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Comment on Man, the pain by Alec Battles

Alec Battles — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:23:22 +0000

it’s not your loquaciousness that needs forgiving here.

Comment on Review: Hario Skerton Coffee Mill by Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:44:08 +0000

The Hario Skerton can definitely replace your work out routine for the day, depending on what you are grinding for.

I love using it for French press coffee – or any other mode that requires a more coarse bean, but whenever I have tried grinding it finer (i.e. drip or espresso) it takes so much time just to grind the beans.

Like you said, if you’re using a two-cup French press, the Skerton is by far the coolest device out there, but when opting for a finer grind setting it definitely requires a lot of patience.

Comment on How to embed SVG vector graphics with Actionscript by ReaperOscuro

ReaperOscuro — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:49:13 +0000

Evening,

My problem is tranferring inkscapes alpha channel: at least, thats what I think.
Ive followed all that is said here and my svg loads fine -but it looks crap. Upon closer inspection I realised: the semi-transparent extra colour layers id added were not opaque anymore, making it too vivid.
So, how do I make ac3 recognise that it also needs to include such? I appreciate this post is some years.old but you never know, someone hopefully will notice.

Thanks in advance for your time,

ReaperOscuro

Comment on How to embed SVG vector graphics with Actionscript by ReaperOscuro

ReaperOscuro — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:53:59 +0000

Evening,

Thank you very very much for the help: not sure why needed to save as plain SVG, but twas done. Followed the syntax yet was still failing, then noticed that when I embedded it created:
[Embed(source='../lib/background.svg', mimeType='application/octet-stream')]
when I removed the mimeType it then worked.

Thanks for your time!

Comment on Populate a form with a serialized data string using jQuery by andy

andy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:22:33 +0000

Looks good, but you could make it even better by setting it up as a chainable jQuery method that you could call against a form object:

jQuery.fn.loadSerializedData(data) {
…
}

Replace references to formId with $(this) and then just call the method on a form object with:

$(‘#myForm’).loadSerializedData($myDataString);

Comment on A Holiday Message from Nathan Demick: Why I’m not an Atheist by Keenan

Keenan — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:57:30 +0000

Great essay Nathan. I haven’t read Ricky’s argument but this is a sound, yet brief explanation of how science and God are not mutually exclusive.

Comment on Intro to load testing with JMeter by Intro to Load Testing with JMeter (part deux!) « nathandemick.com

Intro to Load Testing with JMeter (part deux!) « nathandemick.com — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:12:35 +0000

[...] you’ve been following along, you’ll know that JMeter is most commonly used to do automated testing; you can create a [...]

Comment on Intro to load testing with JMeter by andy

andy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:03:54 +0000

This is great. I’ve never had the need to do load testing up to this point, but I’m sure this guide will come in really handy sooner or later.

Comment on How not to conduct an interview by Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:46:47 +0000

Seems like the current state of the market. They get so many e-mails, applicants, and interviews they always feel like they are the one doing you a favor. Every interview/e-mail I’ve sent they take this sort of attitude and I have to put up with it since I’m unemployed. GL on the search.

Comment on Compiling Papervision3D projects using mxmlc by Bence

Bence — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:32:01 +0000

I downloaded the latest Flex SDK (4.1), put it to the path, and then compile with the given sources:

I tested with your the HelloWorld, and the examples on the Papervision download page (theese with swc), and everything was fine. But when I tried to compile the Papervision 3d plugin for Swift 3D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCPtA78TzM), but I cannot run the resulted swf. This gives me a compiled one, but I would like to modify the sources [at least modify the path of a file], what is correct. But if I compile the project without any modification, the swf result do not run. I do not even get an error message, and do not know how could I get one.

I get this result for every build, but it does not seem to affect anything.
ERmain.as: Warning: This compilation unit did not have a factoryClass specified in Frame meta
data to load the configured runtime shared libraries. To compile without runtime shared libraries either set the -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries option to true or remove the -runtime-shared-libraries option.

I tried to run with -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries, with the same result.
I tried with papervicion3d.swc, but with the same result (except the swf become 2 times bigger).

Any tips?