the Cygwin bash [...]


Mar 9, 2009

Optimising the data loading process with Flex, AIR & Ant: compiled SWF files instead of verbose XML files

Posted by Dennis in ActionScript, Flex 6 comments

The project I’m currently working on needs to load large amounts of data. The application uses data which is supplied to us in the form of Excel sheets. The data for one object consists of 4500 records.
XML files are typically used for this kind of task. However in this case the XML files are huge. [...]


Mar 5, 2009

Sandy 3.1 Released

Posted by Dennis in 3D 3 comments

A new version of the Sandy 3D engine has just been released. Due to time constraints, my contribution has been zero this time.
The new version is more stable and faster than the previous ones. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you should be aware that some things in the API have been changed. Be [...]