http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/index/ Flash stuff and Web Geekery en mike@oddhammer.com 2010-05-18T13:21:16+00:00 Off Topic http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/ncdevcon_conference_this_weekend_in_raleigh_nc/ 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.  Off Topic 2010-05-18T13:21:16+00:00 Adobe http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/steve_just_lost_a_customer/ 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… Adobe 2010-04-30T03:26:37+00:00 http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/five_gallons_of_milk_in_a_four_gallon_box1/ Just posting this because maybe it will help someone... I decided to try using a TextLayout component in a SWF loaded into a rather large Flex app that has been in development for some time.. well.. it blowed up. Main Thread (Suspended: VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.text.engine::ContentElement could not be found.) Here's the weird part... - The SWF worked fine when viewed directly in the browser (as expected). - If the SWF was loaded into the Flex app which was launched by "run" or "debug" from FlexBuilder... it broke (as expected, see error above). - If the SWF was loaded… 2010-02-04T04:51:27+00:00 FLAws http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/flash_cs4_library_symbol_preview_wonky/ Here’s what it looks like when I click on symbols in the library in CS4.. Those could be symbols of cars, monkeys, baseballs..  it doesn’t matter.  I get horizontal lines.  It’s been this way for a while and I’ve just been avoiding the inevitable reinstall and kind of enjoying the little bit of chaos that this brings into my workspace.  It’s time for it to end though.  I need to see what I’m about to drag out onto the stage instead of it being a surprise.  heh.  My library is a box of chocolates.. I never know what I’m going… FLAws 2009-12-10T04:51:45+00:00 http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/as3_shared_library_issues_with_components/ I'm on Seabrook Island and went for a walk on the beach just after sunset last night. It's a very secluded beach, so there were only a handful of people in the mile or so that I could see up and down the beach. On the return there was a nice surprise in seeing lots of little baby turtles running across the beach to the ocean. I'd seen this on TV before, but seeing it in person was a real treat.. and damn they move fast. All the ones I saw made it safely to the ocean, but after that??… 2009-08-03T14:11:45+00:00 http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/a_tall_and_steady_code_view/ The US space shuttle program is winding down, and being a great procrastinator I’ve waited until the last remaining launches to finally go see one.  So I picked STS-127 to try to view a launch.  The first scheduled launch was just before dawn (so little chance of weather mucking things up), and all that good stuff.  Well, a hydrogen leak ended the first two launch attempts.  This past weekend we made the long trek (about 8hr drive) to Cape Canaveral again to watch it launch.  (it didn’t.. after two more attempts).  I had a lot of work to do so… 2009-07-14T05:01:00+00:00 Flash-General http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/flash_player_10_on_the_omnia_via_skyfire/ A few months ago I finally upgraded my cell phone and went for a Samsung Omnia from Verizon. Before I bought it I read some reviews on it and tinkered around with others in the store and it was one of those “lesser of two evils” things where I couldn’t find anything that was perfect so I picked something that sucked the least.  One of the things about the omnia that I didn’t like was it came with Flash Lite 2.1..  after 3.1 was released.  Ah well.  So I tinkered around some with packaging some little apps that I created… Flash-General 2009-07-06T02:51:05+00:00 Off Topic http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/sr._solutions_analyst_position_philadelphia_pa/ I had a very strange thing happen to me today.  One of my old friends called me to see how I was doing and he asked if I knew any db workers looking for a job.  I had to kind of stop for a moment and pinch myself.  Many of you probably know where I’m coming from when I say that I know a LOT of good IT folks who have lost their jobs over the last year and are still unemployed.  I heard earlier today that many states are seeing unemployment over 11%, so hearing that a good paying… Off Topic 2009-06-20T01:32:47+00:00 Off Topic http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/updated_debt_clock_to_show_over_10000000000000/ It was a day I hoped would never happen, but I sat down this weekend and updated my little US national debt clock to display over $10,000,000,000,000. I say it's a sad day because despite what some people say (that the further in debt our country is the more prosperous we are) I find it hard to believe we're better off because of the debt we've just taken on. The whole concept of "money as debt" just seems corrupt. Then again, I'm not an expert on economics. Maybe having our national debt increasing at the rate of $36 per millisecond… Off Topic 2008-10-06T01:58:33+00:00 http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/dear_adobe/ Some people don't like submitting bug reports about specific issues, but would rather just complain about general problems that bug the crap out of them. For those people there is the Dear Adobe site. I don't particularly like the idea of smearing a company for no good reason, but if the people who are using the site have submitted bug tickets and feel like Adobe is ignoring them then I guess they have every right to complain.. or just use another product. That's part of how free market economics is supposed to work? If you find a better product then… 2008-09-15T13:49:32+00:00