Degrafa, Graphics Framework for Flex

Flex and ActionScript combined give you a very powerful environment for programming graphics intensive application. The technology makes it easy to design and create animation rich interfaces. And now Degrafa adds yet another compelling choice if you want to easily create complex graphical interfaces.

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Streamhead now available through MailChimp

I’ve recently switched to MailChimp for email delivery of the new posts. MailChimp describes itself as an email marketing tool. What sets MailChimp apart from similar tools, is the many many options for configuring campaigns, email lists and reports. All of this in a very user-friendly interface. Instead of FeedBurner’s very sparse mails, subscribers to Streamhead will now receive a nicely laid out, weekly email, summarizing all the activity on the site.

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YouTube ActionScript 3.0 Player, Welcome to the ActionScript future

This weekend, I finally brought The Couch TVs frontpage up to date. It had been broken for a while, ever since my little YouTube ActionScript 3 hack stopped working. Since YouTube announced their ActionScript 3.0 player, a few months ago, there is no need for a hack anyway. Now there is a clean way to integrate YouTube in your ActionScript 3 programs.

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WAMP, An Acronym That Actually Makes Developers’ Lives Easier

WAMP is a software package that runs in Windows and includes an Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database and PHP running on the server. If you want the cheapest way to run a website, it is probably the way to go. Although the LAMP version (which runs on Linux) might save you just a few more bucks.

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Kanban, Project Management for the Next Decade?

One of the main aims of Kanban is to make the process more visible and therefor measurable. Kanban can be “bolted onto” many project methodologies and make them more visible from the outside.

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