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Archive for April, 2005

MM’s pathetic excuse for an article on optimizing video conferences with FlashComm

( News )

Having had issues recently with FlashComm, mainly synchronization issues between audio streams and video streams, I was thrilled to see Macromedia’s new Developer Center article, Optimizing Video Conferences with Macromedia Flash Technologies. I have no idea how this one got through QA. This 45 page article is badly written, offers virtually no information, and masquerades […]

[OT] AMFPHP logo poll - who stuffed the ballots?

( News and Remoting and PHP )

I have a feeling there is something fishy with the AMFPHP logo poll. Last time I checked, there were 400 votes, and now we’re at about 800. If I remember correctly, #1 had a very large lead and now it has been largely supplantedby the previous runner-up #3. I wouldn’t want to accuse anyone of […]

AMFPHP sample files and applications: suggestions and call for help

( Remoting and PHP )

Now that the most of the docs and the source code is laid down for AMFPHP 1.0, it’s a good time to think about sample files and example applications. The official 1.0 release should contain a folder with ready-to-use services and sample apps that one can play with. Now I wouldn’t want to reinvent the […]

Flex-style UI components, themes and other reasons Keith Peters is a genius

I just finished bug-fixing an app of mine I made quite some time ago that uses the built-in Flash UI components. Looking at the finished product, the interface lacked a bit of polish, I thought; the components looked really good when they came out of the box a year or so ago, but now they […]

[OT] Some huge freaking radio buttons

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Firefox allows you to set the height and width of radio buttons apparently. Check this out:

Choose me Or me

Freaky. Edit: IE works too.