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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On The Importance of a Good Host
On this, this chilly Michigan day, I share with you my list of hosting providers, for those good people out there of no account, or any of you who believe, in these uncertain and barbaric times, in the importance of a good host.
http://feedmelinks.com/f/4003
Public Reflection added to UsemodWiki
I extended UsemodWiki to support making pages “public”. [what is a wiki, you ask?] I use my wiki as a “scratchpad,” as pheezy put it — a place to take notes, jot down ideas and lists of things to do, and generally keep handy snippets of text close at hand. My perl hacks to UsemodWiki […]
An open letter to Nokia regarding call log data
One shortcoming of Nokias in general and Nokia Lifeblog in particular, is the lame handling of call log data. My phone has a 64mb card, but it only stores the last 20 calls made. WTF is that?
I want my phone to have the option of logging every call made, missed, and received, ever! The […]
On Image Uploads and Thumbnailing
I’ve been thinking lately about images and thumbnails. Supporting images is a complete and total non-budgeable requirement for any software whose audience is real people. People connect with images. Period.
That means that we need to support image uploads, which could be a problem in terms of bandwidth and speed for users uploading from their mobile […]
Huff, Puff, METADATA
humorously, for a new project i’m working on, i created a metadata inflater in perl. it’s raison d’etre is to convert nokia’s lifeblog-format SMS files to something we can load into our DB. nokia doesn’t store any of the relevant metadata within the SMS files, so since it’s only test data, i make up the […]
…C.I.A.?
No, the government’s not after your source code (unless it’s DeCSS or something).
CIA is a website for viewing changes to source control repositories. It’s great stuff.
CIA connects to subversion, CVS, or bitkeeper — your version-control system of choice. In short, you download a CIA client for your system and hook it to your VC server. […]