When building a Linux machine, sometimes it becomes necessary to set up cron jobs to transfer files or logs from one machine to another on a regular basis.  If this is the case, I recommend setting up password-less SSH from one machine to the other.  I decided to post about this here because it always took me a while to find the right commands or tutorial online to get it to work.  Finally I found a great post from the Debian Administration team.  Here is quick summary/tutorial.

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A friend of mine sent me an email asking how to import compiled (.swf) movie clips into Adobe Flash on the fly. Luckily, it’s quite simple, so I decided to write a quick article on it.

In Actionscript 3.0 (the version he is using) you can use the Loader class. The Loader class only needs a URLRequest to import the file you want.

In the following example I’m going to want to import a compiled file called Child.swf that is in the same directory as the one we are running this from.

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While working on one of my projects, iTunes Portable AppStore, I needed to figure out how to read the same data iTunes does while browsing the AppStore. It took a good amount of investigation, but I eventually found out how to read and parse the data for the information I required. Here are the conclusions I came to.

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