Monthly Archives: March 2009

Wrong Choices

*schnief* python chose the “wrong” VCS. Tell me why Guido – I don’t want to learn using another VCS.

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Stupid is who does stupid …

Germany is getting damn stupid internetfiltering. Here’s the one line to circumvent it for unixoid operating systems.

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Tweening made comfortable

… starting to code webapps in ActionScript3 I discovered (this widely known) tweening class. It’s truly comfortable and definitely the way to go when you have to tween.

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… removeChild() …

… using this command on a regular base makes me feel cruel.

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Almost lost my sanity over Flex+Bitmap Fonts

An (unbelievable ugly, but nevertheless life saving solution) is to be found here. ADOBE, this SUCKS! How the hell am I supposed to use bitmap fonts (and please don’t tell me I should not). If anyone knows a sane way … Continue reading

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Generating TiffG3 aka TIFF/F

I tried generating a tiffg3 to push it through capifax and at first nothing worked. This was my first solution (using ImageMagick, which uses GhostScript): convert -density 204×98 -resize 1728×1186 \ -compress fax -monochrome -negate <in.pdf> <out.tiff> Problem: the output … Continue reading

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