A Few Post-Panel Thoughts on Web Fonts

July 26, 2008

There was a lively panel discussion at TypeCon 2008 on the issue of embedded fonts on the web [an overview can be found here]. A pretty controversial subject because there are 2 problems that need to be solved — the web designer’s desire to use typography, and the type designer’s desire to be paid for their work. […]

Website Update

July 25, 2008

The main page has been updated — click around, break things, and please send me any errors you find.
There has been a “temporary” page up for the past week in a mad rush to have something done by TypeCon2008. It was functional and highlighted some of the skills I’m trying to showcase. But now that I’ve had another […]

Goodbye Randy

July 25, 2008

Randy Pausch died today. He’s known more widely as the professor who gave the “Last Lecture”, but I highly recommend his “Time Management” talk — it really has changed the way I look at my own work and practical advice for how to get things done.
Though more importantly to me has been his work at Carnegie-Mellon with human-computer […]

Troubleshooting Actionscript in a Flex Component

July 9, 2008

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Using an Actionscript class within a Flex component can be a little tricky. The first error I ran into was:

Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method
of a null object reference.

This was a result of using […]