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Comment on Did Adobe finally kill Macromedia Flash? by Triynko

Triynko — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:01:23 +0000

Flash is light-years ahead of anything else out there. HTML5 is a standard on paper, but will never have a standard implementation, and it’s still seeing inconsistencies in canvas output related to pixel density scaling between safari mobile and safari desktop. Same old shit.

Flash, on the other hand, is write once, run anywhere. Using FlashDevelop as a code editor is incredible, allowing me to craft complex applications with the assistance of code hinting, refactoring features, reference finding, and compiler settings. Flash Authoring is like a giant bonus where I can take any class and make it visual by basing it on the DisplayObject type and embedding graphics into it by simply assigning the class to a library symbol in Flash Authoring. This allows me to instantiate programmable, hand-drawn objects in code with a simple “new” operator. This is unprecedented. Nothing like that exists in HTML. Flash supports pixel shaders (pixel bender), a robust display-hierarchy-based event system with bubbling, phases, and handler priorities for ultimate control, a single compressed file as a payload, the ability to compile to SWC library files that embed graphics and can be referenced in other projects, runtime sharing, flash remoting blows AJAX and JSON away with it’s ability to serialize type-safe AS3 classes and byte arrays from client to server (C# for example), and the list goes on. Flash is perfect for developing RIAs, and I hope it’s around for a long time.

Comment on Thoughts on Scrum by jet

jet — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:26:53 +0000

That’s quite unfortunate and is another key issue I have with Scrum. In my experience, Scrum allows non-technical people to have lots of control over technical projects–often with disastrous results.

Comment on Thoughts on Scrum by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:44:21 +0000

I’m a Development Manager and I’ve implemented SCRUM at our company and became certified (for knowledge reasons) as a SCRUM Master and Product Owner. One of things I sadly learned and confirmed through speaking with trainers is that since I am not a part of “the team” that my technical knowledge cannot be used as input to the team. This is unfortunate as I have over 17 years experience and put in place a lot of great things in this company such as TDD, Continuous Integration, etc. Many books on SCRUM have basically said that a management role, such as my own, are really unnecessary and only interfere with the team. This is kind of ridiculous since I put it in place to begin with. Even more so, I believe that unless you have stellar developers and perhaps even then, most people are not going to magically find time and have the experience to put many of the great things that I have put into practice.

Comment on Thoughts on Scrum by Specialization in Scrum: Is It Really So Bad? - Chris Steele on Agile

Specialization in Scrum: Is It Really So Bad? - Chris Steele on Agile — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:19:23 +0000

[...] burnout as the specialists pick up the slack for under-developing team members – that is sure to cause Scrum to fail. Finally, specialization can lead to a false sense of comfort, and a lack of desire to grow [...]

Comment on The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project by jet

jet — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:14:10 +0000

swfobject is about dynamically loading SWF files for playback using the Adobe Flash Player. Shumway works with swfobject but replaces the Adobe player with a web-native implementation.

Comment on The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project by Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:40:28 +0000

Did you saw http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ ? It appears to have the same objective

Comment on About by Abtisam

Abtisam — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:55:23 +0000

Dear jet,
How are you ?
My name is Abtisam. I am a student of Computer science. My aim is to become a great developer and work with really huge organizations like Mozilla, Microsoft or Google. But unfortunately i am not financially well established…not able to take part in different short courses like other people do. Kindly explain me what can i do for achieve my goals. And kindly give me your personal email id of Facebook. So i am able to take further help from you.

with best regards,
Abtisam

Comment on Graphite Smart Fonts in Firefox by JC Ahangama

JC Ahangama — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:39:03 +0000

LOL, try again JC:
Not ‘They have feature lookup tables’,
But They have feature lookup tables

Comment on Graphite Smart Fonts in Firefox by JC Ahangama

JC Ahangama — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:36:55 +0000

Oops!
This edit box mistook my angle-bracketed word for an html tag or something like that. Let me try again:
‘They have feature lookup tables’, should read,
They have >liga< feature lookup tables

Comment on Graphite Smart Fonts in Firefox by JC Ahangama

JC Ahangama — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:53:18 +0000

Correction:
I meant to say, ‘They have feature lookup tables’ when I said, “They have only lookup tables”.

Microsoft limits the ‘simple’ script Latin to feature. That is ample for the Dual-script solution. You transliterate the script into Latin taking care that it goes close to the English keyboard. Next, you use orthography to make the tables. You must be well versed in the script to make the tables. I know Singhala. Devanagari is not as complex as Singhala.

I forgot to say that romanized Singhala and Unicode Singhala can be round-trip converted in either direction. If the smartfonts are hosted by Google, then there is no need for web sites to supply the downloadable font like I do. As you see, transliteration obviates the need for the limping double-byte solution. (You can read Singhala as Latin script or native script, convenient for my daughter who was born in US and never learned Sinhala writing. The military and spy agencies may get other ideas too, such as voice to text).

Thanks.