http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2010-02-09T22:45:41+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 After an entertaining introduction Roberto Bicchierai gives us a pretty comprehensive review of available JavaScript grid components. He divides the list of JavaScript grid editor into: data-driven, light editing implementations emphasizing “editing agility”, and JavaScript Excel spreadsheet clones. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081BD87-9527-80F3-1481DFC05D5CA74A DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-09T13:14:37+10:00 Geoffrey Grosenbach walks us through a 25 minute upgrade of a his news screenshot site, formerly a Rails 2 app, to Rails 3, in a PeepCode screencast. Here come the Rails 3 upgrades! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AA666DC4-FC59-F5E4-456C0FEB9592AED7 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-08T08:47:04+10:00 One of the easiest places on the net to find icons has got to be iconfinder.net. The slick interface allows you to browse, search or quickly look through a huge selection of high-quality icons by tag, as well as filter by icons that are free for commercial use or personal use only. Icon sets are [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=A3D302B0-05CF-DE67-AF29D1197324601E DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-07T02:08:20+10:00 Veera Sundar has a nice list of five ways that you can use firebug to edit HTML and CSS. It is amazing how easy firebug makes it to visually modify a page layout… If you’d like to go deeper, Digital Media Minute as a popular tutorial on debugging Javascript with Firebug. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=A3D302BF-E9E5-294C-35BC59CCF0F3BB00 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-07T02:08:20+10:00 Groovy is a dynamic programming language for the JVM that combines Java’s enterprise capabilities with productivity features like closures, builders, dynamic typing and meta-programming. It can either be interpreted or compiled and you can add new methods to classes dynamically at run time, with greater flexibility than standard Java offers. There seems to be an [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=A3D302CF-CFED-A73B-09B0F2D229374112 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-07T02:08:20+10:00 If you upgraded to the new FeedDemon 3.1 and English isn't your primary language, then you'll be pleased to hear that Chinese, Czech, French, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish language files are now freely available. The simplest way to switch to a different language is to select Tools > Options > Language > Download Additional Languages from within FeedDemon.  From there you can select the language file you wish to use, and FeedDemon will take care of downloading a http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=9D1AB2A9-DA7B-DFA2-DB462385085D1910 DreamweaverMX TopStyle 2010-02-05T18:49:17+10:00 Groovy is a dynamic programming language for the JVM that combines Java’s enterprise capabilities with productivity features like closures, builders, dynamic typing and meta-programming. It can either be interpreted or compiled and you can add new methods to classes dynamically at run time, with greater flexibility than standard Java offers. There seems to be an [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=9D1526AE-FA4C-49AF-9EADB586D339A0B7 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-05T18:43:14+10:00 There is hope for mankind. Our imagination will save us. Or something. What do you do if your wife cries uncontrollably at the end of every single movie you watch? Clearly you buy the domain cryingwife.com and post videos of her weepy film reviews. As a bonus there is her hysterical railing against the injustice of [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=9D1526BD-C32B-D01C-68B3E86D01C8F45D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-05T18:43:14+10:00 Have you dreaded synchronization when you have concurrent Java applications and multiple threads simultaneously running and need to ensure that these multiple threads have access to the data they share? Immutable data structures can minimize the need to synchronize. Here’s a post from Jim McClure on reducing and localizing the necessity for synchronization by creating and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=96615A8C-053C-2AF0-250D3417EB1FEEE7 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-04T11:29:07+10:00 Learn that by taking your brand mobile and leveraging the unique properties of the medium, you have an opportunity to extend your brand's reach, deepen the customer relationship, build brand loyalty, and even create a new revenue stream. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=949DAE20-F4D0-4BF6-2C3257A8673917E0 DreamweaverMX MM Dreamweaver 2010-02-04T03:15:46+10:00 Learn that by taking your brand mobile and leveraging the unique properties of the medium, you have an opportunity to extend your brand's reach, deepen the customer relationship, build brand loyalty, and even create a new revenue stream. