David Flatley

I can’t figure this one out. For some reason, only over this past year, my mail has been showing up super late and completely mangled. The funny part is it’s always the important pay checks, never the spam, never the unwanted “new line of credit” envelopes, and never the vouchers for a sale on framed Yellow Java Stick Insects to go with my framed Green Java Stick Insects.

No, they never seem to demolish the letters offering a buy one get one free Kitty Wig. Not poking fun, by the way, if you purchase a Kitty Wig, 20% of their profits are donated to the ASPCA quarterly. But it’s always the paychecks…ONLY the paychecks. Until today. Today they went to far.

I received a completely dilapidated envelope containing a Christmas card from my Aunt. How it survived the journey, or what heroic deeds it may have committed along it’s path I’ll not find out. The point is, against all odds, it arrived and somewhat legible. Thanks post office. Through rain, sleet or snow, we will drag your mail all the way to your door step.

(continue reading…)

Now that I have a little more time once again to continue working on AirSpace I want to tighten up a few things with the app. Since this blog is pretty new and I did promise to write some useful tidbits, it probably wouldn’t hurt to reiterate exactly what AirSpace is. I had a few friends, family members and clients asking if I could help them style their MySpace profiles…{shudder}. No…please no!

Wasn’t exactly looking forward to that as I never really bothered with MySpace before, but when I had the idea to write an Adobe AIR application with Flex that’ll let them do the styling themselves I knew I was on to something. So far, there’s been heaps upon piles of suggestions to improve on AirSpace, many of which are current in the latest version 1.0.0.5. Some cool ideas were pre-made styles, which is going to take a while to create, but there’s a layout browser built into the app now. You can edit styles, save them to your machine and reopen them for a later date, swap them out on a whim and so on. Currently, there’s also a “practice template”. When you start up AirSpace, you’ll see a generic MySpace page to the right. You can check out your style edits as you go and apply them to your actual MySpace page when you’re ready. Here’s more info on my other blog.

For example, I think the Tables styles are still a bit buggy, this is probably due to overwritting some bit of CSS in the final output. Maybe I can jump back on that today. In the meantime, a few developers were asking for details on how I got certain things working so I figured I’d share a bit of code (useful once again).

(continue reading…)