stephen koch

We waltzed down to the City Clerks Office this morning and obtained out marriage license without a hitch.

I have to say, though, that I was pretty nervous only because of that last marriage I was in. You see, I haven’t obtained a decree of divorce yet. I have, however, been in touch with Sophie and I have gotten the documentation necessary but you see, it isn’t an official document. What I feared was that I would have to go to the French Consulate and get the Livret de Famille. I don’t think that it would be a difficult task, I just didn’t want to have to go through those hoops. I’m a lazy one, you know, when it comes time to bureaucracy.

Nikki filled out an online form yesterday and when we went today it was just like going to DMV … only nicer. They’ve completely redone the office and I have to say I was impressed with the service (many smiles) from the first woman we met but the 2nd wasn’t as friendly. What she was, however, was efficient.

She asked me for the date of my divorse which I completely knew because I did my homework and that was that. She didn’t ask for any documents and she was staring at the monitor so I knew she was merely looking for verification.

This brought back memories of getting married downtown and was a little strange. Thankfully though it was a different office and location.

Developing on facebook, yeah.

It’s not all that difficult, it merely takes time to get around the structuring and how it all fits together. Things I learned today: it’s possible to authorize your app before the app loads however if your app doesn’t require information from facebook (users, user icons, names, friends list, etc) then you can create a button in your app and then have the user click the button to authorize the app. This button usually would open in a new window thus taking the user away from the app (_blank) however Josh figured a way to have this happen from within the app page itself.

Now if we can get it to work with iframes (and not just FBML) we’d be a little more complete with Jamie’s FacebookAuthManager class.

Trying out a new theme. Can’t get images to display properly but then, all of these are pulling from other sources. Might need to stop doing that actually.

Tabs? What cab I put in there? Well, how about some gaming info. Recently acquired the XBOX and CoD:MW2 is all the rage. I’ve not yet tried any online gaming nor have I tried Assassain’s Creed 2. I’m not 25 anymore.

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I have an empty movieclip on the stage at 25, 23.
I have another clip that contains 3 clips at 0, 0.
These 3 nested clips all have an empty 1st frame. Their width and height properties are all 1, 1.
(We all know that an empty clip defaults to 1px x 1px but should that be 0px x 0px? It’s EMPTY.)
If I select either of these clips on the stage, I get the proper width and height as reported by Flash.

So what Flash thinks is that the combined width of these clips is 6,710,861 pixels and the combined height of these clips is 6,710,863 pixels?

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See and download the full gallery on posterous

/sjk/mobile

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I found an interesting post with some code that loops through all the fonts on the iPhone and presents them in a nice list. Handy to visualize what’s available.

OS 3.0.1

AppleGothic,

“HiraKakuProN-W6″,

“HiraKakuProN-W3″,

ArialUnicodeMS,

“STHeitiK-Medium”,

“STHeitiK-Light”,

DBLCDTempBlack,

“Helvetica-Oblique”,

“Helvetica-BoldOblique”,

Helvetica,

“Helvetica-Bold”,

“MarkerFelt-Thin”,

TimesNewRomanPSMT,

“TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT”,

“TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT”,

“TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT”,

“Verdana-Bold”,

“Verdana-BoldItalic”,

Verdana,

“Verdana-Italic”,

“Georgia-Bold”,

Georgia,

“Georgia-BoldItalic”,

“Georgia-Italic”,

ArialRoundedMTBold,

“TrebuchetMS-Italic”,

TrebuchetMS,

“Trebuchet-BoldItalic”,

“TrebuchetMS-Bold”,

“STHeitiTC-Light”,

“STHeitiTC-Medium”,

“GeezaPro-Bold”,

GeezaPro,

Courier,

“Courier-BoldOblique”,

“Courier-Oblique”,

“Courier-Bold”,

ArialMT,

“Arial-BoldMT”,

“Arial-BoldItalicMT”,

“Arial-ItalicMT”,

“STHeitiJ-Medium”,

“STHeitiJ-Light”,

ArialHebrew,

“ArialHebrew-Bold”,

“CourierNewPS-BoldMT”,

“CourierNewPS-ItalicMT”,

“CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT”,

CourierNewPSMT,

Zapfino,

AmericanTypewriter,

“AmericanTypewriter-Bold”,

“STHeitiSC-Medium”,

“STHeitiSC-Light”,

HelveticaNeue,

“HelveticaNeue-Bold”,

“Thonburi-Bold”,

Thonburi

I attempted to put my current project on the iPhone today and was greeted with the following.

A little searching (after alreadydownloading the latest SDK, can’t hurt) I found that in order to continue developing with iPhone SDK 3.0 you have to run a little command found in the
advisory. Oh yeah, I saw that advisory but ignored it.

For the lazy, the command is:
ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0\ \(7A341\) /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0.1