wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: May, 2005

Flash MX combo box component bug (and a fix for it)

As part of my work, I\’ve been developing a Flash-based software training application. Part of that app involves simulations of the application in question. Yesterday, I discovered a bug in the way the combo box component works. I\’m posting this for the benefit of those who might be wasting their time searching for an answer, [...]

Annual birthday post

Yeah, yeah, it’s my birthday. Thir-ty-five. I don’t have anything interesting to say about it, really. But there’s no denying it. Thanks to all the well-wishers and other do-gooders out there–you know who you are. Scott sent me this link of fifty fun things to do with your iPod. Go read that instead. One they [...]

Beyond Red vs. Blue

The Pew Research Center has issues an interesting report about political beliefs (“typologies“) in the US. They also have a nice quiz (32 questions) you can take to see where you fall in their spectrum. You probably know where I landed.

Jumping on the meme train…

I dont’ know where I saw this one, but the idea is to put each letter of the alphabet into your browser’s address bar and see what pops up for each. I work on two or three machines regularly, so I tried it with the one that’s handy. I empty my cache quite often and [...]

SuperCool Flash App

I noticed this cool flash-based image viewer in use on applez.co.uk‘s site. It’s called PostcardViewer.