I’ve briefly kept tabs on the blogs the past few months, and only rarely seen a post discussing the economy. Like Carrie says, if you want to write well, write about what you know.  My guess is, we don’t have many economists/software developers/designers blogging on AXNA, or linking to others who match that criteria. I’ve seen a couple over at O’Reilly Radar which didn’t really help in understanding the future.  I’ve seen the posts Techcrunch did about investment firms tightening their budgets, lay offs at prominent west coast tech companies (+ the contrasting new companies who’ve raised funding), and author analysis of what it all means. The only point I can glean from those posts is that it’ll be harder for startups out west to garner funding, thus reducing the amount of new startups that can get their ideas (good or dumb) off the ground faster.
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Little Girl Sings a Strange Jam
Twitter is down, imagine that. Â So, posting this uber-rad, dope, and whack song here instead. Just needs a baseline, and it’s club worthy.
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Fuel Shortage in Georgia?
In central Atlanta, driving home from a friends house, my wife calls.
“My friend came over, but there was no gas on the way here. Â She doesn’t have enough to make it home.”
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Forcing Landscape Printing in Flex 2 & 3
I’ve been working on a Flex app where I needed to force landscape printing to ensure it would print out well.  Relying on the user to choose landscape won’t work.  Steven Sacks had the original solution in AS2/AS1. Darron Schall had some additional advice for Flex 1.5 built upon from Lin Lin’s advice.  I’m using Flex 3 with AS3, so had to build upon their work.  There were also some additional things I needed to do that they didn’t mention.  The additional items are embedding fonts, forcing validation, and making the right choice between vector & bitmap printing.