Randomize Everything

As we all know, Flash has these crazy bugs nobody ever understands. One of those is the fact that the last character of a dynamic textfield (which has been set to “AutoSize”) gets cut off when you’re using an embedded font. Up till now I still don’t understand what kind of situation leads to this exceptional behavior. The only thing I can say is that Flash Player fails to determine the correct text length which screws up the textfield width to be shorter than it has to be.

Example:

Blurred/Cut Off Characters

I’ve been with my new love for three weeks now and it feels like it’s going to be a healthy marriage for a long time. We both respect each other’s opinion about web related stuff and have good make up sex when things go off the right track.

Ok, a bit more serious now: I felt the need to change jobs because I needed to do more creative work and concentrate on the things that really matter to me: good atmosphere, cool people and challenging projects in a loose and respected environment. Since my previous employer didn’t really offer high levels of these essential potions, I had to find a company that actually did.

Without looking too far, I accidentally stumbled upon a company called Amphion, located on a ten minutes walk from my new apartment in Antwerp. It’s one of those companies that sniffs around here and there, keeping an eye out for creative and brain twisted people and allowing them to do what they’re good at: being crazy in any possible way! Since this is a motive I can but only encourage, Amphion seemed to be the right pick for me.

So I began working at their office in december 2009 as a lead developer on the new Coca Cola (Belgium) campaign website for the first quarter of 2010. I certainly hope that these kind of projects keep coming their (and my) way, not only to keep me busy for some time but also to fill this blog with cool shizzle and programming problems I encounter and have to find a solution for.
Summarized: I.learn() == you.learn().

Say no more? Ok, you’re right: www.amphion.be should convince (opens in a new browser window/tab).