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=949C6239-DDB4-ED93-57EE64ED654BD58E DreamweaverMX MM Fireworks 2010-02-04T03:14:21+10:00 MS Office as a video game? UI truism “Don’t make me think!” is too simplistic? Game designer Danc over at lostgarden.com has a thoughtful post about how game design will improve application design. Oh yeah, Ribbon Hero is the name of the aforementioned video game, available as a download from Microsoft, that will transform using Office into [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=94901529-972C-8846-E052F1AC7076F033 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-04T03:00:55+10:00 Matt Cutts has a nice ‘notes to myself’ post on installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=94901538-C846-D8F6-CE8C8A4D263F62DE DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-04T03:00:55+10:00 Steven Frank leads us on a speculative-but-insightful journey on the future of computing as illuminated by (you guessed it) iPad. Frank sees a “New World” in front of us, which began in 2007 with the introduction of iPhone or possibly a few years earlier with the arrival of Web 2.0 applications. The gist of [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=94901548-CBFF-2613-BD215CEB7ACD0860 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-04T03:00:55+10:00 When I watched the introduction of the iPad the other day, the first time my jaw dropped was when I saw ol’ Steve open up the New York Times site, showing an enormous blue box where flash content might otherwise have been. I thought “I can’t believe Steve Jobs is showing me this in 2010″. My [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=857AADD7-EF98-47C0-86F00066C1B9F522 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-01T04:43:14+10:00 Custom AS3 Namespaces, which allow you to control access to members of a class by defining access rules yourself, can be used to document special conditions for member access, provide custom access domains and prevent name collisions. Here’s a comprehensive guide to using namespaces in AS3 (as opposed to XML namespaces), from Grant Skinner. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=857AADE7-BC42-BC07-025EE53CDD8D67B7 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-01T04:43:14+10:00 If you’re a Mac user and looking for better Actionscript Editors, here’s one developer’s opinion as to why IntelliJIDEA 9 is the way to go rather than Actionscript programming environments like TextMate or Flex/Flash Builder. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=857AADF6-9BA8-FD49-0EA490EE1C939F56 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-01T04:43:14+10:00 If you’re creating a local database but have an amount of data that might be a little too big for XML serialization, take a look at db4o if you aren’t already familiar with it. Here’s a little intro and demo of this open source object-oriented database, which makes it unnecessary for Java and .NET developers [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=857AAE06-BDC7-D0EF-F07661DB3470758D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-01T04:43:14+10:00 A small part of what I’d like Digital Media Minute to be is meta-commentary on technology, i.e. exploring where all these details in which we are up to our elbows, are taking us. Otherwise, what the hell is the point anyway? BTW I’m in no way disparaging our immersion in these ‘details’ with which we [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=7168A878-9F98-84E8-DD6F1CC20308A770 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-28T07:11:09+10:00 Far be it from me to wade into any Subversion vs Git debate, but from the have-your-Git-and-eat-it-too department, here’s a nice little tip from Neil Middleton about using Git as a subversion client via git-svn. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=7168A887-AC70-A339-F83C27D4320EFCBD DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-28T07:11:09+10:00 Digital Inspiration has a nice overview of the new translate feature in FeedDemon 3.1.  I love the animated GIF they created to demonstrate this feature! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=67C290C0-DF8E-88EA-8AFC90E1B2331532 DreamweaverMX TopStyle 2010-01-26T10:13:09+10:00 So Bill Gates has a new blog, called The Gates Notes. Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand.com has some free SEO advice for Bill. This is pretty hard to believe. (At the moment, every page on his site has the same title tag…seriously) It does read as superb intro advice for a beginner though. