I've been quiet on the blog front for a while.  I was having a rough time scuba diving in the tropics and so on... If you're interested, take a look at some of my holiday pics I uploaded on facebook.

Now back to business.

At Learnosity, I've been working on migrating our core Flex 3 app to Flex 4.  One of the problems I encountered was embedding an external swf file into the main app. I was getting the following error:

#1053 Illegal override of activate in mx.managers.SystemManagerProxy

It turned out that my Flex 4 app didn't like the external swf because it was compiled with SDK 3.0.  Sounds obvious, but it took me half a day to figure it out :)  I compiled my external swf with SDK 4.0 and everything worked beautifully.

So the lesson learnt is that if your app has other project dependencies, make sure they are all compiled with the same SDK version and you should be sweet.

Marko

I would like to welcome my dear sister to the blogosphere - the yellowtrace blog.  She has been blogging for about a month and I'm amazed with the number of ideas and thoughts she has shared in such a short period of time.  I find her blog posts very inspiring even though we have completely different careers and characters.

She's a very talented Interior Designer and I'm just a code buster.
She's cool and I'm not.
She's extremely creative and I'm not.
Her blog posts are exciting and mine are not.
These are just some of the differences between us, but the key difference is: I can build a good Website and she can't :-)

Best of success sis!

I've been thinking about blogging for a few years now and one of the main reasons for my hesitation was the commitment. These days, I feel a lot more settled :) and I feel that I should start contributing to the community, which has been very helpful to me and my professional career.

For those of you who don't know me, I come from an engineering background. I graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney in 2003 with a Computer Systems Engineering degree under my belt. I currently work as a Senior Web Applications Developer at Learnosity and I feel very privileged to work in a small team of experts. I occasionally do a bit of work for markomedia when I hear someone say "Hey Marko, I need a Website".

I have a strong passion for web technologies and in this blog I will be sharing my web experiences with the world. I specialise in Adobe products, but lately I've been embracing open source technologies. My interests in life are quite diverse, but web stuff is probably the only one worth blogging about. Having said that, don't be surprised if occasionally I blog about a 3 metre shark I came head-to-head with on my regular weekend dive.

Stay tuned
Marko