In case you think embedding fonts in web pages is something new, I made the first font embedding experiments in browsers in 1998. It was working – cross-browser too: Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4. See, EOT from Microsoft is quite old (introduced in 1996) and Netscape had their own format, called .pfr, based on the TrueDoc technology developed by Bitstream. So how comes that more than a decade later we still don’t have a fully working way of using custom fonts on the web?
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A simple solution to a complicated error for anyone to try out before searching any further : Having to write a WCF service to handle complex LINQ entities with various foreign key references I came across the following exception when trying to consume the respective service :
Object graph for type “EntityType” contains [...]
A truly humbling moment: Google has selected my flashCHESS III flash chess game to be included with their Chrome OS.
Here are some screenshots – apparently the guys at TechRadar like the game as well considering the number of screenshots of the chess app
As many other times, I came across this issue having to begin at the wrong end, i.e. having the result and in need of the problem. The samples and recommended procedures offer – as in most cases – only the simplest examples. The workaround is often tedious and in absence of feedback uncertain.
This note refers to Visual Studio snippets and shows how you can easily add your own. Very useful when having to create many classes with lots of properties such snippets save a lot of time.
They are usually to be found in the Visual Studio folder under My Documents (i.e. for VS 2008 : C:\Documents and [...]
VirtueMart supports Manufacturer details but by default it just shows the manufacturer’s name in brackets, with a javascript pop-up window, that looks pretty ugly. Fortunately we can add the logo by using the description field of the Manufacturers details and by hacking one file.
Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.