If you ever sit down to try and parse Google calendar XML data in Actionscript (specifically AS3), you’ll find that there is a lot of misinformation on the web, including many poor, broken examples of code. I’d like to try and demystify some of the problems behind parsing Google calendar XML by showing how it is done the right way.
I’m restructuring my blog to only focus on these languages and environments: Apache, PHP, MySQL, Javascript (usually via jQuery), XML, Actionscript, CSS, and HTML. Very rarely have I had to extend my reach out into other languages to accomplish the creation of a quality web page or web application.
Getting a payment form that works can be tricky. But once you figure it out, you have the form as a reference forever. I’d like to show you how to build a basic Authorize.net payment form using HTML and PHP. Luckily, Authorize.net does a very good job providing documentation to web developers, making this form creation process very easy.
If you haven’t seen it already, LitList, a project I started in 2007, just underwent a massive overhaul. I’ve been heavily developing a new platform for LitList, taking it away from previous functionality to add in many new features. It is now built on Codeigniter and I’m loving it.
I spent my entire morning today trying to discover why I couldn’t get a pause function to work properly on an actionscript 3.0 mp3 player. I came to find out that a very significant bug exists in actionscript that keeps channel.position (part of SoundChannel) from reporting the correct position location of a stopped mp3.