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Project HUGE: Huge In A Hurry - Get Big - Phase 3 / Week 1
So this week, I started Phase 3 of the Get Big program in Chad Waterbury's Huge In A Hurry workout . This is the final phase (not counting the unloading week) of the "Get Big" program. Workout A Load: Super Heavy (2-3 RM) Reps: 15 Power Clean Dumbbell Incline Bench Press Front Squat Standing Single-Leg Calf Raises Workout B ... Read More »
July 4, 2009 07:30 AM
Create A Running Average Without Storing Individual Values
I was thinking about how to be answer a new ColdFusion-based " Ask Ben " question about a rating system when I thought about creating numeric averages. All my life, when creating an average, I followed the simple formula of dividing the sum of a collection by the number of its entries: Average = Sum / N This, of course, requires you to have both the sum and the count of a ... Read More »
July 4, 2009 03:54 AM
ColdFusion Security Issue - FCKEditor
Many blogs are reporting this, and frankly I don't have more to add to the already good reports out there, but be sure you read and respond to this new issue involving FCKEditor. Details:
CF8 and FCKEditor Security Threat
ColdFusion 8 FCKeditor...
July 4, 2009 02:10 AM
ColdFusion 9 ORM and why I see deception
Not trying to be contradictive here (maybe a little bit) or rain on anyones parade, but I've been hearing and seeing loads of fuss from people who are "just waiting" for ColdFusion 9 ORM to be released, or some people who have projects where ColdFusion 9 ORM "would suit just perfectly".
Whilst I find it to be perfectly normal and very exciting, I can also predict some deception is to come.
Obviously this doesn't apply to everybody, but to some people who are expecting too much of it. When I sa
July 4, 2009 12:31 AM
Adobe Announces That HomeSite Is Officially Dead
With the exception of new ColdFusion tag definitions, we all know that there hasn't been any active development on HomeSite in a long time. Dreamweaver, CFEclipse, and now Adobe Bolt have long since taken over that product path. But still, it made me a bit sad to find out earlier this week on Twitter that Adobe officially announced the death of HomeSite as a product as of May 26, 2009, not only in development but also in s ... Read More »
July 4, 2009 12:00 AM
More on Michael Jackson…
I have loved Michael Jackson for as long as I can remember, as the following picture hopefully illustrates:
If anyone has a copy of the SEGA “Moonwalker” ROM or an actual disk, please let me know!
I take the loss of Michael Jackson to heart, it is very saddening and humbling to me that a man of [...]
July 3, 2009 09:13 PM
First Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup
The inaugural meeting of the newly formed Bangalore ColdFusion Usergroup will take place July 09, 2009, at the Adobe Bangalore office. ColdFusion engineering team members will present ColdFusion Centaur and Bolt. Details posted online.
July 3, 2009 09:12 PM
Flex Mania
Next week I’ll doing a session about Efflex online as a part of the Brazilian event,Flex Mania.
Arranged by Igor Costa, its mainly Portuguese but there’s a couple of English talks (I won’t be speaking in Portuguese).
I’ll be speaking 7th July at 11:30am GMT.
July 3, 2009 09:11 PM
FlashMoto CMS Review
There’s a new Flash CMS on the block and it’s called FlashMoto. The concept sounds fantastic and the interface design is extremely well done. But what’s actually under the hood? Let’s take a closer look!
What is FlashMoto and what does it do?
FlashMoto allows users to create and manage a Flash Web site very [...]
July 3, 2009 09:10 PM
Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]
Unity 3D’s Web Player on the PC and Mac both Intel and PowerPC - Don Burnett's Designing For .NET Blog - Designing for .NET
Short unity mention
UNITY 3D: “The Future of Web and Mobile Gaming” - Eventbrite
Vancouver Unity Users Group
Welcome to dimeRocker!
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Reserve your game handle and play Defcon-Z
Reddit’s Decline in Democracy
reddit.com: help
Redditing Reddit Advertisements
Online SEO Tools - the Ultimate Collection
Su.pr - An Extraordinary URL Shortener from StumbleU
July 3, 2009 09:10 PM
3dfishtank
nikkoid's 3d fishtank is now in the appstore. Relaxing- enjoy it. I did.
July 3, 2009 09:10 PM
GUIÂ Mockup
Have you seen or used Balsamiq Mockups? Looks like a very cool and easy-to-use tool for creating mockups of GUIs, fast. I’m going to have fun playing with the demo this weekend.
July 3, 2009 09:10 PM
Machsend: P2P file sharing via Browser Plus
Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser.
It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality.
I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)
July 3, 2009 09:09 PM
YouTube S60 client updated
Via AllAboutSymbian, YouTube S60 client got an updated.
