http://dreamwagon.com/blog Web application development with flex, java and xml Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:47:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year and a half ago I bought Adobe Photoshop CS3 Design Premium. Being a web developer and game developer have relied on these products heavily. I started Photoshop about a week ago and I get:  "Licensing for this product has stopped working" and the program closes Three days later, ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=54 After writing most of my first XNA game using the built in sorting capability of SpriteBatch, I ran into a pretty big problem. I wanted to add a HLSL effect to certain sprites. I followed the instructions I found, setting the SpriteSortMode to Immediate. What I did not realize at ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=48 Three days. Thats how long it took me to even talk about the romping that the Cowboys handed the Eagles this past Sunday. After the game, I told myself I was done with football until the Super Bowl, whether the Eagles get there or not. That would not be me ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=46 For that last month or so I was experiencing a rather frustrating problem. Every time I opened or created a new file, photoshop would hang for a minute or more before opening the file. I tried all the regular optimization tricks, such as defragmenting my drives, changing the scratch space ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=33 Dreamwagon games is proud to announce its first title Fight Monkey of Magic (FMM). FMM is a hybrid role playing fighting game with real time strategie elements. Although an arcade fighting game at heart, Fight Monkey of Magic provides several different ways to win. Play through in arcade mode or team ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=31 Anyone who reads my journal knows that one in three of my entries is some sort of rant, usually regarding NBA officiating. I love the game of basketball. I love to play, love to watch and hopefully one day I will have the opportunity to coach on some level. My ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=24 If the Presidents day storm of 2003 is known as the Blizzard of '03, this coming Presidents day non-storm should be titled "The non-blizzard of 2009." I am a huge weather junky. I love to follow the weather models and keep abreast of the changes in those models at each ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=22 Cforms ii is one of the most powerful plugins available for wordpress. It enables quick form creation with several nice data tracking features. There is also the option to reroute the form submission to a custom script. This is a very nice feature that makes it easy to control what ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=21  I was looking for a way to get the parent ID of the current subpage recently and could not find an available function on the codex pages. I needed this function in order to create a navigation that is always based on the current page. The site I was working ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=20 Beta release 0.09 Download it here This Plugin adds a Flex Accordion Navigation to your wordpress instance. This plugin is perfect for those sites that have out of control links in the sidebar. With Flexible-Navigation you can simple use one function call in the sidbar to generate an accordion navigation. add AddFlexNav(); anywhere ... http://dreamwagon.com/blog/?p=18