I have been investigating options for a “flipbook” view in Flex. There is one from Ely Greenfield of QuietlyScheming called FlexBook, released in March 07, and another one by Ruben Swieringa just called Book, released a few months afterward.
I will probably go with Ruben Swiergina’s one, simply because it has API docs, and it took [...]
So I’m digging into the specifics of the new textLayout API on Labs, and I’m wondering, after I’ve been able to get the text just-so on the screen, how this will translate to print?
Can Coldfusion, for instance – I’m referring to that because it’s Adobe’s pet server technology, not because I have any affection for [...]
Adobe has put up an API on Labs that makes use of the low level capabilities of the flash.text.engine package in Flash Player 10. Just downloaded and having a look at the examples. This is huge … Flash (meaning the player, and therefore Flex also) has sucked really badly at text for so long.
Now we [...]
For anyone using the Lorem Ipsum classes in my open source Almirun Common Libraries, update svn. Some changes and bug fixes are in there. All thanks to Quentin at Toki-Woki.
I recently switched internet provider, and I’m on a plan that has peak and off-peak usage times, with a separate bandwidth quota for each. Since the off-peak period is 4am to 9am, and I’m don’t get up early enough (or go to sleep late enough) to ever see 4am on a weekday night, I was [...]
So Obama got in. In Chomsky’s analysis last month, he likened the Democrats and Republicans to two wings of a single “Business Party”, divided only by minor differences in the implementation of a broad neoliberal consensus, but that those small differences can make an awful lot of difference to people’s lives. I think his analysis [...]
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