http://almostflan.com Yes, I changed it again... Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:05:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2008/08/16/moosechips/ 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2008/08/13/a-nice-wordpress-plugin-for-including-swfs/ http://almostflan.com/2008/08/10/so-we-went-to-red-robin/ http://almostflan.com/2008/08/07/i-had-pho/ In Flex, if you have a custom slider thumb, it will always be scaled to a set size that Flex wants (I think 20x20). For example, [cc lang="actionscript"] [/cc] would give you this: [swfobj src="http://almostflan.com/flex/sandbox/sliderThumb.swf" height="100" width="300"] To fix this, I wrote a class that extends SliderThumb and sets to the measured size of the skin ... http://almostflan.com/2008/07/16/custom-width-and-height-of-flex-slider-thumb/ So I made flan last night. and we scared the shit out of it :D http://almostflan.com/2008/06/27/flan/ Mmmmm.... http://almostflan.com/2008/06/19/my-dinner-tonight/ 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. http://almostflan.com/2008/06/18/gorillas-demo/ 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: [gallery] Yes, I now own a GPS :) Side ... http://almostflan.com/2008/06/01/geohash-success/ 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 ... http://almostflan.com/2008/04/19/my-2008-nba-playoff-predictions/