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	<title>calm in the chaos</title>
	<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au</link>
	<description>Flash, Flex and Technology</description>
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		<title>Flex 4/Air Unit and Currency Converter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first foray into using Flex 4, and it takes off from where I was at with my Converter application (as mentioned here, here and here)  back in September of 2006 (shizzer time flies!).
I&#8217;ve changed the currency conversion to use Google&#8217;s Finance site, which means far more accurate conversions are occurring now.
I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2010/02/16/flex-4air-unit-and-currency-converter/</link>
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		<title>My babies alive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.wrench.com.au/
Initially built using AS2 but never launched in 2006 (due to time constraints i.e. doing real work), the domain that was supposed to showcase my wares remained as a coming soon page for nigh on 4 years. Finally the bullet was bitten in the latter part of 2009 and the decision to port the entire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2010/02/09/my-babies-alive/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Approval Rating - Non US citizens have your say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been interested to see the response to President Obama&#8217;s approval rating dipping below 50% and it made me wonder, what if the rest of the citizens of the world got a say in this rating&#8230;? So now I&#8217;m giving you that chance! If you&#8217;re not a citizen of the US, how do you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2010/01/23/obamas-approval-rating-non-us-citizens-have-your-say/</link>
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		<title>Loaded swf obscuring mouse events in overlapping movieclips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time no read. Been busy with a large Flex project, plus I&#8217;ve been trying to see a bit more of Europe - but thought it was about time to get back onto some blogging. That and I&#8217;ve come up against something that I can&#8217;t seem to figure out (and it doesn&#8217;t look like anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/10/20/loaded-swf-obscuring-mouse-events-in-overlapping-movieclips/</link>
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		<title>A wolf in sheeps clothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is a bit off topic but I attended Oxegen festival in Ireland recently. The music was good, the weather was crap, the punters in my campsite were worse. Some little bastard thought it would be funny to go into my tent and spread my belongings all over the campsite. Not cool. I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/07/21/a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/</link>
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		<title>Tilt Shift Air App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just spent the last 15 minutes mucking around with a cool AIR app called TiltShift. It basically lets you create images using a technique called Tilt Shift Photography. The app does a rather nifty job I must say, here&#8217;s what I knocked up in around 15 minutes from the back catalogue of images on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/06/04/tilt-shift-air-app/</link>
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		<title>Flash Catalyst or Catastrophe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the large number of blog links regarding the news from Adobe labs that Flash Catalyst is now in public Beta; naturally I had to download and have a go myself.
My first impressions are not good.
It seems like they&#8217;ve decided to invent their own usability best practices for the tool shortcuts. Where the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/06/01/flash-catalyst-or-catastrophe/</link>
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		<title>2009: the year of the alternative energy oxymoron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so it&#8217;s actually the international year of astronomy - but I&#8217;d like to decree in a fairly dictatorial manner that it should be the year of alternative energy (and that&#8217;s not to say that I&#8217;ve got anything against astronomy ;-)
In fact, I put it to you that not only should this year be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/03/25/2009-the-year-of-the-alternative-energy-oxymoron/</link>
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		<title>Breaking news: Good triumphs over evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well on this website it does anyway
;-)
Had to take a bit of a  break from the project I&#8217;m currently working on&#8230; think I&#8217;m being driven slowly insane by Flex.
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		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/02/13/breaking-news-good-triumphs-over-evil/</link>
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		<title>as3 casting issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Either I&#8217;m going slightly mad or casting using the &#8220;as&#8221; keyword works differently to the old way of casting. 
Here&#8217;s some code to illustrate:

showFormItem = (((e.target as CheckBox).selected as String) == _local.displayTriggerValue[i]) ? true : false


Now this gives a different result to:

showFormItem = (String((e.target as CheckBox).selected) == _local.displayTriggerValue[i]) ? true : false

WTF?!
I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.wrench.com.au/2009/01/15/as3-casting-issue/</link>
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