Monthly Archives: July 2011

Natural Scrolling Isn’t

Posted on July 23, 2011 by aroth

Mac users and other developers such as myself who have no choice but to use a Mac for certain projects will already know what I’m talking about. For everyone else, however, the newest version of OS X includes a most … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Naming Your Function ‘$’ is not Clever

Posted on July 16, 2011 by aroth

The atrocity that is the dollar function dates back at least 2005 and the introduction of the Prototype Framework. Back in those days, ‘$()‘ was simply a shorthand way of saying ‘document.getElementById()‘ without having to type all 24 characters. And … Continue reading →

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Resurrecting sun.misc.Unsafe

Posted on July 10, 2011 by aroth

Here’s one that only the hardcore Java hackers will enjoy. Perhaps you are already familiar with sun.misc.Unsafe. This heavily protected internal class provides access to a number of low-level memory operations and system functions that are generally hidden away from … Continue reading →

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[Android] Installing Adobe AIR on the Android Emulator

Posted on July 3, 2011 by aroth

I’ve got no idea why this process is so poorly documented, nor why many of the existing resources describing how to install the AIR runtime on the Android emulator are so needlessly circuitous, pointing you to links on the official … Continue reading →

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