Rotate Object Around Center In FlashBuilder/Flex
February 16th, 2012
ActionScript, Adobe Flex
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In Flash, rotating a movieclip/component simply requires setting the movieclip registration point to the center.
In Flex/FlashBuilder there are numerous blog posts on the subject (including wrapping the component inside another container and setting relative coordinate to the center of the wrapper).
I thought I’d quickly share a quick way I found to do this:
Set the component’s transform properties to half the width/height of the component ie.:
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MooTools Remote RSS Feed Parser
March 10th, 2011
JavaScript, MooTools
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Phew!
I haven’t written on this blog since September 2010. I don’t really have much to say nowadays I guess.
That’s not why you’re here though, so let’s get down business.
I searched high and low whilst working on a Joomla module (Job Board) for a ready class that’ll work straight out the
box with the version of MooTools bundled with Joomla 1.5 (MooTools 1.12).
In the end, I built one from a couple of regular JavaScript snippets I found.
It uses the SimplePie PHP library to fetch the RSS feed and pass it on
to the MooTools class (Joomla also uses SimplePie for RSS).
The class – called MooFeed 
– also has an option: {remote:false} for when you’re fetching the feed from the same domain and want to bypass RSS fetching via PHP.
Usage
var myFeed = new MooFeed ('MyDivID', url, {
remote: true
});
The “remote” option defaults to true when not specified.
Download the full source including demo
Maintenance Release: Job Board 1.5.0b for Joomla!
September 28th, 2010
Projects
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Last week’s release of Job Board 1.5.0 saw and influx of praise and encouragement from the Joomla! community.
I was also alerted to a couple of installation related and menu configuration issues, thanks to a couple of folks with a very sharp eye.
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