Alessandro
July 3, 2009 09:09 PM
Converting ColdFusion data for jQuery Plugins - An example
Kerrie asks:
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post you wrote on jQuery and form validation... really peaked my interest so I've been taking a look at not only the validation plugin, but many of the other great jQuery plugins... I found this one...
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July 3, 2009 01:31 PM
Adjusting audio pitch in Flash Player 10
Update: Andre Michelle wrote some much better code to adjust the pitch of an external sound. I was secretly hoping he would. Check it out at http://blog.andre-michelle.com/2009/pitch-mp3. Thanks Andre!
Here is another sound example that shows how to adjust the pitch of an external sound. This is an extension of the example that can be found [...]
July 3, 2009 09:01 AM
Working on a Mac, Day 4
The Good:
The screen on the MacBook Pro is bright and the dot pitch is low enough that it doesn’t bother me at all.
Text is very, very pretty.
Most of the software I’m used to on my Ubuntu machine works on the Mac, too.
The whole Disk Image (.dmg file) concept is brilliant. Dragging apps into the [...]
July 3, 2009 09:00 AM
Mobilise your website, build a launcher!
Alessandro published a great tool to create a luncher for your mobile site. Basically the only tool creates a web runtime app to launch a mobile site. It’s very simple and it takes few second to create your custom launcher.
Alessandro
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
OVI Maps 3.0 and OVI Contacts released
Via AllAboutSymbain, Nokia OVI Maps and OVI Contacts have been released.
Alessandro
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
ColdFusion: Experiment Converting MS Word to HTML/PDF - Part 2 Example
A brief addendum to Part 2. Here is an example of using a OpenXMLViewer.exe from a .bat file. Just update the directory to match the location of the OpenXMLViewer folder on your system.Note, the cd (change directory) statement in the first line is important. If you have not added the OpenXMLViewer folder to your PATH environment variable, you must call the program from within the parent directory so it can locate the needed dependency files. BAT File@ECHO OFFREM ************************
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.
John told us:
Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice).
Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
More than you ever want to see about encoding
Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings.
Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way…. as he talked about
en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr
Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Calendar Component in ActionScript 3 Part 3
So far we've seen how to implement the calendar component, and explored the logic inside the Calendar class itself. From here I will show the logic inside of the Day class, and talk about potential ways to expand the component.
When I first created the Day class I named it AbstractDay because I had a number of ways that I wanted to extend it for my own uses. When I open sourced the project I wanted to have a default state for the component, so anyone could just use it as is, so rather than w
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Silex - Open Source RIA
SourceForge's FOSS project of the month of June was Silex. From the SourceForge writeup: "Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites
for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind of CMS, a mix
between an editing software like the Adobe Creative Suite, and Wiki
based software.
All multimedia file formats -- images of all kinds, texts, videos with
chapters and subtitles, audio and playlists, 3D animations, .pdf files,
etc. can be assembled in Silex WYSIWYG editor
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Introduction to Adobe Flash Collaborative Services
Introduction
AFCS (Adobe Flash Collaboration Service) previously known as 'Cocomo' is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that that allows Flex developers to address a class of applications known as collaborative applications.
Collaborative Applications have progressed from a nice cool thing into serious applications. Almost all of us would have participated in an online chat or a web meeting, which allows a group of users to chat, share files, do screen sharing, take polls, ask questions and rece
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Best Online Chess
A small detour from all things Ruby, PHP and Twitter today.
Recently I’ve formed an opinion about who has the Best Online Chess site. For years I endured the rudeness, the primitive interface, and the time spent wasted just trying to find a game with the Yahoo chess experience. No more. Chesscube made online chess [...]
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Vancouver Unity3D users group kickoff July 24, 2009 [unityusersgroup]
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July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Links for 2009-07-01 [del.icio.us]
Adsense Smart Pricing Explained
GOOGLE AdSense Tips For Maximum Earnings and how to avoid 'smart pricing'
Why You aren't Making Money with Adsense
Search-based keyword tool
Servé's Game Development Unity 3D Blog: Unity 3D
WhoLinksToMe: Reputation Management Reimagined
The Real Problem with Network Marketing and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)
Lifehacker - Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features - Firefox 3.5
Ant Presentation Files | thecrumb.com
Architecting a Flex 4 component | Ayone Blog
FLEX{er} &raq
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
UNITY 3D: â??The Future of Web and Mobile Gamingâ?쳌 - Eventbrite
Vancouver Unity Users Group
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Unity 3Dâ??s Web Player on the PC and Mac both Intel and PowerPC - Don Burnett's Designing For .NET Blog - Designing for .NET
Short unity mention
July 3, 2009 08:59 AM
Adobe User Group Tour
As you probably know, we launched the first public betas for Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, and Flex SDK 4 in June 2009. And we had about 100 events across the world, events that were driven by the communities (Adobe User Groups). I had the pleasure to present at four events: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Bucharest, Romania; [...]
