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Just putting in a last minute pitch for a good thing:

There’s a FREE Web conference going on this weekend in Raleigh, NC that covers Flex, ColdFusion, AIR, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, and other web goodness.  The schedule looks good, there’s a networking party Saturday evening, and the hotel rate is decent.  So go.

And bring your business cards…  the next time I’m asked if I know any web gurus looking for work I need some names and numbers. 

My Mac Pro is starting to get kind of dated and I've been lusting after some of the newer/faster systems out there. I'm ambO/Sdextrous and spend my day working back and forth between a pc and a mac and had started to get tired of the minor issues I have working between the two systems so I had considered a tricked out pc with Windows 7. I wasn't too happy with Apple when they decided to change their licensing agreement and shaft Flash developers... that wasn't very cool of them.. Then I saw that Keith Peters went back to the dark side... and now.. well.. let's just say Steve's little rant sealed the deal for me.

So I'm enjoying some of the comments on his "pot calling the kettle black" tirade like this one, and this from icrontic. ha. And it's good to see some of the comments like the ones on this article... lolz.. some people do understand that while HTML5 is a great improvement, it's a very different tool from Flash.

I figure it might be Christmas before I slow down enough to go through the hassle of switching files and everything over to a new system, but when I do get that time I'll probably be getting a nice high end gaming system. One that can play Crysis.

I was working on a Flash project, and needed a way to quickly strip the carriage returns out of some XML so I could paste it into the JavaScript that I was using to send the data into the SWF (I know there are better ways.. ) and came up with this code...


(((edited to add that this was an ANCIENT post.. and it's much easier to just use something like mystring = string.split("\n").join(""); )))

I played around for a few minutes with the Flash MX ActionScript drawing methods..  curveTo, and lineTo.

Basically I started with the Macromedia example for curveTo which is supposed to draw a circle (but doesn’t) and went off. .  check it out at http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/curveto.html