Archive for February, 2007

February 26th, 2007

USPTO needs an overhaul

Over the last few years, there has been a horrible, ever-increasing trend, of companies patenting, or buying companies that hold patents that are vague and generic and then going after the people with money who have already implemented technologies.

February 11th, 2007

Anyone using WP and iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin?

The iG:Syntax hiliter plugin for WordPress wants to swap out my > (greater than), < (less than) symbols for > and <. I haven’t posted code in awhile, so I’m not sure if this is something that popped up after I upgraded to WP 2.1 (from 1.5) or from the recent updating of the […]

February 11th, 2007

Scale image proportionally

A buddy of mine had asked me how to make Flash scale an image to fit the entire background, but keeping the image aspect ratio. I knew it wouldn’t be hard to figure out, but I also hadn’t really done it before. I’m posting it here for his benefit and just in case I […]