Creating Maps of Source Code
I live in a highly linked environment.
Links, quotations, and cross-referenced source code mean that I waste a lot of mental space on maps of how certain functions call other functions, or how source files include other source files, and in what order.
What if there were automated ways to visualize the links? Ways to create a […]
My Number One Gripe About GMail
wtF is up with no way to forward / manipulate a whole message thread at once???
This is now part of GMail.
ourMedia
…seems like a good idea. Most of the bitching about its Alpha nature seems unfounded; so what if they’ve no good search solution yet — it’s a free storage and presentation vector for all your multimedia. (And once someone writes an appletalk/ftp bridge for it, it’s “goodbye, idisk!”)
http://ourmedia.org/
Unrolling the scope chain in Flash MX
This is a Galilean revelation, and quite lucid.
http://feedmelinks.com/56833
Required reading for anyone who considers themselves a serious ActionScript coder.
The Best Comment I Read in Anyone’s Code Today
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# see code to understand stuff
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Web Standards and Other Pleasant Falsehoods
“We’re waiting for CSS to save us!”
[ this semantic mess ensues: http://feedmelinks.com/31645 ]
…good luck.
a from-scratch Flash pre-loader
For some reason, Flash loaders/pre-loaders have always given me fits. I decided to site down and write one from scratch. As I suspected, it turned out to much simpler than I expected.
http://jm3.net/toys/loader/
No, you don’t need the new MovieClipLoader* classes from Flash MX 2004 professional.
No, you don’t need to spray your content across ten frames, or […]
Twips.
from Macromedia’s Precision Drawing TechNote:
“Particulars: Macromedia Flash MX draws lines in increments called twips, which are 1/20 of a pixel, so you can get precision of 0.05 on your lines.”
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