I came across an article on Webreference yesterday about a Canvas-based JavaScript sample for drawing lines. It's a huge script and the sample runs like a dog. So this morning I thought I'd churn out a dozen lines of code to do this in Flash but Richard Leggett beat me to it. Read his blog [...]

I was looking for the source for the various generators in Ruby on Rails in my Locomotive install and it took me a while to find them. For the record, I found it in: Locomotive2 → Bundles → rails112.locobundle → i386 → lib → ruby → gems → 1.8 → gems → rails-1.1.2 → lib → [...]

So, after the LiquidWeb debacle, I start looking for alternative hosting provider for OSFlash and it dawns on me that this is the perfect chance to start using Amazon's EC2. So I try to log out of my regular account with Amazon to sign in with my developer account. Umm... well... I can't seem to [...]

Update: OSFlash is up and running again but I'm looking for a new hosting provider as I don't trust LiquidWeb following how they handled this incident. Update: Adam emailed me back following their investigation into the matter. Here's what they found: This seems to be an isolated incident. That being said, I don't think an upgrade at [...]

This has been a good week for Flash accessibility. Bob Corporaal has a system that he is working on that gives Flash developers more control over how to react to browser text size preference changes. At the same time, I noticed that the Flash Player doesn't work correctly with the browser keyboard shortcuts for the [...]