BKWLD Sacramento Pumpkin Contest
In case anyone needs em, here’s my Make PNGs actions for photoshop. I have them mapped to f1-f3.
Archive for October, 2007
the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California certified the NFB lawsuit against Target as a class action on behalf of blind Internet users throughout the U.S. and ruled that websites like Target.com are required, under California state law, to be accessible.
Totally missed this one earlier this month. Don’t under estimate the importance of accessibility! At least not any more.
Bitrate calculator
My doppleganger posted this bitrate calculator for making FLVs. We should refer to this in the future for telling people what to set their compression settings to, instead of my usual “uhhh 400kbs?”
Leopard Upgrade Breaks MySQL [READ: DON’T UPGRADE]
[UPDATE] I can’t get the below process to work, but found that a thread on Marc Linyanage forum where he appears to be in the process of creating his PHP package installer. Have patience! Solution is eminent. I’m experimenting with his builds.
[UPDATE] PHP isn’t compiled with GD library by default. Here are instructions on how to recompile it with the necessary libraries. Fuck.
[UPDATE] The most comprehensive solution to date is here.
I just put Leopard on my MacBook this morning and can’t get MySQL running. Leopard comes with Apache 2, so some directories have changed. To get PHP running, you’ll need to modify your config file thusly.
As far as MySQL goes, nothing I’ve found on the internet works. Still hunting … I’ll keep you posted here. In the mean time, DO NOT UPGRADE
Goodbye onReleaseOutside
Noticed today that there is no onReleaseOutside in AS3 and events don’t fire when your mouse isn’t on the displayObject. Senocular, as usual, has the answer.
Flash 9 components, let me skin you!
I was trying to save time and increase functionality by making use of the Flash 9 components. I’m really not a component person, never used them in old version of flash. But I’d gone to a presentation at the local user group where I “learned” that the new components were hella easy to use and, most importantly, skin. Well using them, yes, that’s easy and can really speed up a prototype. Tonight I tried to skin the slider component. Every bit I replaced was scaled wrong, as if it were being forced to fit within the size of the original slider elements. So if the grabber thing was 10×10, i couldn’t put a new grabber that was 50×50 in it’s place or it would scale down. Apparently the only scale you can change is the length of the slider. Bummer.
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
The people who buy enterprise software aren
Can’t Tell Will Oldham Nothing
The new Kanye West album is getting a lot of air play at the Sacto BKWLD studio. I think it’s appropriate everyone revisit this alternate version of the Can’t Tell Me Nothing video.
The beauty of this video is that the majority of Kanye West aficionados may not be aware that the video’s supporting actor (yes, the creepy bald guy with the mustache) is one of the most respected song writers of the last fifteen years. To those of us who have danced our first dances as man and wife, birthed our children into the world, and paid last respects to friends leaving it to his music, this video is quite surreal.
Here’s some more Will Oldham for your would-be rainy day enjoyment:
