Author Archives: sarah

Shiny CSS Buttons, No Images Required

So the other day a friend of mine asked – how do I make these fancy buttons in CSS? I thought I should share the technique with the rest of you. It’s rather simple once you break it down into … Continue reading

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It’s been a busy year…

And unfortunately it’s been keeping me from being as active as I’ve hoped as far as blogging. I’ve never been the fastest or most prolific writer, far from it, writing for me has always been a drawn out process despite … Continue reading

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Flex Charting vs. gRaphael

I’ve recently been looking at some different options for charting, for those cases where you might not want to use a heavy flex application, and one of the first that came to mind was gRaphaĆ«l. It’s an impressive javascript charting … Continue reading

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HTML5 is not CSS3 is not Javascript.

There seems to be a lot of confusion out there about what HTML5 is. Your average web user seems to think that HTML5, by itself, creates all these fancy effects, similar to flash, and it’s just not true. Perhaps the … Continue reading

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Fonts and the Web: TypeKit

To follow up my post from earlier this week, I’ve started implementing type kit fonts on this site, and I’m really pleased with how simple it is to set up. (So simple, I think, even my mom could set this … Continue reading

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Fonts and the Web

So one of the things I like about Flex / Flash development is the fact that you can use pretty much any font you like, and it displays, fairly well across all browsers and operating systems. But even those of … Continue reading

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Stupid Hackers

Hackers got at the site, not sure if it’s from a media temple vulnerability (they’re claiming it’s not off course) or a wordpress vulnerability or the combination of the two, but it’s annoying to have to re do your blog … Continue reading

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FXG vs MXML Graphics Benchmarking

As a follow up to Elad Elrom’s post on FXG increasing swf file size and taxing the CPU I thought I’d benchmark FXG (compiled graphics files) vs runtime MXML graphics. There seems to be some confusion in the community as … Continue reading

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Download the Slides / Examples from Flash Coders NY Talk

Thanks everyone who attended my Flex 4 Skinning and Styling talk last night at Flash Coders New York! For those of you who weren’t there, we covered the basics of creating programmatic skins in Flex 4 (and why you would choose to use programmatic skins over skins created in catalyst or png skins. Continue reading

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Skinny DataGrid / List Scrollbars

I’ve always felt that the default (flex 3) scrollbars are sorta chunky, like they might need to go on a diet. Apparently the designers I work with feel the same way, as they’re always making them skinnier than the default … Continue reading

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