Archive for February, 2008

Hot Key System for Flex (pre-release)

February 16th, 2008 – 8:37 pm

After having a need for creating hot key shortcuts on multiple different occasions, I decided to break down and create a highly-reusable system that integrates seamlessly into any Flex app. I spent some time and planned out several different use-cases that the system will need to account for. A few considerations were as follows:

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Using Gmail’s spam filter for your POP3 account

February 6th, 2008 – 11:33 am
Tagged as: Productivity

Here’s a technique I learned a few months back that I’ve been meaning to blog about. I’ve always been displeased by my client’s spam detection, as it was always either of two extremes: ignoring spam or marking legitimate mail as spam. From my experience, Gmail has always provided the most reliable spam filtering, and it […]

The “NEW” way to resize images

February 4th, 2008 – 2:04 am
Tagged as: Flash, Flex 2, Media

A friend of mine just introduced me to an interesting approach to image resizing called seam carving. It’s a solution to the challenge of preserving both the size and composition of an image, and well….perhaps this video will explain it better than I could.
[flash http://www.youtube.com/v/6NcIJXTlugc&rel=1 w=425 h=355]
It also turns out that someone built an RIA […]