This is an archive of really old posts.
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Wikipedia out of ca$h?
Acording to a declaration made by Florence Devouard, Wikipedia may be in the slumps – “At this point, Wikipedia has the financial ressources to run its servers for about 3 to 4 months.”. This may very well be just arather extraordinary example of begging for money, or a way to put itself on the shelf,…
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FABridge & memory …
One of the biggest changes in the latest FABridge release is the addition of memory management mechanisms. If until now everything that was passed from ActionScript to JavaScript via the bridge stayed in memory until the page was reloaded, this is true no more. now various objects behave differently with their allocated memory, depending on…
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A new version of FABridge is out
… quite some time now actually (from last Tuesday). In case you don’t know already, the Flex-AJAX Bridge (or the much shorter name FABridge) is a library that allows developers integrate Flex applications with JavaScript code. It is a way to access and use Flex components directly from JavaScript code, without duplicating functionality. It allows…
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Blogging essentials?
There aren’t too many! I’ve come upon an interesting article today that explains what are the “must have” tools if you’re a blogger. You can read the entire article here, but I think they are kind’of missing the point. All one needs to write an interesting blog is content. Sure, having it look decent is…
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Beautify your PC
For all of you that got bored of the default background images or the plain color, check out this site (via Micro Persuasion). It has some nifty pictures you can use – some lower quality images which you can download directly, and higher quality images that are available for registered users. Give’em a spin.
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Quest for media center
I’ve decided on the first thing to change in my house this year – I want to hook up my TV to a media center PC. No, not one built specifically, but one I’ll put together using some of the spare parts I already have around and some hat I will buy. But before I…
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Shopping spree
Yahoo starts the new year with another acquisition – MyBlogLog.com. This is a move to further go into the blogger world, aside their own Yahoo! 360. True, the two are not quite in the same category, but MyBlogLog.com provide a nice service and the founders got rewarded through this. You can read their blog post…
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What I want for Christmas …
Aand yes, I know that Christmas passed already … but it still looks nice and I still like it. In case you like Mac’s you already know what I’m talking about – the iPhone. Although I’m not a big fan of phones (I still use a two year old mobile and I’m happy with it)…
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G did it again
Fortune magazine published the list of the best 100 companies to work for. And this year Google was eligible too (it exists for 7 years already). And, in googlish style, it jumped straight to number 1. So it must be a really darn cool place to work for. Check out the entire list here. Unfortunately…
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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…
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Battle of the frameworks
Commercial ones that is. InfoWorld put together four of the largests commercial AJAX frameworks and compared them. And the winner was Backbase. You can read the whole story here.