Kevin Hoyt

What? PHP, Zend and Adobe goodness. Why? Because I’m obsessive compulsive and can’t stop myself from iterating over a problem every which way possible. Depending on how you count it, there’s somewhere between 13 and 54 different Flash, and/or Flex examples included in the attached archive - that doesn’t even count the different PHP examples (also included). I started these examples in support of the Adobe and Zend announcements related to Flex Builder and AMF. With some help from Wade Arnold along the way, it’s now a rather overwhelming collection.
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I had the honor and privilege to attend and present at jQuery Conference 2008 the weekend before The Ajax Experience in Boston. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, but found the event well attended. The sessions were broken into two tracks, beginner and advanced, filled with authorities on jQuery. I took my little audio recorder with me to the event, and walked away with three sessions to share.
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Here’s the problem. You have an image that measures 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels high. You want to use that as the border for content that measures 300 pixels wide by 300 pixels high. What do you do? Well, you chop that image up and then try to position the corners in the appropriate space without distorting them, and then fill out the rest with the parts that won’t be distorted by stretching. Or, you have your software do that for you. This is what’s called 9-slice in Flash Player, and is coming to a browser near you via the CSS 3 specification.
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