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Flash Tracing to flashlog.txt

June 23, 2011 – 6:16 pm

To confuse an earlier brief post…(“trace() not working in Flash Builder?”), I just wanted to post another quick blurb on how to address an issue I ran into setting up logging from the flash player to flashlog.txt, by means of the mm.cfg file. As often noted, in order to set up the ability to monitor [...]

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svndiff2html: Convert SVN Diffs to More Readable HTML

March 17, 2011 – 7:24 am

Recently I wanted an easy way to generate diffs from svn that I could easily read — i.e. with some sort of markup. TextMate automatically displays diffs in an attractive manner, and in a manner that makes them much easier to decipher visually. It also allows you to export any code file as html, which [...]

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Pass flashvars from an embedded swf to a loaded swf.

October 14, 2010 – 11:24 pm

This is somewhat trivial though not entirely intuitive — passing flashvars from an embedded flash movie to a flash movie that the swf is loading. I was working on some code recently that accomplished this task using one solution that I have seen most often — by passing the flashvars as query string parameters. In [...]

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