20111111 So… what do we do now with the old Flash content?

News about the imminent Flash demise are popping out everywhere you look at. The recent cancellation of Flash mobile is just a warning of what is to come. And the question that immediately came to my mind was: what with all the legacy content? There’s a huge amount of stuff which has been programmed for [...]

20100623 ruby in the pub #4 :after

Julian Burgess (who I had virtually met via Twitter) suggested me I should attend the next ruby in the pub. It sounded decidedly odd: mixing journalists with an interest for code with ruby developers; even more strange considering I’m not a ruby expert as much as I try, so I thought it could be interesting [...]

20100622 Should PDFs be next?

Everyone has experienced this: you’re happily browsing a site, click on a link to get more information about something and then… TADA! You’re downloading a PDF! Or, depending on your browser’s settings, you could either have the PDF open in the very same window/tab, or get a new window/tab open with the PDF in them, [...]

20081021 Embedding fonts in ActionScript 3, using Flex SDK

Say you have a class and you want to use an embedded, non-system font in the class. That way you can rotate, scale, change alpha and apply filters to the text. And this is how it would look like, roughly: public class MyClass extends Sprite {         [Embed(source="./../assets/MyFontLightItalic.TTF", fontFamily="MyFontFamily", fontWeight= "light", fontStyle [...]

20080717 How to crash Flash Player in few lines

I tried this with the stand-alone Flash Player, versions 9.0.45 and 9.0.124. I was hoping to crash the browser too when executing the malicious code inside a browser but that didn’t work :-/ Anyway this is how you would proceed if you wanted to crash your Flash Player. Or this is what you shouldn’t do [...]