Archive for January, 2007

The shakey return of XP

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Well I got XP going again. XP really is a snap to install, I just wish Microsoft wouldn’t annoy us all with this product activation crap.
I’m still disenchanted with MS software in general right now, and having to downgrade to their old OS a week before Vista comes out was definately disheartening. I thought I [...]

Goodbye Vista Beta

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

I’m logging off now to rebuild my computer and remove Vista. Hopefully I won’t be down too long installing XP again, I’m pretty used to that install process. Good luck to me.

technorati tags:Windows, Vista, XP, reinstall, rebuild

Vista currently blows

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

I’ve been using the 64 bit version of Vista for a couple months now (the beta 2), and I was pretty stoked on it (after i spent like three days getting it to run properly). But I think I’m finally tired of it. Maybe the final release will be all it’s cracked up to be, [...]

moving files in tortoisesvn

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

To move files in tortoiseSVN:

Select the files you want to move
Right click and hold on one of them
Drag to the location you want to move
Choose “svn move versioned files here”

You’ll also notice there are some other options, keep finding out new stuff all the time.
Found the info with a quick google search that lead [...]

subversion and flash

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

man, i just pulled my hair out for about an hour getting to the bottom of an annoying issue with Flash. it’s one of those deals where i feel ridiculous in the end, as it’s something i thought about  early on in troubleshooting but failed to check until the end.
Anyway, i kept trying to commit [...]

fullscreen flash centering

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

So while working on a project, i had to center the content pieces in the fullscreen flash. No big deal, just set up an onResize event handler for the Stage and center the stuff when that event is called (you also want your movie at 100% height/width, with scale = noScale).
While resizing the browser though, [...]

wordpress api

Friday, January 19th, 2007

use XML-RPC to communicate with a wordpress blog.
http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Support
and potentially use this for logging in:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#BasicAA

technorati tags:wordpress, blog, api, remote

constant blogging

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Keeping a blog flowing with goodness is certainly a hard feat to maintain if you have a full time job and a life. I just thought this morning how much easier and more useful my blog would probably be if blogging were either a) part of my job, or b) I was my own boss [...]

23C3 – Lawrence Lessig – On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

I’ve seen him speak in person, and it was very much the same type of content as presented in this video. It’s very engaging and worth the time to watch (his talk is about 45 min of the 1hr long video), just so you can be aware that there is an issue that needs addressing [...]

css tab techniques

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

looking for some techniques to making css tabs. I’ll have to modify, but it’s nice to have a starting point some times, especially when someones already gone through the steps to lay the groundwork.
mountaintop style – http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/
sliding door style – http://alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
showcase of examples – http://www.alvit.de/…-showcase.php

technorati tags:css, tabs