Monthly Archives: March 2006

DDO Tank fer Hire

I usually stop playing games when I’m really hyped up about working on both professoinal & personal projects. When the pendulum swings the other way because of failure to meet goals thus causing me to be frustrated, stress from deadlines, … Continue reading

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3 year-old prototype bit me

I was having problems with the mx.formatters.CurrencyFormatter in Flex. It takes a number or string, and formats it to look like currency. For example, 1.2567878 can be made to look like $1.25. For some reason, it was not working in … Continue reading

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Adobe Flex 2 Ad, FMUG Breezo, and Sparkle Doesn’t Suck

I’m catching up on the hilarity that can be gained by bequeathing anyone & everyone with a digital video camera and internet access over at Ebaum’s World last Friday evening and spot this Adobe ad on the right side. You … Continue reading

Posted in ActionScript, Expression | 2 Comments

SWF Socket Bitch for Ruby & Capri Sun Wine

Got a call from one of my colleagues asking about something he saw at the AJAX conference up in New York. Some Ruby on Rails guys utilized a 1 pixel by 1 pixel Flash Player 8.5 SWF with a custom … Continue reading

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PodCasting is Hard

PodCasting is hard… not the recording part, however. I’ve been recording myself on cassette tapes since I was 4, long enough to forget how to spell cassette and being forced to utilize my Firefox Dictionary.com shortcut as brain backup. I’ve … Continue reading

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