Danny Kopping

I'm Danny Kopping and I'm a Flash Platform Consultant from Johannesburg, South Africa. I'm 21 years old and I run a freelance consulting firm called Danny Kopping Consulting.

Homepage: http://www.dannykopping.co.za

Posts by Danny Kopping

Dynamically controlling cross-domain permissions

March 10, 2010 - 01:12

Posted in Flash, Flex, Security | No comments

What are crossdomain.xml files?
As developer who has ever dipped their toes into the murky pond that is cross-domain configuration with Flash will tell you, it is quite a confusing and somewhat aggravating task to accomplish. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how you can control access to your APIs from Flash applications by dynamically [...]

Balsamiq Mockups – An essential tool for developers and designers

March 3, 2010 - 01:24

Posted in AIR, Tools | No comments

At the risk of sounding like a shameless peddler of commercial software, I would seriously recommend Balsamiq Mockups. Now, let my intentions be clear… I made an agreement with Valerie from Balsamiq that I would write a review of this software on my blog in exchange for a testing license. Look, what can I say… [...]

Accessing services-config.xml values from Flex at runtime

February 11, 2010 - 21:24

Tags: serverconfig, services-config
Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flex, Security | No comments

Recently I found this magic class in the Flex 3 SDK called ServerConfig.

AMFPHP is back!

February 2, 2010 - 15:29

Tags: amfphp, amfphp 1.9
Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Community, Flash, Flex, PHP, Tools | 17 comments

AMFPHP is back!

Truly Cached Flex Modules

January 31, 2010 - 21:56

Tags: cache, caching, Flex, modules
Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flex | 1 comment

I was working on a project recently and I discovered (or possibly misunderstood – see disclaimer) that Flex does not cache modules correctly, or – at the very least – it does not do it effectively according to my tests.