Archive for January, 2010

 WDS: Bridging Wireless Networks

I had my PS3 and Linkstation on a wired gigabit subnet because I wanted the PS3 to be able to stream HD content from the Linkstation. But I also needed the PS3 to have Internet access and the Linkstation to be accessible by wireless devices. First, I tried connecting my Huawei D100 router to the [...]



 Flex: Security Error Accessing URL Part 2

I previously encountered this error when I was working only within my own development box (laptop actually) and I basically worked around the error. But now, I need my Flex Web Service client separate from my Web Service. when you are in this situation, you need to have a crossdomain.xml file in your host’s root [...]



 Flex: Custom HTML Wrappers In Ant

Building Flex using ant build files is generally straightforward. Unfortunately, this is not so with using custom HTML wrappers. You cannot use the html-wrapper task since this only uses the standard templates in Flex’s html-template folder. If you want to use your own index.template.html in your own html-template folder, you will need to use a [...]



 Flex: Unable To Open Locale

When you’re working with locales in Flex, you would put in the following code in you ant build file: <mxmlc> <locale>it_IT</locale><source-path path-element=”locale/it_IT”/><include-resource-bundles>formlabels</include-resource-bundles> <source-path path-element=”${FLEX_HOME}/frameworks”/> <output>bin/formlabels_it_IT.swf</output></mxmlc> Then when you get a puzzling error: [mxmlc] C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\flex-config.xml(75): Error: unable to open ‘locale/it_IT’ But don’t you have that exact directory? Well, apparently Flex is actually looking [...]



 Buffalo Linkstation Live

I finally got my Linkstation back from the shop. Only, it’s now a Linkstation Live. Here’s how it happened: A few months ago my CDR-King HDD enclosure died when it suffered a workplace accident. To replace it, I bought a Buffalo Linkstation Pro. But after a only few months, it conked out (Lesson Learned: Do [...]



 Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed II is the sequel to the love-it-or-hate-it Assassin’s Creed. I myself haven’t played the first game but from what I see one group loved it because of the huge, detailed, and history-based game world and storyline. While the other group hated it because of the dreary repetitive missions and bland cutscenes.