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I think I'm going to release it as 1.5 first so people can start studying with it. It won't be the 100% full package that I wanted, but at least if I can get a few mock exams out, that should be a big help, and the rest will come along afterwards. A few people suggested releasing a mini-version as soon as possible, so I think it's a good idea.

I have to apologize to Attest users for taking so long with getting this out. It's 100% me working on every aspect of it, and with client workloads and so on, it's been a rough ride. Anyway, now for the good stuff for those of you waiting:

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I figured that things are getting so busy that this one deserves a post on the PXL Blog. I hear about heaps of Flex projects every day, some work out some don't but I thought if any Flexers out there currently looking, I could point you to some people to talk to. The Great Depression 2.0 might be underway, but if you're a Flex programmer, you might weather the storm much better than others.

The one I just heard about is 3 months of remote work in Flex, AS3, C#, and SQL. The project's not through PXL Designs, but I'm thinking 2009 is the year I will be filling seats (at some point). But I wanted to post it up and share some of the Flex goodness. Since I hear about a lot of great gigs, I figured I'd give a holler for any takers.

Almost certainly, at some point this year I'm going to be looking to team up with other developers on some projects, but I figured in the meantime let me just give a shout out for anyone looking for the good gigs that I can't fill. Can't complain about being booked

So if you're qualified, interested and available, give me a yell.

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Yes I'm still alive....sorry about my absense from the blogosphere, but I can't complain as it's been one busy year! With that said, let me get to the point.

Just about every day since Adobe released the Flex 3 Certification Exam, I get emails about the availability of Attest V 2.0 for Flex 3. Sorry to say, I've been SO busy I haven't been able to hit the deadline for Adobe's release of the exam, but it's coming....it's coming!

Attest V 2.0

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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