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I am an Apple hold out no longer. After decades of resisting and even withstanding years of adoption peer pressure working/living in neighboring towns of Cupertino, I have jumped on the bandwagon. I bought my wife a gen2 iPod Touch, paid $99 to test apps, downloaded/installed the SDK, started …
For our grandparents, it was the penny arcade.
For us, and the younger generation, it’s got to be more interactive. And not just interactive, but a way to politely offend a complete stranger.
For just 25 cents, a quarter as it’s known in our United States currency, you can shoot a …
After sitting in a box for 5 years (that’s 5 years too long), I finally unpacked my G.I. Joe collection to display all 75+ of them in my custom-built glass cabinet. Upon opening the box and sorting them out, I discovered about 12 of them were broken. Having a fixed bunch of them before, I …
With 4 bugs, (3 of them live) in the bug vacuum, I thought I’d share a view inside the chamber.
You can get your very ownBug Vacuum from Amazon.
Flex Builder has a new name. That name, you should know by now, is going to be Flash Builder.
I very badly (well, as badly as any individual possibly could who 1. was not an Adobe employee, nor 2. had anything to gain financially from a name change) wanted this back when Flex went from 1.5 [...]
1.) Top Gun, the movie, was based on an article called “Top Guns” discovered by Producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
2.) Jeffrey Katzenberg originally approved the writing of the movie for the studio.
3.) The writers signed on mainly so they could have a chance to fly in a jet fighter …
At one point I was going. At one point I was speaking. Unfortunately, for me, I’m unable to do either this year. For the first time since the original 360Flex, I won’t be attending the event next week in Indy. And it just sucks for me.
This event is the best, in my opinion, for all …
Just got back from another GREAT FITC conference in Toronto. I am really beginning to love that city, and the conference just continues to get better every year. Each time I go, I bring back something new, usually fevered inspiration for another hot technology or technique associated with Flash …
I’m working on a Ribbit Directory demo app and started exploring data binding with E4X. Basically, I created a php service, anchored with a simple MySQL database, that serves up XML to the Flex app. I feel a little late to the game with E4X, but who cares. It rocks! I’ve meddled so …
I received notification on Friday that I have been accepted to join our town's Public School Technology Committee. It is something I learned about when we first moved here at the beginning of the year. There was a posting on the town's web site about how the committee was forming and that they …
