A though one to figure out: Setting the Alpha (transparancy) value for a textfield:
import flash.display.BlendMode;
[...]
textfield.text = 'Some text';
textfield.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER;
textfield.alpha = 0.5;
You can also add textFormatting if you like…
Google spreadsheets has 2 build-in random-number functions. Rand() and Randbetween().
Most of the time, I use randbetween(), because it offers a quick and easy way to insert some random numbers. However, this function only insert rounded numbers.
If you want to insert random numbers with decimals, you can use Rand(). I will explain both functions here.
I’ve had some trouble with loading an external SWF file and then calling the functions of that SWF file. It works like so:
Main swf code:
Sub swf code:
Let’s say we have 2 tables that we want to combine:
In both tables, we have Personal nr. and we want to add the data from the second table to the data from the first table.
For this we will use VLOOKUP.
Just a quick tip for those that use the award winning Joomla CMS:
If one of your clients deletes the English language pack by mistake (my mistake for giving him admin-rights), simply upload the en-EN from the original zip file and you’re done!
Finding this post on Google might save you half an hour of searching the Joomla forums.
A little explanation on the SUMIF function in google spreadsheets. Understanding this function will help you understand many other spreadsheet functions.
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In these posts, I’ll show you how to build a really basic planning tool in Google Docs.
This tutorial is meant to get you started with using more advanced features of Google spreadsheets. Though it will not touch any of the real complicated stuff.
Let’s get started. Read more
… there’s a lot of crap on the internet 
Once more I realize how exciting the whole digital/internet/virtual world is… to me, at least.
Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo!. Amazing, I remember Yahoo being the best search engine around, 5 or 6 years ago. An now, one of the most evil cooperation is trying to take it over. Oh no!
This would mean bad news for Flash because Yahoo is a big Flash-loving company, and Microsoft isn’t… (they even have a flash competitor called ‘silverlight’)
Toshiba giving up on HD-DVD. This means that Blu-ray is the official new generation DVD format and in not-too-long we’ll all be watching our high-def movies on Sony Blu-ray discs.
Oddly enough, Toshiba’s stock seems to be going up, instead of down.
Actionscript 4.0 announced. And I have just started getting into Actionscript 3.0.
Tomorrow, my own little company will become an official ‘Holding’, which is a dutch construction of a company owning shares of another company.
All this stuff going on, and we’re all in the middle of it.
Amazing, really.
Lol @ Dutch windows users.
The program used for submitting the ‘income tax return’ isn’t working. In Holland, most people submit their ‘income tax information’ in January, I guess the Windows users just have to wait for a bit, because only the Linux and Apple version are working.
Check the worst google-translation ever for proof (while it’s still there):