Isn’t it a great feeling when a project that you’ve been working on for a long time finally goes live?
Introducing Makebook: a web app that lets you create books and manage a library of stories, recipes, poems, whatever … I’ve been developing the Flex front end for about 7-8 months now, and it’s been [...]
The latest version of Quentin T’s Boks, a visual grid editor for Blueprint CSS, is out. I’m pleased to notice (thanks to Quentin’s head up) that to generate random text, it uses part of my Almirun Common Library, which in turn connects to the Lipsum service. Isn’t open source ace.
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 one or [...]
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.
Look at this bug on Adobe’s Jira. It’s not a show-stopper but it’s pretty annoying: FB keeps eating half the imports in any of my classes that use the flash.text.engine package, any time it adds an import. For some reason it “knows” about ElementFormat and TextElement but it doesn’t “know” about TextLine and GroupElement (and [...]
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