Archives for March, 2007

Adobe CS3!


On Tuesday, Adobe announced the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3. There are a whole bunch of “editions”. Now I have to figure out which one to get.
All of the premium editions include the three apps I absolutely need: Flash Professional, Photoshop Extended, and Illustrator. At first I was thinking of just getting the Web [...]

coComment


I’m trying out the coComment plugin for WordPress. I like the idea of coComment, but whenever I’ve used it I’ve gotten confused…

Looking at Flash Lite


I recently bought a new cellphone, and it turns out that it supports Flash Lite 1.1. I thought I’d try it out– I’ve developed for cellphones before, using J2ME and BREW, but using Flash for mobile development seems much more appealing.
Alas, Flash Lite 1.x uses a very old form of ActionScript, one that I’d never [...]

A (probably obvious) FLV playback gotcha


So I’ve been learning how to play back FLVs with ActionScript. It’s pretty simple, but my first tests weren’t working. I spent some time scratching my head, because my test was a simple modification of the sample code provided in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash.
What was going wrong?
I had taken the sample code and placed [...]


Daily Wireless names the “10 most connected cities in the world.” Not a single Canadian city among them, alas. Am I surprised? No.

WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, upgrade to 2.1.2 now!!


WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, upgrade!
Just passing on the news, and testing the “asides” feature of this theme.
…and discovering that long links break the layout and the title is ignored in the aside. That sucks.

MySpace layouts are a pain


It seems that my new div-based pet codes are sometimes not showing up on some people’s layouts. Why not?
Due to MySpace’s generally crappy HTML, any CSS layouts have to use stupid selectors like table table table td.text table table div { whatever }. Insanity! See this great post for more insight on MySpace layout nuttiness.
Anyway, [...]