Rouven, a co-worker of mine, found a very neat CSS trick on how to create proportional container. Let’s say you want to embed a video in your fluid layout (content adjusts to page width). What you’d want is something … Read more

CSSEdit is a great app I can’t live (or at least work) without. I’ve recently discovered the LESS language, which basically extends CSS with some very very useful functionality – mainly variables and something like functions (called mixins). (By the … Read more

My very first jQuery plugin: warps the text along a circle. It’s simple and certainly far from perfect – I needed it, so may be you’ll need it too :-)

Usage:

$(elem).roundtext( {radius

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Most of my Flash apps or websites use XML files, either for communication or initial data. They can get quite large, reaching about 100 kb or more is not seldom. You might say: so what?! 100 kb is like nothing … Read more

From time to time I spend a few weeks abroad. From time to time I’d like to watch swiss tv while I’m there. There are services like Zattoo or Wilmaa out there, that allow you to watch tv via internet, … Read more

betabits

I went down a few algorithmic roads recently, digging into path finding and – for some obscure reasons – bit manipulations. Or byte. Whatever.

Along this way some utility methods (or functions) were born, and I thought: May be some … Read more

031609_garbage_canAs we all know Flash’s garbage collector is a hell of a beast. It tries to free memory from “unused” objects (aka objects not somehow cross-referenced by the root). So from time to time our garbage collector checks for those Read more