It seems like it would be easy. A large background image in the back of your flex app that doesn’t stretch the entire width and height of your browser. Unfortunately the CSS control of the current version of Flex does allow for the positioning of the background. But here is a solution…

Let’s just get this out of the way first. If you read any online review of the book The Shack then you will inevitably see someone post a negative comment about the book. Then no matter how solid the points are and no matter how clearly they are stated, inevitably someone replies in the book’s defense by saying, “It’s just a fictional novel.” The points are not rebutted. The points are not challenged. They are dismissed by this one simple statement.

In a previous post I showed how I sent XML out from ActionScript 3, here is how I parsed it in ColdFusion and created a PDF.

As I was searching the web trying to find out how to do this all I found was the opposite scenario, XML to an arrayCollection. When I finally did find a bulletin board post on this, all it said was, “LOL. Everyone always asks this.” That wasn’t so helpful so I figured I would write something up.

It’s happening all around the world. Blogs are either being left unattended for months at a time or worse yet, becoming victims of what’s commonly known as “mercy killing.” After all, who has time to write a semi-complete thought when you can just spit out a single sentence about what’s on your mind?

Well, this is my declaration to get this thing going again. Not right at this moment though. I’m too tired to write anything of substance and I have some work to do for my day gig.

Well it looks like a logo redesign is in order for guiroo. (Oooo, a good opportunity to use some of those new typefaces.) It seems that the nature of the web is changing and the visual of a kangaroo is not as appropriate as it was at the turn of the millennium.
The idea of the web page refresh is going away. No more … click, load, view, click, load, view, click, load, view, click, load, view. With different technologies like Flex and AJAX becoming more predominant, the web is becoming less bouncy and more fluid.
Still not sure what I’m talking about? …

Here it is July 2008 and I am still running Tiger on my iMac. Leopard came out last Fall I believe. Every once in a while I get the urge to jump in the car, go to the mall, and buy Leopard. I was thinking about doing that after I cut the grass tonight but I just saw this on Apple.com.
“Apple previews OSX Snow Leopard to developers…will enhance the performance of OS X…is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the vast computing power of graphic processing units (GPUs), enables breakthrough …

Test your font skills on The Rather Difficult Font Game
I scored 27 out of 34.

Oh look, I missed posting for a whole month. Been busy.Just redesigned: www.forGodsfame.org Check it out! Lots more to do! 

I purchased an iPod Shuffle for Regina yesterday.
And then I returned it.
It turns out that they (all new iPods) require USB2 and I only have USB1 on the laptop. It’s odd to think my hardware is so outdated that I can’t even get a low-end iPod to work with it — something makes me think this was not an accident. I was already considering a 24″ iMac so I think this just confirms the suspicion that it’s time for an upgrade.
But now I have to wait until mid-June. The iMacs …