Sep 19th, 2008 by Dave
Woo hoo! I was pretty psyched when I got the email today stating that Peekaboo Paperie.com won the Adobe Site of the Day Award!
Peekaboo Paperie.com - Adobe Site of the Day Award 9-19-2008
Aug 13th, 2008 by Dave
It's been an insanely busy year so far with tons of things going on. And it's not often PXL Designs gets to show off public facing projects. With that said, I'd like to present PeekabooPaperie.com!
Peekaboo Paperie.com Home Page
Jun 2nd, 2008 by Dave
Version 1.3 released today! Now MyStylez adds the Photobucket api for easy drag/drop functionality so users can access their accounts and build their own, more personalized MySpace layouts.
This is a very cool update for me, because I always preferred Photobucket over Flickr. In the last release, I had worked in the Flickr api using the Flickr AS3 lib on Google Code. After that, I looked around to see if an ActionScript library project was in the works for the Photobucket api, but didn't see one. So a few other developers were interested in starting up a project for it, but then I got a link from Luke Swanson at Photobucket that they already had it covered! That's some kind of timing 
So here is the Photobucket AS3 lib project on Google Code.
An extra thanks to Michael Clark, Luke Swanson and the rest of the team at Photobucket who were an immense help! They were there to help me out quicker than I could blink. The AS3 lib itself was insanely easy to integrate, I worked the same functionality I did for the Flickr api, and it was up and running in less than an hour. Great job to the guys who put together the Photobucket AS3 lib and the api itself!
May 24th, 2008 by Dave
Back by popular demand, Photobucket has a home once again inside MyStylez. In the last version, I introduced the Flickr AS3 API so users can drag/drop and upload pics to use in MyStylez easier, but I took Photobucket out. I planned on working on the Photobucket API to offer the same functionality, which will happen sooner or later, but for now I put it back in the way it was before.
May 1st, 2008 by Dave
In my last post I mentioned I had one more bug to work through to fix MyStylez to get it to work with the AS3 Flickr library. At first I cussed and stared at the wall, but then I traced back through the code and debugged the heck out of it until I found out that the photosets.addPhoto call wasn't behaving properly.
After some googling, I saw the guys on AS3Flickr project already had it covered, I just had a missing patch to the code. Nothing a little Tortoise SVN checkout couldn't fix ok so I was pretty tired working on this one all night, but without further adieu, I present MyStylez + Flickr for your Flickr-ific pleasure!
Apr 30th, 2008 by Dave
Ughhh I'm right there, it works, it's alive....but I have a bug that's driving me to drink. I worked in the AS3 Flickr library with MyStylez to add some Flickr + AIR goodness like drag and drop photos for upload and to use in the MySpace layouts.
The first time I call service.photos.getSizes() (to get the original urls) works great, I fill up a tile list with all my photos. The only thing MyStylez is concerned about is grabbing all the original photos to use for a layout with simple drag and drop. Problem is, after I upload new photos and call photos.getSizes() again I don't get my newest upload.
I migrated the old PXL Blog to this nifty new subdomain for a few reasons. The biggest one being I wanted to use WordPress as opposed to Nucleus CMS, which is what I was using previously. WordPress is just a far superior tool. The other reason was because I wanted my nifty new subdomain
So hopefully, it's not too much of a pain to switch to the new rss feed if you're a current PXL Blog reader, but believe me, I saved us all a lot of grief by moving to WordPress 
Anyway, welcome! All old posts, comments (and hopefully trackbacks) were imported successfully, after many an agonizing hour of combing through mysql databases and php scripts - whew! It's an awesome day outside and I think it's the bosses duty to take sunny Friday afternoons off to drink copious amounts of beer.
Apr 8th, 2008 by Dave
I'd like to say Congratulations to the winners of the first ever Attest contest! In no particular order, they are:
Gareth Arch
Clearwater, FL - USA
flexfusion.archfamily.com
Maciek Maliborski
Third rock from the Sun
http://maliboo.pl
R. Jon MacDonald
Portland, OR - USA
http://www.jonnymac.com/blog
Hassan Elousami
The Netherlands
h DOT elousami AT uvt DOT nl
Nice work! All four of whom answered within minutes of my posting the contest They each emailed the correct answers to the previous post's questions for the contest:
Answers:
1. internal
2. Paris, Texas!!!
3. True
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Apr 8th, 2008 by Dave
Did you know that you can get the Flex 3 Developer certification (when that becomes available) for $50, 30-60 questions, in an hour or less, from your desktop?
How can it be? Adobe recertification exams my friend For any current ACE's holding the Flex 2 certification, the price is $50 for 30-60 multiple choice questions on only the new product features, you can take it via the web and get your Flex 3 Developer cert when it becomes available. In fact, you must successfully complete the recert exam within 90 days of the Flex 3 exam's release to keep your ACE status current.
So rumor has it that the Flex 3 exam won't be ready for many months to come. Here's what I'm thinking, why not grab the Flex 2 certification if you haven't already? There's so much material available to help you pass, this time last year there wasn't a ton. Flex 3 is brand new and by the time that exam is available there will be more study/practice material but in the meantime, wouldn't it be easier to study for Flex 2 while the exam's still available and just take the recert in a few months time? Indeed it would!
That brings me to my next idea. I've been hearing great things from people who have used Attest to study for the Flex 2 certification. Not only are they passing, but they're getting incredible scores! Does my heart good that it was a worthwhile project, I had my doubts at first, but Attest seems to have fulfilled it's purpose.
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UPDATE: The contest is over, we found our winners! Nice work! I'll post their names in a new post, and the answers are in the comments section
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Apr 7th, 2008 by Dave
MyStylez 1.0.9 was released today with a cool HSlider for sorting/filtering templates in the layout browser. That'll make it easier to sift through the designs quickly as I add more premade templates, especially once theres a ton of them (when this will happen, I have no clue). Very cool to see MyStylez working great on the PC and Mac, I love me some Flex/AIR 
Screen shot of the filter/sorting feature:
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