July 3, 2009 08:58 AM
Quotables: Who cares, big ideas, and copyists vs. copyright holders
This is the "my lawn needs more water and my wife disagrees"
edition of Programming Quotables .
If you don't know - I don't like to have too many microposts on this blog
( I'm on twitter for that ), so I save them up as I run across them,
and every once in a while I'll post a few of them. The idea is to post quotes about programming that have
one or more of the following attributes:
I find funny
I find asinine
I find insightfully true
And stand on their own, with ...
July 3, 2009 08:58 AM
Query of query issue with where clause/joins
A user reported this to me earlier in the week. I was sure he was wrong until I confirmed it myself. Imagine you have 2 queries you want to join using a query of query. Here is a quick sample.
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July 3, 2009 06:46 AM
Width Problem with Firefox
Recently I ran into a problem that I had to build a Flash movie which should fit the browser window meaning the Flash movie is embedded with 100%x100%.
The problem I had is that even if I resized the browser window to something like 400x400 the stage.width property still showed 662. ...
July 2, 2009 10:16 AM
From London to Sydney and back again
In just a few days, almost four years later than expected, Iâ??ll be making my return journey from Australia to the UK.
Living and working in Australia has been awesome, Iâ??ve had the opportunity to work with some excellent companies like http://www.massive.com.au/ and more recently the Ã?ber creative http://www.hollersydney.com.au whilst enjoying one of the best cities [...]
July 2, 2009 10:14 AM
Dope â?? the new/old FWA
So, our creative director http://between0and1.wordpress.com has just come across http://www.dopeawards.com as we got a ‘recognition’ for 6 beers (sweeeet!!). I’m thinking this might make a welcome change to the now ‘video heavy’ http://thefwa.com . Funny thing is, dope awards looks a lot like the fwa of yester-year – anybody else noticed this?
Bookmark:
July 2, 2009 10:14 AM
Samsung people â?? voting has started
The previously mentioned Samsung People site now has voting, plus a few new effects. Check it out.
Bookmark:
July 2, 2009 10:14 AM
Ant Presentation Files
I’ve finally bundled up my Ant presentation files. I recently gave this presentation at TACFUG (Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group) and got some pretty positive feedback.
Hopefully now with the examples – people who attended can hack these up and do something useful with them!
This file contains:
Older PPT version of the presentation I gave on CFMeetup [...]
July 2, 2009 10:12 AM
Sansa e280 and Rockbox on Ubuntu 9.04
This post probably has a very limited audience, but what else is new. ;-) I'm finally getting around to de-Appleizing my music collection (more on that in my forthcoming Amahi chronicles), and yesterday I installed Rockbox on my Sansa e280. The e280 ...
July 2, 2009 10:12 AM
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook Available for Kindle
The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook from O’Reilly is now available for the Kindle. This book is great for anyone from beginning to advanced and covers Flex, Flash, and JavaScript/HTML AIR development:
The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios often encountered when using Adobe AIR to build Rich [...]
July 2, 2009 10:12 AM
sebtags 1.0 RC4 (security issue)
Pete Freitag recently pointed out a security issue with file uploads. This affected file uploads in cf_sebForm so this update addresses this issue. The update also has other tweeks and features, but no point in covering those until I have some real documentation (soon, I hope). Anyway, if you are using the sebtags custom tags set, upgrade now.
July 2, 2009 10:11 AM
Ruby LDAP
LDAP in Ruby is better than LDAP in C#/.NET. Looking at it, I can't say it's much different minus the cruft from .NET.
Experiencing it while actually writing code , it's very different. I can't explain it, except to show it to you and tell you try it.
Ruby LDAP code is at github
even though existing solutions with good examples point you to what are now broken links.
To install (despite README.txt saying otherwise):
gem install ruby-net-ldap
And here's some LDAP login/aut
July 2, 2009 10:10 AM
Passing URL parameters to a Flash application
I have identified three cases in which you may want to extract parameters passed via the URL to your Flash application:
a)The URL is something like this: http://www.test.com/page.html?parameter=test. The SWF file is included in the HTML page.
Solution: Use the ExternalInterface to extract the data from URL. Itâ??s not a nice solution but I do not know [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Passing URL parameters to a Flash application", url: "http://cornelcreanga.com/2009/07/passing-url-parameters-to
July 2, 2009 10:10 AM
Are You Full As A Goog?
