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Quick Hint: Fix Debugging in Firefox

Martin Heidegger — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:34:23 +0000

The new Firefox 3.6 "Crash Protection" makes debugging with Flash Builder/FDT impossible. A small change in firefox config allows to fix that problem.

Clean SWF’s in 10 steps

Martin Heidegger — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:38:07 +0000

(for libraries, pedants and teams) I am just in the midst of working at an application that takes a closer look at the swf’s we publish. While doing so I recognized that there are some things one might want to consider when you finish your work at a .swf that I saw many people not take [...]

About Threading

Martin Heidegger — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:24:38 +0000

As mentioned in one of my former posts, last week I was able to hold a presentation about threads at the flex user group cologne. The recording didn't work properly so I translated it to english and held it once more in our office for a few colleagues, this time the recording worked, enjoy!

302 and POST requests

Martin Heidegger — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:54:12 +0000

Some things in the Http specification are counterintuitive. Working in the client-server programming field, this is something that I have to deal with every now and then. One case in particular is stressful in the environment I work.

Step based thread processor for libspark

Martin Heidegger — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:08:36 +0000

I have been holding a presentation today at the Flash User Group Cologne about Threading and a processor I wrote as addition to the libspark thread framework.

Nothing’s going on, is it?

Martin Heidegger — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:58:08 +0000

Not much on the blog going on these days. Well. I am working in my spare time hard on nanosome. A new opensource project from me and my friend from russia (Mr. D). Up to and for now we are trying to proof the basic concepts. Once that is done you will find some introductions [...]

Road to tag cloud: Progress

Martin Heidegger — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:30:01 +0000

This week I finally found some time to take care about two – long overdue – tasks at the Road to tag cloud 1 that I finally brought me somewhere further on my journey to a Wordle like tag clouds: Open Source and Performance ...

Hiroko Heidegger

Martin Heidegger — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:45:43 +0000

For quite some time it was a bit silent on this blog. Not because I lacked ideas to write about or the community became unimportant for me. I’ve spent a lot of extra time on the weekends and in the evenings to organize my (as for now) most intense event: The marriage with my lovely [...]

Pushing JavaScript particles

Martin Heidegger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:09:29 +0000

Yesterdays launch of Firefox 3.5 included some interesting new features which I really wanted to try out. Worker threads and Pixel manipulation support took my special interest. Technically its comparable to Pixel Bender and the BitmapData API from Adobe Flash.Both offer at least two threads and [...]

Libspark: SWFWheel

Martin Heidegger — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:57 +0000

In many of the Spark Projects presentation there is one tine little class presented that actually really rocks: the SWFWheel. In fact Izukawa’s little project has no other purpose but fixing the mouse wheel event for the mac. For those who don’t know: On the mac browsers the [...]