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Link: jQSlickWrap

by James on 4th December, 2009 in JavaScript

We’ve known for quite a while that jQuery is brilliantly clever, but holy cow, the code behind this is pretty damn clever.

What jQSlickWrap does is automagically work out the shape of the image by extracting the background colour, and then modifies the HTML to wrap the text perfectly around the image. Obviously something so awesome won’t work on some browsers, but it’s designed to cleverly degrade to whatever your browser can manage, which is pretty fantastic.

Read more about this over at the jQSlickWrap site: http://jwf.us/projects/jQSlickWrap/

Automating tasks in Flex Builder, with the help of a little something called ‘ANT’.

by James on 4th December, 2009 in Flex

One of the great things about Flex Builder is that it’s developed on top of the already existing Eclipse IDE, and is itself just one of many uses the Eclipse project is put to. Which means that many of the things you may want to do in your projects have already been explored by others. One such thing is automated tasks.

ANT Tasks in Flex

Turns out there’s something called ANT, which “[... does a really good job at building things]“. As Eclipse is the basis for Flex Builder, a lot of the plugins for Eclipse – and all the variants of it – work just fine in Flex Builder. There’s a plugin for Eclipse which adds ANT support for example, and then further plugins which add even more task types to ANT, such as FTP support.
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Link: Name your loops

by James on 4th December, 2009 in ActionScript

You can name your loops! Okay, so it’s not very exciting, but naming your loops will make things so much easier to organise and understand – I expect. Check out the link to read all about it;

http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2009/12/labels_in_actionscript_3.html