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ActionScript 3 Library for Tra.kz

by mattm on February 11, 2009

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Hi everyone, MixMatchMusic released a URL shortening service today that is oriented toward Music related content, called tra.kz. I decided to whip up a quick actionscript library for it, which you can all use for fun. Download it here: Trakz.zip Here is how you might use it: import mx.controls.Alert; import kz.tra.Shorten; import kz.tra.events.TrakzEvent; private function [...]

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I’m working a bit more on my media manager, and cooked up this useful code that others may benefit from. It uses the TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service (v2) which, given a search term will return some IMDB URLs. Surprisingly, IMDB has no public API, so the TRYNT guys are using a data replica from [...]

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Adobe AIR Media Extender Manager

by mattm on January 31, 2009

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I have all of my DVDs backed up to XVid AVI files, and stored on a Drobo connected to my Vista Ultimate x64 machine. The two TVs in the house connect to this library using Linksys Media Extenders (one DMA2100, another DMA2200). After a while, the sheer number of videos I had started making the [...]

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Play the man, not the puck.

by mattm on November 30, 2008

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For some time (nearly 11 years now!), my job has been a mixture of defining, developing and managing the development of software products. Over the past 3 years I have been almost 100% dedicated to management with only the time to commit to small production development assignments or personal projects. When I first started, I [...]

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If you are a Professional SmugMug user, and just want to replace the SmugMug logo (not develop a custom theme), you can do the following: On the “customize” page, add the following to the CSS box .smuglogo { width: 170px; height: 33px; background: url(http://yourphotos.smugmug.com/photos/XXXXXXXX_XXXX-O.png) no-repeat; } …and in the Header section: <div/> Of course, make [...]

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