Month: December 2006
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The holidays are coming …
Aand I will (hopefully) have more time to post some more on the blog. I’ve been working with some interesting stuff lately, mostly regarding Flex, Ajax or a combination of the two. So, as I will get some more free time to put my thoughts in order, I’ll post things here. Until then, Merry Christmas.
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Flash on linux?
Some time ago Adobe posted on their labs a Beta version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. A much expected move, as most other will confirm. And now, when doing a new install of Ubuntu Edgy, and following the standard steps to install the flash player i discovered that the beta 9 player was installed…
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The file(s) with no death
Aas I was working with some ANT scripts today (well, yesterday by the time I finish the post) I stumbled upon a strange situation (or so I thought at first): my ANT task failed when trying to delete some JAR files. I checked the path to the file – it was correct. I checked if…
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Link preview without the hastle
Snap launched one of these days a new service called Snap Preview Anywhere that allows bloggers and site owners display a preview of a link’s target as a tool tip. This seems to aim at adding AJAX style value to a site but without all the hard work. The service is embeded into your page…
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Setting up the envirnoment to develop enterprise Flex apps
Flex is an Adobe product which enables developers use an enterprise approach to add a rich interface to the web-based applications. It uses both an XML based syntax (the MXML) in order to describe the interfaces and various applications states and ActionScript to tie all of the actions together. You can find out a lot…