http://almostflan.com Yes, I changed it again... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:38:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2010/02/12/externalinterface-error-calling-method-on-npobject/ 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 http://almostflan.com/2009/08/18/powered-by-taaz/ 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). http://almostflan.com/2009/08/12/seattle/ I think I got stupider reading the posts on NBA.com's "Fan Voice". Goddamn people are stupid. I will stop reading now. http://almostflan.com/2009/05/29/the-internet-is-stupid/ 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2009/05/18/flex-css-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 http://almostflan.com/2009/05/11/ballpoint-pens-and-juan-francisco-casas/ 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2009/03/20/new-wp-version-broken-view-source/ 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. http://almostflan.com/2009/03/20/damnit/ Recently I've run into the problem of controlling the size of an embedded swf movie in a Flex application. The size of the stage in Flash didn't match the size of the SWFLoader-loaded component in Flex for some reason. I tried putting a Canvas around it and using ... http://almostflan.com/2009/03/05/clipping-a-swf-loaded-in-a-swf/ Telling lies is a slippery business! http://almostflan.com/2008/12/20/oh-beans/