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Mar 21 2007

Yet another first Apollo app - Lyric Finder

I was going through the blogs and found that I was pretty late in releasing my first Apollo app. So I decided to play around with Apollo and build something. It's a Lyric Finder (I know... very stupid creative name).

It uses lyricwiki as source and some regular expressions to interpret the results. I know there should be an easier way to do that using some sexy webservices, but as I'm still learning the stuff....

And it also helped me to realize that I'm still pretty bad in AS3.

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comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:27 AM - Categories: Apollo | Adobe | Flex

Mar 21 2007

AS3 my own implementation of capFirst()

I'm just studying a little bit of Flex and Action Script 3. Basically to be able to build some tiny gadgets using Apollo.

While building one of them, I came up with the following function:

private function capFirst(txt:String):String{ var str:String = txt; var aSTR:Array = str.split(" "); var i:int; var uString:String; var newStr:String = ""; var strSpace:String = ""; for (i = 0; i < aSTR.length; i++) { uString = aSTR[i].substr(0, 1).toUpperCase() + aSTR[i].substr(1); newStr = newStr + strSpace + uString strSpace = " "; } return newStr }

What it does, is take all the first letters of each word of the string given and return them in upper case. I think I've seen this before somewhere ;-).

Not sure if there's any easier way of doing that, but for my first steps it's just fine.

comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 9:22 AM - Categories: Flex | Adobe | Apollo

Mar 14 2007

I'm Iron Man

After testing myself to know which Super Hero personality I have, I got this: Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man		85%
Green Lantern		70%
Superman		60%
Spider-Man		50%
Catwoman		45%
The Flash		45%
Robin		40%
Supergirl		40%
Batman		40%
Wonder Woman		35%
Hulk		20%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
Hope you're not catwoman! Show me your results...

comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 2:40 AM - Categories: Misc

Mar 13 2007

Ray has done it again! ColdFire RC1 released.

As usual Raymond Camden is always trying to make our lives easier with his free tools. Now it's time for a ColdFusion version of Firebug. For those who don't know, Firebug is a very handy FireFox extension for debugging Ajax and DOM. And this one will be used for ColdFusion. Check it out Thanks Ray!!! UPDATE: I forgot to mention Adam Podolnick on the original post. He worked on the Firefox side. Thanks Adam

comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 10:40 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

Mar 13 2007