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A Place and a Process for Freelancers

jufa wrote 1 month ago: Ideally, an agency for which you work as a freelancer has hired you as the square peg to fit into a … more →

Tags: Design, Presenting, Process

Quotes in #define macros

mrm00 wrote 1 month ago: Man, this one wasted me a lot of time. Let’s say you have a #define constant: #define FILEVER … more →

Tags: C#, Define, macros, preprocessor directives

Video deinterlacing for Flash People

jufa wrote 2 months ago: The magic checkbox in, say Flash Video Encoder is there for a very good reason – much of the f … more →

Tags: video on the web

Good, standard 4:3 and 16:9 video sizes for flv compression

jufa wrote 2 months ago: One day, the world will be progressive scan and square pixels. For now, that is just the web. But it … more →

Tags: Flash, video on the web

Flash video bitrate calc for FLV (not H.264, H.263!)

jufa wrote 3 months ago: This keeps you to using best practices before commiting to an encode profile. Keep an eye on the Gri … more →

Tags: Flash

AS3 Mac Mouse Wheel class and Javascript

jufa wrote 3 months ago: pixelbreaker has a great solution: http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/flash/as30-mousewheel-on-mac-os-x/ … more →

Tags: Flash, Design, human-machine interface

Indispensable tools for one Flash Developer on Windows

jufa wrote 3 months ago: Big ass Laptop with 1920px screen and two hard drives – semi mobile is necessary – at … more →

Tags: Design, Flash

AS3 setting depth index of a display object on the timeline: Bug

jufa wrote 4 months ago: A project had a ‘flipbook’ which used nextFrame and prevFrame to move through content wh … more →

Tags: Flash

Loaded SWF not executing as expected? (AS3)

jufa wrote 4 months ago: A best practices way of loading a SWF withing another SWF is         public function Constructor() { … more →

Tags: Flash

Browser zooming and Flash

jufa wrote 4 months ago: AS2 Stage.scaleMode = “noScale”; AS3 stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; Can effe … more →

Tags: Flash

Flash CS3 IDE won't open anymore?

jufa wrote 4 months ago: While working on an flash CS3 project today I accidentally pasted a long phrase into the “font … more →

Tags: Flash, flash bug fix

C++0x: Interaction between rvalue references & concepts2 comments

pizer wrote 7 months ago: Last update: 2008-12-08 I noticed some unfortunate gotchas when using two of the upcoming C++ featur … more →

Tags: Programming, C#, C++0x, concepts, CPlusPlus, cplusplus0x, Gotcha, rvalue reference

Weird SQL Security Error in a browser based WPF App (I am an idiot)2 comments

wisoidblog wrote 7 months ago: I tried to write my first WPF app the other day in VS2008 c# .NET 3.5. I knew nothing about WPF exce … more →

Tags: ASP.NET

[Solution] Code Behind: Databinding breaks

warappa wrote 8 months ago: Today I experienced a problem with databinding and the code behind design. I connected the enabled p … more →

Tags: ChitChat, Code behind, DataBind

How to run a Dtrace script inside a Dtrace script?2 comments

blogjamun wrote 8 months ago: This blog is an attempt to summarise what is already present as bits and pieces, in various blogs an … more →

Tags: Dtrace, IT

this is global

warappa wrote 8 months ago: A Few days ago I was worried by a to my mind strange behaviour cause by anonymous event handlers: I … more →

Tags: Actionscript 3, anonymous function, Global, this

FIELDS OF LAME214 comments

Jeremy wrote 8 months ago: By Jeremy This attempted takedown of long-time target Tracee Hutchison is one of tim’s more pa … more →

Tags: Tim Blair, Tracee Hutchison

Texture vs. Surface pixel addressing in DirectX

evanl wrote 8 months ago: Let’s say you’re rendering a D3DImage, and you want to blit a texture to it. The logical … more →

Tags: directx pixel center texture surface addressing uv coor

Sampler Filters in ShaderEffect

evanl wrote 9 months ago: The ShaderEffect object allows you to register a dependency property bound to a texture sampler. It … more →

Tags: bug WPF ShaderEffect filtering


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