Author Archives: Conrad

Cuda Grids, Blocks and Threads – A Little Utility

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Conrad

Initially one of the things that can be very confusing when learning CUDA is the whole Grid, Block and Thread parcelling up of the work. Even though I am soon to be giving a talk about CUDA, I suddenly discovered today … Continue reading →

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GPU Programming Talk – A Little Sneak Preview

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Conrad

Wow, its been over a year since I last posted to my blog. I have been so busy and doing so many ‘important’ things, I have forgotten to do any fun things! That’s all changing now as I am preparing … Continue reading →

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Making a Maven Out Of A Molehill Update 1

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Conrad

The molehill enabled Flex SDK available on Flashnexus has now been updated to the latests incubator version 11.0.1.3d, latest playerglobal release 051211 and the official stable flex 4.5 release 4.5.0.20967. In order to use this SDK you need to add … Continue reading →

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Making a Maven Out Of A Molehill

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Conrad

If, like me, you use maven to build your actionscript applications and if, like me, you want to play with the molehill 3D API for flash player 11 then up until now it has not been easy. Now however with … Continue reading →

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Using Flex SDK 4.5.0.19786 With Maven

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Conrad

The latest release of Flex SDK 4.5 (Hero 4.5.0.19786) is now available on the flash nexus maven repository. This release was deployed following the instructions in “Installing Flex SDK’s to Maven Repositories”. This release is currently not available from the … Continue reading →

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Installing Flex SDKs Into Maven Repositories

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Conrad

Introduction Automated building of actionscript (flash and flex) applications is becoming more and more important as the Flash Platform starts to mature. It is crucial to have automated builds in order to maintain proper continuous integration and testing practices. If … Continue reading →

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The Problem With Metadata – Part 1

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Conrad

Introduction Recently there seems to be a trend towards using metadata in actionscript to do everything. In particular some frameworks and libraries use metadata for internal application wiring. You just need to look at Parsley and the Cairngorm Navigation Library … Continue reading →

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Flex And The City Source Material

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Conrad

Flex and the City was an excellent 1 day free conference in the centre of London – more please. Here are the slides from my talk on unit testing and continuous integration for Flex/Actionscript. I hope you like it.

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FOTB 2010 Source Material

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Conrad

Morning all. Just back from Flash on the Beach 2010. It was awesome and I will talk more about it later, but for now here are my slides and the full source code to accompany them. I hope somebody finds … Continue reading →

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Are Adobe Listening?

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Conrad

I recently moved to IntellJ for all of my Flex development. This is because I like the very powerful refactorings available with this ide, and the way that it can use POM’s to manage projects. I do still like Flash … Continue reading →

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