Ron Artest is insane and awesome at the same time.

Here is the single he was promoting in the post game interviews where he didn’t answer any questions

Click meh!

It’s better than expected…hehe

And now a small village in Africa will receive a large shipment of 2010 NBA Champion Boston Celtics hats

Lemme start off by saying UGH.

Ok, so I’ve been trying to get swfobject to work with ExternalInterface. The swf and the html are located on the same domain (locally - not running on a server). Upon calling the js function that should have called my as function, it kept giving me the error “Error calling method on NPObject!”.

Anyway, there is a fair amount of documentation on google as to what problems you might be having if you get this error (summarized by this guy reasonably well) but my case didn’t fit any of those criteria.

My code looked like this (latching onto the creationComplete of the Application):

Apparently this is bad. It doesn’t like that I’m passing “Alert.show”.

It works if I do this:

where I define “stupidstupid” in the script portion of the Application.

Anyway, the quick summary is, don’t use Alert.show (other similar calls probably don’t work as well…for reasons unclear to me at the moment).

In my context, there were no cross domain considerations since it was all local.

*shakes fist*

Tags: Error calling method on NPObject!, ExternalInterface

Our Estee Lauder project just launched today.

http://www.esteelauder.com/letsplaymakeover/widget

Some other sites powered by TAAZ.
People en Español
InStyle Magazine
GALA Magazine
Sephora’s Christmas app (out of season now)

And of course,

TAAZ

Tags: estee lauder, gala, instyle, photometria, sephora, taaz, virtual makeovers

I’m moving to Seattle.

Anyone need (or know anyone that needs) a code monkey up there?

I will code for money (WOW gold preferably, but USD will suffice) or food (and by food I mean beer).

I think I got stupider reading the posts on NBA.com’s “Fan Voice”.

Goddamn people are stupid.

I will stop reading now.

CSS has been implemented in Flex, but it has some major shortcomings. One of the main ones is that it does not allow a single component to use multiple styles. Another is that a CSS style cannot inherit (or cascade…imagine that!) from another style. I wrote some code that might help fix that a bit.

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Tags: css, hack, inheritance

I just ran into this guy, he has some pretty cool stuff. His work is mostly just photopainting with ballpoint pens, but its pretty damn cool. I really like seeing people with good photopainting skills, especially in such an unconventional application.

Image source: haha
His website: http://www.juanfranciscocasas.com/
Some press coverage: dailymail

Tags: Art, ballpoint, bic, juan francisco casas, photopainting

Just upgraded to version 2.7.1 of WordPress. Apparently my previous plugin update broke some old posts.

Right-clicking one of my swfs and selected ‘View Source’ won’t work for the time being. I think I’ll try to make some changes on how I do that stuff in the near future.

At the moment, “View source” links to

http://almostflan.com/2008/09/05/using-a-custom-class-as-an-mxml-base-to-completely-style-a-titlewindow/flex/sandbox/srcview/index.html

and it should link to

http://almostflan.com/flex/sandbox/srcview/index.html

I’ll fix this later, but first my taxes…

I recently updated some plugins and it appears to have broken some of my stuff. Working on it.

Thanks to DDDan for pointing this out.