I just bought a license for the excellent Scrivener. What a well behaved and intuitive piece of software it is. I always hated word processors and I wasn’t sure why. Now I understand: because they don’t work like Scrivener does – where the structure is built around ideas, not around page-setting and typography.
Called TPG to ask them what is up with my connection (packet loss, dropouts, etc) and listen first to their current “known issues” recorded message: “There are no known issues”. Yet when I select the option to speak to a human being, there is no one to take my call, “due to an influx of [...]
I own a copy of Apple’s iWork 08, and the features in the 09 version look pretty good – enough to tempt me to reconsider using different software for actual writing (I am trialling the excellent Scrivener and think I will buy it when the trial expires) and for document preparation. But – where’s the [...]
I have recently started using (yet) another piece of bug tracking software – FogBugz – and I’m struck by how mediocre it is. Not particularly bad (like the hideous Bugzilla), just not good. Isn’t it strange that there are so many systems like this, and that they are nearly all so uninspiring? I would have [...]
I just made one of those little spinning things you get on the Mac – not the colourful wheel that means something is wrong, just the calm little thing with spokes. It’s on Firefox tabs. I’m not sure what it’s called – I’ve called mine an ActivitySpinner. See an example here – view source is [...]
I’ve written a simple implementation of a doubly linked list in AS3. There’s an interface for the linked list itself, a basic implementation (ConcreteLinkedList) and an interface for the node. I haven’t bothered writing an implementation for LinkedListNode, it’s just two properties and an equals() method. Docs here, source there.
I have no idea how we managed without Vectors for so long … they are a great addition to the syntax. However. As usual, the documentation leaves a lot to be desired … here’s an example from the LiveDocs, describing the third argument of Vector.splice() – it’s a loosely typed argument: An optional list of [...]
There are some principles in software development that are taken for granted among, say, Java or Objective C developers, that seems to escape a large number of Flash / Flex developers. The reason for this is possibly that a lot of Flash devs are actually designers who have moved into development (I would say “failed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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