Marcos Placona on March 5th, 2009

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I have just came across this very nice service which promises to write Regular Expressions for you. We all know how painful writing a regular expression can be, and on this website, you can not only have the pattern created for you, but also have it translated into the [...]

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Marcos Placona on February 25th, 2009

Reading time: < 1 minute I know I’m a bit late on this one, but yesterday Adobe released AIR 1.5.1 with a few bug fixes and one “minor-albeit useful-new feature.” as they say. Check-out Adobe’s Blog And download Adobe AIR 1.5.1 here

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Marcos Placona on March 21st, 2007

Reading time: < 1 minute 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; [...]

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Marcos Placona on March 21st, 2007

 
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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