almostFlan

Moosechips

Frank Lam — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:05:06 +0000

So earlier this month, I set Kristi up with wordpress (as I have in the past with lots of other people). For some weird reason, the site was developed quickly and she actually posts on it… :O

Check it out here

If anyone else wants a wp blog for the price of a domain registration, I can host it

In other news, Team USA demolishes Spain???

I did not see that one coming…

Anyway, maybe my thoughts on that at a later point.

A nice wordpress plugin for including SWFs

Frank Lam — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:25:26 +0000

I did some searching for a good plugin to embed swf files into wordpress posts and it seemed like lots of the ones I turned up were rather dated until I ran into this one by Matt Carpenter. It uses the latest version of the SWFObject project and is compatible with Wordpress 2.6.

So we went to Red Robin…

Frank Lam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:10:42 +0000

I had pho

Frank Lam — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:49:46 +0000

Custom width and height of Flex Slider thumb

Frank Lam — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:35:55 +0000

In Flex, if you have a custom slider thumb, it will always be scaled to a set size that Flex wants (I think 20×20).

For example,

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

"http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 

        backgroundColor="#ffffff" 

        width="300" height="100">

    "@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')" />

would give you this:

The Flash plugin is required to view this object.

To fix this, I wrote a class that extends SliderThumb and sets to the measured size of the skin image:

package controls.sliderClasses {

    import mx.controls.sliderClasses.SliderThumb;

    import mx.core.mx_internal;

    use namespace mx_internal;

    public class FlexibleSliderThumb extends SliderThumb {

        override protected function measure():void {

            super.measure();

            measuredWidth = currentSkin.measuredWidth;

            measuredHeight = currentSkin.measuredHeight;

        }

    }

}

Now, modifying the mxml file like so:

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

"http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" 

        backgroundColor="#ffffff" 

        width="300" height="100">

        [CDATA[

            import controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb;

        ]]>

        thumbSkin="@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')" 

        sliderThumbClass="{controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb}"/>

gives you this:

The Flash plugin is required to view this object.

Flan

Frank Lam — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:12:29 +0000

So I made flan last night.

and we scared the shit out of it

My Dinner Tonight

Frank Lam — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:38:07 +0000

Mmmmm….

Gorillas demo

Frank Lam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:16:14 +0000

I wrote an Flex app yesterday as a demo of component lifecycle and metadata tag usage.

It’s a remake of the classic Gorillas game.

You can play it here.

The source code is here.

Geohash success!

Frank Lam — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:55:24 +0000

So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm as featured in this comic and made easy by this site and documented by this site, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday. Our expedition was added to the wiki here.

Some pictures:

Yes, I now own a GPS
Side story: We left home at around 2:45PM to Fry’s since Kristi’s Garmin (GPS) didn’t display coordinates. We got to Fry’s probably around 3:15 to pick up a GPS that showed coordinates. (Garmin Nuvi 200!!) Anyway, we were able to get to the front of the Fry’s line (it was around 3:30 and we still needed to get to Encinitas at 4:00PM for the scheduled meeting time - around 15 miles away) thanks to the badass Fry’s salesman that sold me the Nuvi after I told him we were in a rush. We ended up making it to the meetup point in Encinitas at 3:58 and got pictures at exactly 4:00PM. So the Hero of the Day award goes to the nameless Fry’s salesman.

Side story 2: We went to Home Depot afterwards to buy wood for the old radio to convert to a gaming computer. More on this next time…

Postscript: A new almostflan coming soon…
Post Postscript: Lakers are in the finals!!! I’ll post on how my predictions went later (after the finals…)

My 2008 NBA Playoff Predictions

Frank Lam — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:11:42 +0000

I thought I’d put together a bracket for the playoffs starting in a handful of hours. It’s been a crazy year and there are lots of very interesting first round matchups…

There will be 14 series played, I think I’ll be pretty happy if I get 7 or so right.

I’ve got the Lakers winning it all of course and naturally Kobe taking the Finals MVP.

Some interesting things:
-Wizards beating the Cavs, then losing to Boston in 7
-Philly losing in 7 to Detroit
-7 of the 14 series are 7 game series

Anyway, it’s been a fun season. I’m only pretty sure about the outcome of 3 of the 8 first round matchups:
-Orlando over Toronto
-Boston over Atlanta
-Wizards over Cavs

My predictions