Two years ago, I bought a house. Last week, DeKalb County confirmed that this was a financial disaster. For the last 10 years, pundits, personalities and the President proclaimed homeownership as the balm to soothe a range of ills, including community stability and the racial wealth gap. For the last 10 years, I listened intently [...] [Posted: 26 May 2009]
A round up of stuff you have probably already read. jQuery vs MooTools Every day on twitter I see numerous posts that boil down to “MooTools or jQuery?” This article aims to help you make that choice. Aaron Newton of Clientcide, and a MooTools developer, takes a look at the pros and cons of both [...] [Posted: 21 May 2009]
Using ExternalInterface and Firebug Lately, the day job has had me busting booty on a Flash/ActionScript project that makes considerable use of the ExternalInterface class. ExternalInterface allows Flash to communicate with its HTML container using JavaScript. It’s a groovy feature, but one that changes the development process a bit. Unlike straight-up Flash development, ExternalInterface requires [...] [Posted: 1 May 2009]