Author Archives: Alistair Stead

Where to start learning Cocoa and Cappuccino?

By Alistair Stead | Published: July 8, 2009

I don’t think I’m alone in the fact that over the past twelve months I have been learning Cocoa specifically Cocoa Touch for the iPhone. Apps and tutorials will follow! However I have also been looking at Cappuccino (http://cappuccino.org/) a direct port of Cocoa to JavaScript. The intention of Cocoa and Cappuccino is to make [...]

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Make MDM Zinc applications with the Gaia framework for Adobe flash

By Alistair Stead | Published: July 5, 2009

The Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash is a something I have been using for some time. It is one of the most useful frameworks I have found for use with Flash. It adds a great deal of useful functionality and can generate large swathes of source code that you would otherwise need to write from [...]

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sfPokaYokePlugin symfony Client Side Validation

By Alistair Stead | Published: January 14, 2009

The sfPokaYokePlugin (pronounced with the ‘e’ on the end e.g. poka-yoki). Simply put it is the use of simple mechanisms that stop mistakes being made. sfPokaYoke provides client-side form validation based on existing action.yml validation files. This validator will provide fully configurable inline errors on blur events and listed errors once the form is submitted. [...]

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Hello world!

By Alistair Stead | Published: January 14, 2009

Welcome to yet another wordpress blog. I have spent the last few months trying to complete my symflex cms project but have just not had the time to complete it. So rather than wait any longer and continue to delay my foray into the world of blog writing I have quickly uploaded wordpress and following [...]

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