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I now have some serious bragging rights and geek cred, I gave  my very first interview, and the blog I gave it to has Flex in its name. http://www.flex888.com/1108/pearltrees-a-novel-approach-to-web.html Thanks to Sravan at Flex888! Ariel

While working on IFrame integration for pearltrees I came across a pretty unfathomable bug that I haven’t seen documented elsewhere, so I thought I’d post about it here. Zooming in Firefox messes up IFrame positioning. Furthermore, Firefox remembers zooming for each individual page, so if perchance you zoomed in the application by accident, things will […]

The first RFC(Request For Comment) was written 40 years ago today, and the NYTimes has a piece on it here. I like RFCs, not particularly that they make pleasant reading, but that they are a great design methodology. It’s about saying” hey kids, I think there’s a technical need here, and here’s how we can […]

Flex has been open source for a while now, so you might wonder why there doesn’t seem to be more external, community-driven extensions to the library. It seems that the only source contributors are Adobe employees. I’ll pass on the theories on why Adobe might want to keep it this way. The purpose of this […]