Monthly Archives: June 2006

DVI-D, DVI-I, and Bios Flashing

I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came home and hocked up my computer the next day I got one VX2025wm working through DVI and the other would not come up on the DVI connection.

I spent an hour and half just trying to figure out what was the issue, and finally just hooked it up through the VGA-DVI connector. Well tonight I decided to really try and understand what was going on…

Flex2 a MenuBar with toggled menuitems

The MenuBar and Menu components of the Flex2 framework are nice tools in creating standard business applications. As you look through the examples located in the documentation you might find some issues with the <menuitem/> model attributes…

Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos (Flash TechNote)

Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here.

Flex and Flash Player Codenames (better late then never)

I just finally put all the recent codenames together. I have known of Zorn since Flex Builder 2 was first talked about. But I did not know that Flash Player 9 (and previously 8.5 betas) is called Zaphod. And the next version of Flex (Flex 2) is called Mistral….

Flex/Flash wmode Performance

I have been working with a component that loads FLV video and SWF animations. The component is sometimes CPU intensive because of the FLV video and SWF animations used….

Apollo Presentation Notes

I am partaking in the Adobe Developer Week. I choose to learn about “Building Killer Desktop RIAs:
Adobes Next Generation Technology”, which is about the Apollo project. Apollo project brings web development to a point where you can create for the web and desktop….

Yahoo Groups (FlexCoders) Expand Messages

I have been quite busy with things going on at work and do not have alot of time to frequent FlexCoders. I just noticed a change to the yahoo groups….

Flash Player 9 (ActiveX) Installer Issues

I had trouble installing Flash Player 9 (ActiveX version) into Internet Explorer. This is the process I followed to fix the issue….