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Remove tags from a string in AS3

A couple of months ago I integrated a nice WYSIWYG editor written in Flex in my CMS. It worked fine, till yesterday I needed to add more features like text formatting and font color changing. As you know the Flex RichTextEditor component adds some additional tags that I definitely don't want to send to the database. So I wrote a simple function to remove these tags.

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Trace JSON object in AS3

I'm absolutely sure that all of you are working with JSON objects. It's pretty helpful to be able to print them and find out what exactly they contain. I wrote a simple function that makes this possible.

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Remove html tags from a string wtih PHP

Sometimes you don't need any formatting. That's just a nice way to remove all the html tags.

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PHP: find links in a string and replace them with actual html link tags

Currently I'm working on an application that gets data from Twitter. The tweet's string contains links that have to be transformed into html link tags. Here is a simple PHP function that helped me.

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Creating simple WYSIWYG editor with AS3 (Flex)

There are dozen of JavaScript WYSIWYG editors available, but most of them are too complicated and a little bit buggy. From time to time I'm using my own tool to provide such kind of functionality. It accepts and exports valid html. I decided to share it with you and explain how I built it.

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AS3: Tracing in Flash/Flex

Inspired by the article of Dru Kepple I decided to share my experience in Debugging processes in flash/flex enviroment.

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Cleaning up <pre> tag content

I'm blogging for different technologies, but very often I need to add some code in my articles. This little PHP function helps me to keep the text in my <pre> tags clean for prettify. It simply removes the <br>'s and keeps the html tags.

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