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		<title>Triumphant return to the internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[15 months since my last post; I have been a remarkably busy man, sorry! Also I&#8217;ve got more and more into microblogging via Twitter (@robmccardle) and found that enough of an outlet for splurging public things about technology. Time for a minor update on my little corner of the web though, just in case you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FP10 AS3 TextLayout TTF transcoding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Further to my last post about intl text, I have solved some of the issues and found resources for Arabic as well as Hindi. I thought I&#8217;d list the error that Flex SDK 4.0.0.7052 chucks when I try to transcode certain TTF files: [code lang="actionscript"] Error: unable to build font 'B Nasim' [Embed(source='/../fonts/arabic/BNasimBd.ttf', ^ Error: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Player 10 AS3 Text Layout Engine Dynamic Selectable Embedded TTF&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been building internationalised Flash content for years now and it&#8217;s always been flawed when it comes to languages like Arabic so the most exciting thing about FP10 to me was the Text Layout engine. I&#8217;ve spent the last few days playing round with the Flash Player 10 AS3 Flex 4 Text Layout Engine (formerly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robmccardle.com/wp/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Multiple Face detection in AS3 using OpenCV demo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a mutiple face detection in Flash application running smoothly which is rather nice Thanks a million to Squidder and to the original author of the OpenCV file @ Intel, Rainer Lienhart. The deploy has  a zipped up XML document with Haar Classifier pattern recognition&#8230; The AS3 unzips this data, grabs the blob/face detection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent work &amp; Cross Domain discoveries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been no posts from me for a while as I&#8217;ve been building the AS3 carousel section (eBay items) and a series of DoubleClick Ads utilising Twitter feeds in banners and Ebay listings in banners too.  The ads are in AS2 as the DoubleCick TABS system can&#8217;t yet take AS3 FYI (coming soon, Cheers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AS3 Efficiency &amp; Optimisation tricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found some truly excellent resources on this (Thanks to Gibo &#38; Mike for the links): http://www.lostinactionscript.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/25/fitc-amsterdam-presentation/ http://wiki.joa-ebert.com/index.php/Category:Code_Optimization  I&#8217;ve been trying to save some of these little loops e.g. [code lang="actionscript"] list[length] = item; [/code]which for a simple Array push for example is 3x faster than:[code lang="actionscript"] list.push(item); [/code]out as FDT  snippets called arrPush for example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robmccardle.com/wp/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Grabbing assets out of AIR apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done some work in the past with the Konfabulator (Now Yahoo! Widgets) widget patform and the workflow (no IDE) was that you used to rename the .widge files to .zip and decompress in order to view the JS and XML source. I was nosing at a few AIR apps today (Frienddeck and a Merapi AS3 to Java bridge application [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robmccardle.com/wp/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Excellent free HTML Editor for Eclipse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doing some AS3 projects in FDT (Eclipse plug in) with FlashVars &#38; SWFAddress and it&#8217;s so good being able to pop into a decent HTML Editor in the same IDE. It&#8217;s just as good as EditPlus &#38; free. Lovely. Just drop the .jar in your plugins directory. Details and Sourceforge link here  addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robmccardle.com%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D52'; addthis_title [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robmccardle.com/wp/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Tech news that beggars belief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly it would appear that Lord Carter&#8217;s vision for Digital Britain involves speed reducing, litigation fuelling ISP snooping DRM nonsense á la China, Syria and Australia read more here &#38; behold the zeitgeist in action: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/10/cory-doctorow-digital-britain Absolutely not. We will march through the streets of Shoreditch! And also IE8 actually introduces 2 new browsers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robmccardle.com/wp/?p=50</link>
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		<title>PureMVC Forum is ultra useful &amp; friendly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely brilliant forum over at PureMVC. I had some heavy questions today and Cliff &#38; Jason helped me an awful lot with some wide ranging and tricky concepts.  Thanks for the assistance guys addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robmccardle.com%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D48'; addthis_title = 'PureMVC+Forum+is+ultra+useful+%26%23038%3B+friendly'; addthis_pub = 'rmcc';]]></description>
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