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I’m no expert with regular expression and while googling, I came across this very useful tool that helps to do live matching of regular expressions. Its built in Flex 
If you are scratching your head over those pesky characters that come from Mars, check out:
http://www.idsklijnsma.nl/regexps/
I had been working with this wonderful piece of software and had no problems with it until today when I realise that the software maintains a consistent connection to MySQL server until you hit the commit transactions button. This means any queries from somewhere else like PHP will get hung up and timeout, so if you are wondering why things are not moving, do check this piece out.
Alright! Its finally here! The Singapore Flex Usergroup has gotten down to organising the first locally produced (can anyone verify this?) Actionscript conference right here in this lovely island. For the past year, the FUG had the honour of inviting several wonderful speakers and we continue to appreciate such knowledge sharing and networking sessions.
If you are dropping by Singapore in the month of October around the 19th, do visit us at the conference!
I had just realised that Godaddy servers block port 25 outgoing even on their private dedicated servers in order to reduce spam. While I don’t agree with this action, there really isn’t much I can do about it, but one thing im pretty sure is that I will move everything off their servers as early as I can. For people looking for a workaround, you can use k2smtpout-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net as a smtp smarthost for now.
I had the opportunity to try out the iPhone 3G here in Japan and its really a very very cool piece of hardware. GPS was stunning, youtube videos were smooth. The only thing I probably could pick at was the audio quality but I wasn’t trying it with my etys so perhaps it could have been better.
For the most of the cases, iPhone 3G is soldout here in Japan in every place I visited (shinjuku, shibuya so on and so forth), so no luck in getting my hands on one. Im looking forward to it being launched in Singapore though where I can lay my hands on one.
No pictures in this post though, the security guard told us that no photos were allowed.
It has been a cool week and im hanging out in Japan at the moment with a good buddy of mine for vacation, getting away from coding. If you love Japan or am just curious, check out http://tokkaido.com where we blog about our vacation (which is really an adventure at some points) and leave me and my friend a note! Arigatou Gozaimasu! (Thats thank you in Japanese)
Just took some time to experiment with integrating PV3D and WOW-Engine together. Unfortunately documentation seems to be scarce for pv3d 2.0 (GreatWhite) and I got some pretty good tips from visiting http://papervision2.com/ and studying the tutorials from there. Some basic cubes rotating with some spheres in them, you can shake it around. If you have links and tips for these 2 cool engines, please leave a comment behind so I can check them out!
It would be great if anyone can provide a hint of mapping 2D mouse coordinates to equivalent 3D space coordinates, so the cubes can move to the cursor location when they are dragged around. Couldn’t seem to figure that piece out.
Just tried out Firefox 3 today on Windows Vista and overall the browsing experience feels faster. The app crashed on me within 1 hour of usage while watching a quicktime video once, but didn’t repeat the crash later on. Another issue is that I can’t seem to use the Zazzle website with Firefox 3, I wonder if its Zazzle’s fault or Firefox, but for now I have to use IE7 to do my stuff on Zazzle.
Have not taken the opportunity to test the wmode=”transparent” bug that existed in FF2. But I’ll try it out later and post the results here.
Many plugins like FlashTracer and the RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin are also incompatible with FF3 so hopefully these can be resolved soon.
This June’s Flex Usergroup meeting was awesome (http://fug.sg). We had Arul Kumaran who spoke to us about code generation in Flex Builder, I think that was really cool. Personally I had not tried code generation before and its refreshing to see that it can actually be done. Gonna try it once I find time.
In case you didn’t know, FUG is Singapore’s Flex user/interest group. The usergroup organises monthly meetups at the Adobe Pagemaker room in Singapore and we often have 2 awesome presentations by cool individuals/groups on everything Flash/Flex related. So if you are in Singapore, do come down to take a look or even make friends around here. 
The other impressive presentation was Multi Touch! I thought it was plain awesome that the system could be built for just $10 SGD (thats about $7 USD) exclusive of the webcam cost. I must admit I am a fan of multi touch and have always thought about the possibilities of using the webcam to do it, but these people did it! Kudos and expect lots of cool things to come from the guys at NUI (http://www.multitouch.nl/)