I’ve spent a good deal of the last couple days fiddling around with two list applications (they’re both Air apps). The first one, MiniTask takes (as the name suggests) a minimalist approach to task lists. The second one, Simple Tasks V2 is much more complex and has a few of the features that I think … Read more
As a Firefox 3 user, I was mystified when I upgraded from FF 2 to see that a few sites had some very ugly italic text going on. The number of sites not rendering “properly” has steadily grown to the point where I decided to figure out what the hell was going on.
Well it seems that FF3 doesn’t render “Helvetica Neue” very well… in fact it does a very bad job indeed!
I awoke this morning to the BBC coverage of Senator Obama being announced as President Elect. A few times I welled up listening to his victory speech – reminded me of some of Jed Bartlett’s finer oratory moments 😉 Barack Obama certainly has a way with words, but actions tend to be a bit louder … Read more
Kinda taking off from where I was at in this old post of mine, I’m now having some issues with how Flex does it’s calculations for the vertical scrollbar. Specifically when using a TabNavigator component that has Form components as it’s children. Here’s some of the code: . . . The problem is no matter … Read more
For the last week or so I’ve been diving into the world of Flex (after a few false starts with Flex 1.5 and 2 over a year ago). Thought I’d post a few links that have helped out or have been of some interest along the way. Firstly, this one’s closely aligned to my heart … Read more
I just checked out the latest Flash Player release candidate and was interested to see that the file size of the Mac and Linux versions are over 5.45Mb and 3.8Mb respectively. The PC version is still under 2Mb (which is very small for what it’s now capable of). That got me to thinking about a … Read more
For those Aussie’s abroad at the moment and lamenting the demise of Channel 7’s “The Dream” during the Olympics, you’ll be happy to know JJJ have come to the rescue! Roy & HG are broadcasting a half hour wrap up of the days proceedings from their Golden Ring Show website. I’ve exhausted You Tube’s collection … Read more
Well at least it doesn’t allow me to tune my guitar using a microphone (as I was hoping the new features added to the Sound class might). I’m currently away from my lovely Takamine acoustic guitar with built in tuner, and have a fairly dodgy classical to play with at the moment. As I don’t … Read more
I’ve been a bit busy over the last few months. Here’s what I’ve been up to… I’ve moved to the UK I’ve travelled home again for a family reunion I’ve read a good portion of Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3.0 I’ve drunk more Guinness than I care to (or can) remember in Ireland I’ve sold a … Read more
Sorry about the terrible play on words there (I’ve been taking too many literary cues from the Adelaide Advertiser 😉 but I am pretty excited about travelling to the UK next week and attending the London onAIR conference. Obviously it’s a long way to travel from Adelaide, Australia to the UK for a free conference … Read more