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Pre-Processing ActionScript files with cpp on OSX

Back in March 2005, Mike Chambers wrote a couple interesting posts about using cpp, a C pre-processor, to pre-process ActionScript files. He noted that, while cpp is included on Mac OS X, for some reason it wasn’t working for him. Well, I think that I just found the reason. It appears that cpp’s docs and man pages don’t emphasize how picky the tool is about white space. To get the examples to work on my MacBook, I had to make some minor white space modifications. (translate)

Wired Wednesday: 365 Day Challenge

I have decided to take up the 365 Day Challenge this year, and I started January 1, 2009 but you can start whenever. The aim is to take one picture a day and photoblog it. ... (translate)

Image Processing II : Two Ways for Grayscale

There may be many ways to process grayscale but I want to give two examples for it. One of them is very easy like taking average of colors. And the other one is better but uses color matrix. You must define a color matrix to use as image attribute. I like the second algorithm. Anyway, Let's see codes...'--------------------Code-------------------- Public Shared Function GrayscaleAverage(ByVal img As Image) As Image Dim rslt As System.Drawing.Image Dim btmpImg, btmpRslt As New Bitmap(img.Width, img.Height) btmpImg = DirectCast(img, Bitmap) btmpRslt = DirectCast(img, Bitmap) Dim rC, gC, bC, lum As Integer For i As Integer = 0 To (translate)

The Right Stuff - attraction, engagement, retention in a hyperconnected world

An interesting question popped up on one of my LinkedIn groups this morning: “Anyone else finding it hard to recruit at the moment?” I don’t often answer in LinkedIn groups, finding that I want to add infrequent value rather than be a chatterbox. But this question got me to thinking, particularly thinking back over a number of conversations, blog [...] (translate)

A Graphic is a MovieClip is a Sprite

Spent some hours figuring out a bug that others may want to know of if they get Flex assets as SWFs generated with the Flash IDE. If you create a "Graphic symbol" in Flash and later change it to a MovieClip in the library of the IDE, it will look like a MovieClip but it is still considered a Sprite by the Flex 3 compiler. The error I got was this: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter... (translate)

Blogging as a Development Tool

As a designer and developer with a day job, I find it very difficult to find the time to sit down and really get my hands dirty with projects. I have had several ideas come through my head that I would have loved to build and design, but ultimately, the time didn’t permit it. I was determined [...] (translate)

Old Photoshop Galleries Breaking with Flash Player 10

I have a number of old photo galleries generated from Photoshop CS2. A few of them are Flash based gallery.  Recently, I discovered that these were no longer loading and giving me a Flash Player not detected error.  The galleries in fact DO work, and if you click on the pass thru link you will [...] (translate)

Apple Does Away with Keyboard With Announcement of MacBook Wheel

Barry from work just showed us this post from the Onion. It’s hilarious. (translate)

DuplicatAIR: Batch Duplication Utility

DuplicatAIR is a batch duplication utility for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The DuplicatAIR utility quickly duplicates files and folders using numeric or custom naming. The numeric naming option allows the user to set a range of values and includes a “minimum digits” setting which can automatically add zeroes to the file names to [...] (translate)

Getting Started with cfSpec

Ron has posted a great step-by-step tutorial for writing testable specs with cfSpec. Using an e-commerce shopping cart as an example, he builds up the spec, one expectation ... (translate)

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