At first we felt really lucky that we got tickets to the Late Show, Statue of Liberty night cruise, and Newsies while we are in NYC. But then we found out that we could have seen Dave in his new leading role in Newsies and saved the money for the Late Show. (Late Show has […]

ActionScript Error #1006: A user-defined namespace attribute can only be used at the top level of a class definition. Description: This ActionScript error will pop-up when a namespace is declared anywhere besides the class definition. What is a class definition you ask? It is simply the code that names the class - something like 'public […]

ActionScript TypeError: Error #1006: addEventlistener is not a function. Description: This ActionScript error is wonderfully simple. It comes from calling something that you think is a function but Flash doesn't recognize as such. Error #1006 can pop up for a different reason too. Make sure to see my first post on AS3 Error 1006 if […]

I get shin splints. I have ever since I was on the San Rafael Junior High track team launching into the sand pit over and over again as a long jumper. Recently, my cousin Vaughn Jensen talked me into doing the original distance relay race Hood2Coast. So I have been running. I have been running pretty consistently. […]

ActionScript3 Error 1152: a conflict exists with inherited definition in namespace public Description: This ActionScript 3 error is confusing by description but easy to solve. This error will show up when you have one or more names that are duplicated from a  Flash/Flex object to a variable within a class. The conflict error 1152 is […]

ActionScript3 Error 1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid Description: This ActionScript 3 error is caused by several different things. It can be a font embedding issue. It can be an issue with loading a font swf to the same location on a server. It can be several things. One of those reasons is […]

AIR 3.5 and 3.6 SDK for mobile require TLF Text to be merged into code. Because I just spent the last full day dealing with this issue (without finding an answer on any forum) I thought I would share this so that you don't have to bang your head against the wall. You probably found […]

AS3 Error #3104: A SQLConnection must be open to perform this operation. Description: This AS3 error is really straight forward and easy to fix. It means that you have to open the Database before you can put anything in or take anything out. (or change anything). You cannot do any interaction with the DB without […]

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It’s a really exciting time around the office these days! So much has been going on here lately that December and January seemed like such a blur. First of all, we announced the companies that are participating in Watershed First, which if you haven’t heard about it, check it out!!! Second, we’ve hired 4 new people. That’s right. FOUR people that all do different and equally amazing things for us! Unfortunately for them, they didn’t start on the same day so they don’t get to take over the title of the Fab Four, so we can call them the Fab 4 2.0. Here they are! Geoff Alday started with us back in December. He’s helping us make the user experience of Watershed LRS even more awesome. The most amazing thing I learned about Geoff is that he’s a real life magician. He knows magic tricks. He has an official "Magician’s Only" card. He amazes me, even if he won’t share his secrets. One day…. Jim Ingram joins our SCORM Engine team, helping Freddie and Matt delight our customers with awesome support and integrations. Jim is now officially the record holder for his quickness in making a joke about me. You see, we have an over/under bet on how long it will take a new employee to feel comfortable enough to make a joke about a coworker (who am I kidding, it’s always me). Jim came in right at 10 days. That’s what I like about Jim… he’s so unexpected! Lizelle van den Berg came aboard the same day as Jim, but she’ll be focused on growing and maintaining relationships with people in the e-learning community. Lizelle has a unique talent for making strangers feel like they’ve known her forever. Lizelle joins TJ as an Ohio State fan and she’s also the first Paleo that Rustici Software has ever employed. We all not-so secretly feel bad for her. Nicki Silverman was our most recent hire. She came on to help us wow our Watershed customers with her awesome project management skills. We’ve given her a pretty big first project, managing the Watershed First integrations, but we know she can handle it. Unrelated, she spent an entire summer practicing yoga 8 hours a day to become a certified yoga instructor. Hopefully one day she’ll teach me how to look less dumb when I do yoga posing. And there you have it! Four new Rusticians that I couldn’t be happier to welcome into our ever-growing, happy family!