jvns

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

bastibense

How to fix blurry fonts on some external monitors when using MacBook Pro Retina

It seems that graphcis and fonts look rather blurry on some monitors when hooked up to a MacBook Pro (Retina). This might fix the issue for you:

1. Download patch-edid.rb from http://embdev.net/attachment/168316/patch-edid.rb

2. Execute in Terminal (without the $):

   $ ruby patch-edid.rb

3. Copy produced folder (example: DisplayVendorID-22f0) to /System/Library/Displays/Overrides (authorize if needed, if the folder exists, backup it before)

danielsedlacek

package org.wikibudgets {  
      // Base64 class downlaoded from http://code.google.com/p/as3crypto/  
      import com.hurlant.util.Base64;  
   
      import flash.display.Sprite;  
      import flash.events.Event;  
      import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;  
      import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;  
      import flash.net.URLLoader;  
      import flash.net.URLRequest;