When I originally tossed the Stockmoose up a couple of months ago, it was mostly a prototype–one that had taken a single evening to produce, and one that was based on a single request to my artist girlfriend: “Can you draw me a moose with a tie?” Well, now it’s finally back with a […]
Another day, another kooky web idea. This time, it’s the Stock Moose. We’ve had a lot of debate at work on how to gather data, how to present that data, and how to make that collection/presentation process engaging enough that someone might actually enjoy doing it just for the sake of doing it […]
Even though there’s only two of us here at work (well, actually our first of two interns started yesterday… but they only work 20 hours a week), our acting CEO has asked if we want him to set up a 401k. I’d already gotten the ball rolling on a Roth IRA over at Zecco (paperwork […]
A little while ago at work, we switched veins from “Totally Super Secret” to “Shhh, don’t tell too many people, but we’ll give out a few accounts.” The bosses didn’t want any press releases or newspaper articles just yet, but my co-worker and I spent a couple of days seeing if there were any slightly-stealthy […]
I work a lot with MXML, but even I still think there’s a little bit of chicanery going on when it comes to getting it to play nice with the other kids. Due to all the various problems that normal TextFields have with image support (via htmlText), at work I decided to replace the […]
I’m working on adding Header controls to my version of the Flex Rich Text Editor, and I noticed that the ToggleButtonBar doesn’t… exactly… work. I dug into the source and saw why. When using the “ToggleOnClick” property, the TBB does some funny stuff that it’s parent, the regular ButtonBar, doesn’t really care about. […]
On Monday, I headed up to San Fran for one of Adobe’s little community events: an “Adobe Rich Internet Application Developer’s Camp.” I have to say, I really liked their corporate digs. Besides the 2-man behemoth of a company I’m working at now, I’ve worked at Electronic Arts and been to several events […]
Unfortunately, the Flex RTE has been back-burnered for a bit while I work on more pressing things at work. I’m currently using YUI’s tabs for something, but don’t really like them… So I’ve been tinkering around with an alternate tab-like interface. The concept is somewhere in between tabs and an accordion structure. […]
Before getting into the meat of my post, I suppose it’s all right to now mention that I’m working at a site called Piqqem. As of last week we’re no longer officially in “stealth,” but we’re not quite ready to go into full-on publicity-seeking mode yet, either. The RTE code I’ve been working […]
In this post earlier this week, I set out the project goal of making the Flex Rich Text Editor control a little more user-friendly. Here’s the first bit. I’ve removed the old add link textField completely and replaced it with two new buttons: “Add Link” and “Remove Link.” The popup for the […]
