Don’t Let Your Timers Creep!
It’s been a while since I’ve done a pure programming post, so here we go. A co-worker just dropped by to ask whether I would expect timers in ActionScript 3.0 to be accurate. I said, “why yes, of course!” But there’s a wrinkle: if you set a Timer to go off indefinitely (i.e., with a repeatCount of 0), it appears that the timer doesn’t start the next interval until the listener function returns.
New version of Buzzword: spelling dictionaries, invitations, ODF export
We just shipped a new release of Buzzword today with some great new stuff in it. We totally rewrote our spell checking engine and added support for 19 Western language dictionaries. You can now set the spell-check dictionary on a per-document basis, plus you can set the document’s language to “none” for when you just don’t want it spell-checked at all. We also made some major improvements to our email invitation system. Previously, when you
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