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Set WP-Syntax tab width

Posted on 01/02/2011 by derRaab

Since I’m using the WP-Syntax plug-in on my blog I tried to optimize font size and the tab width. Like a lot of developers I heavily use tabs in my source code. These tabs are really wide within the browser … Continue reading →

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Amazing Math Tutorial Video Site

Posted on 02/10/2010 by derRaab

I really need to quote this bit-101 blog post. It’s the first time I heard about that great website: http://www.khanacademy.org/ I don’t have much more to say about this. Do you need to learn or brush up on any subject … Continue reading →

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FFK10 – Flashforum conference notes

Posted on 20/04/2010 by derRaab

Every year I spend two days sitting in the audience of the Flashforum conference (FFK) listening to great speakers and getting impressed by their experiments and thoughts. It’s also a good way to renew some of the basic knowledge in … Continue reading →

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Embed fonts with Adobe Flash IDE

Posted on 10/04/2010 by derRaab

Almost every Flash project needs some embedded fonts and it is a good practice to compile the fonts into a separate SWF file. So here is a simple way to create a file that contains only embedded fonts. The SWF … Continue reading →

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URLRequest with HTTP authentication

Posted on 25/02/2010 by derRaab

I found a good explanation how to support HTTP authentication with URLRequests here. That’s the most interesting part: Best I can tell, for some reason, this only works where request method is POST; the headers don’t get set with GET … Continue reading →

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Create Custom Flex Components with Flash

Posted on 09/04/2009 by derRaab

I found a Adobe TV Video which contains basic knowledge how to create custom Flex components with Flash CS3:

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How to add MouseWheel support on Mac OS Flash Player

Posted on 29/10/2007 by derRaab

Gabriel Bucknail created almost a year ago a SWFObject add-on to bring MouseWheel support to the Mac OS X Flash Player. Seems to be still up to date: AS2-Solution or AS3-Solution

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How to embed everything in a Word.doc

Posted on 29/10/2007 by derRaab

This summer I was getting crazy because I couldn’t find out how to embed all graphics within a Word document. The idea behind this simply was to bring loads of XML data into Word documents. So I decided to automatically … Continue reading →

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