Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
I've always disparaged JavaScript (in a bigoted way), and have only learned, and come to use quite often, ActionScript in the past six months. Both are now roughly based on ECMAScript.
I've always preferred "real" languages to kludgey script languages. (What is a language? That'll have to wait ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I always find myself wanting to edit technical blogs. Not usually for the technical content, usually for the horrible writing. I re-edit my writing all the time, and I struggle with blogging layout to support technical (and elsewhere, non-technical) content. I know it's hard. But it ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Most WordPress themes have little (if any) respect for code and pre tags. I stumbled upon a blog some time ago whose support of said tags I quite liked. I dug up the CSS code and mailed it to myself.
Upon recent cleaning of my inbox I stumbled upon ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Looks to me like a PrintDataGrid / VBox (or likely any parent) sizing negotiation bug that happens when variableRowHeight="true". [15305]
Adobe seems to be responsive on it, so far. Many of the bugs in their system are labeled as "deferred" - just hope this one doesn't end there.
Problem is, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I added the new WordPress plugin to track stats on one of my sites and I wasn't getting any stats. Turns out the theme I'm using is using a different (likely older) footer code than the stats are expecting.
I added a line into the stats code to make it ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Banging my head on some PrintDataGrid oddities, reported as Bug 15305. I suspect some of the code is making the assumption that only one PrintDataGrid will ever exists.
The sizing of the data grids seems oddly tied to previous grids that have been created. Can't figure out exactly the ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
You should always be the squeeky wheel!
I emailed a contact I had in the Adobe documents group (thanks, Matt!) and found out that Adobe was aware of their Dead Docs problem.
But more importantly they provided a link to a downloadable API documents for the Flex/ActionScript 3.0 collection - I'd much ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Open Question: How many PDP-11 emulators could you concurrently run on a 8-core MacPro?
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