These posts were imported from my old Wordpress Blog (which I stopped updating in 2011) and are here mainly for posterity. Although I have tried to clean things up there will be broken links and potentially other issues.
Firstly, I know I’ve been very quiet recently, that’s because a lot has happened recently - which I’ll go into in more detail at another time. The upshot of these changes is I’m now working with Flex quite heavily (YAY!), hence the Flex Tip post.
I’m releasing a Yahoo Widget that I created a long time ago and have been meaning to release for quite a while too.
I know you, just like me, has looked for a cool throbber/loader graphic for your web application more than one. Go on admit it.
I just read a post on Autosport.com on the subject of a failed trademark application for exclusive rights to the abbreviation “F1” and I found it very odd and interesting that the Trademark Registry cited content found on Wikipedia in their response:
I’ve had a site hosting an animation of mine called The Mime since mid 2002. I did have in mind to have for the site to be from the perspective of The Mime from the film and that he would have a diary etc. etc.
A recent tradition in our inter-office messenger chat has been to talk in pseudo-code, usually just because it makes a statement a lot more funnier. Yes it’s a little (ok, a lot) geeky.
Now I didn’t expect to hear this when I came into work this morning:
I’ve read a few stories about people who having been sued by the RIAA for downloading music have stood up and counter-sued or at least fought it in court; but this one looks like it could be one of the best. It looks like they’ve really put some thought (and legal council) into the issue and come up with some great countersuits.
Every so often, in pretty much any field, something comes out or is released that I don’t realise I’ve been missing until it’s pointed out to me. Today it is a little proof of concept for toggling multiple check boxes by click-hold-drag. This is something that I’ve become familiar and comfortable with in desktop programs, but I never noticed it was missing from web browsers. Now this script has pointed out that it’s not there - I miss it.
I decided quite a while ago, probably about 18 months ago, that I wasn’t going to attempt to style form controls any more.
