Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJul 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just wanted to let you know about a show I’ve fallen in love with. I’ve seen the commercials and thought it might be interesting to watch, but never got around to it. Once I saw a few episodes I was totally hooked.
A couple of weeks ago I watched two seasons of NBC’s Chuck within 48 hours. I has become my favorite TV series followed by The Office and Lost, and I can’t wait for season 3 to air next March. You can watch all 13 episodes from season 1 starting with the pilot on Warner Bros website. The second season has only about half of its 22 episodes online at nbc.com or...
Posted by Jacob Wright in ActionScript 3, Flash, FlexJul 17th, 2009 | 20 Comments
Ever need a thumbnail of an image in Flash? I do, and honestly speaking, the resampling that Flash does is less than ideal. Unless you only need to resize by half or bigger. But my thumbnails usually need to be smaller.
I searched for a solution and found on voq.com a promising library with some algorithms that worked quite nicely and a demo. The quality was nice, but the speed was slow. It also fiddled with the color a little bit. If I put the "easyScaling" parameter down from .5 to .25 I ended up with a nicer thumbnail but was slower to make and had more color disfiguration. You could tell what...