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=658C0F8B-9954-AF78-92332E3C91A9F060 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-25T23:54:22+10:00 Here’s a concise little list of ways to optimize the size of your Flex applications to reduce memory consumption and improve performance of Flex apps, from askmeflash.com http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=658C0F9B-EA66-943C-EF930A5C0B148199 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-25T23:54:22+10:00 What comes after Google’s Street View? As cool as that is, what if there was a way to have an interactive, 360°, full-motion video experience? Immersive Media gives you StreetScene, a very slick click/drag method for controlling your viewing. Have fun. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=63A19C3F-0DF1-CE40-A2CE39E84860EA9A DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-25T14:58:40+10:00 I'm very pleased to announce the availability of FeedDemon 3.1.  Despite the minor version change, this is a significant release â?? there are some major new features which I think you're going to love. If you're in a hurry and don't want to read the rest of this post, you can check out the release notes for details on what's new, or you can skip all that and simply download FeedDemon 3.1 right now. Still with me?  Good!  I'd like to introduce you to some of the new featuresâ?¦ http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=5E62AC60-9860-402E-C9B498F845427B51 DreamweaverMX TopStyle 2010-01-24T14:31:49+10:00 It looks like there’s a new kid on the block when it comes to monitoring your website uptime: uptimerobot.com. It has advantages over some of the established players in that it is a free service that allows you to monitor up to 50 of your websites. There’s no limit on the number of SMS notifications [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=5E5DB0DD-E478-BC01-8B9E590D4337EF0A DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-24T14:26:23+10:00 Lots of time is saved by automating repetitive tasks with scripts, but there has always been a learning curve associated with using them, much less creating them. The Sikuli graphical scripting language, a fascinating bit of tech created at MIT, enables programming using GUI screenshots rather than lines of code. Check the screencast showing automation [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=5A57E27E-D3D2-0D59-E4A1FD5AEC88BECA DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-23T19:41:34+10:00 In case you haven’t heard, yesterday Firebug 1.5.0 was released by Joe Hewitt, Rob Campbell and the rest of the gang at the FirebugWorkingGroup. New for this release, which is apparently a big one, is an enhanced Inspector, improved HTML editing and a lot more. Digital Media Minute did a very popular Firebug tutorial screencast [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=5A57E28D-DF78-E8E5-F9375A602201AB7B DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-23T19:41:34+10:00 With the command line-based ASDoc tool you can write simple comments in AS3 classes, then create HTML documentation out of them, which lets you maintain your source code and documentation simultaneously. ASDocr builds upon the nativeProcess APIs in AIR 2.0 and gives you an easy GUI for ASDoc. Grant Skinner gives us an overview and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4DA66EA1-C5FD-5D75-59BFDBB3CE97F43B DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-21T08:32:17+10:00 Interesting post over at pmcoder.com about one software developer’s reasons for deciding to leave PHP in favor of Grails and Groovy. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4AB7CC65-BD0F-E116-8CE368CC9CE7446D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-20T18:52:24+10:00 Have you heard of Adhearsion? It bills itself as a new, open source way for you to create voice enabled applications. It’s a fully featured framework, done in Ruby with a comprehensive regression test suite, that aims to help web developers with no previous experience in telephony combine Web 2.0 with voice. Adhearsion uses the [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4485AD95-C232-0AC6-F63120E887C9E9C3 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-19T13:59:56+10:00 Clay Shirky, author of books on the effect of the internet and technology on our culture (Here Comes Everybody), has a short essay worth reading in edge.org. Get yourself some coffee and strap in. It is our misfortune to live through the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race, a misfortune [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4485ADA5-EBF0-12F9-9D677A2B60CCA01E DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-19T13:59:56+10:00 Over the years and quite a few moves on two different continents, my documents have become a barely-managed trail of valuable information that has become less and less secure over time because of my lifestyle. I decided that it was time to look into some method of digital document management, and I’d imagine I’m not [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4485ADB4-A858-CC45-7B1C0537B9C72192 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-19T13:59:56+10:00 Metaprogramming anyone? If you are a Rubyist struggling a little with JavaScript but interested in learning transfer skills, here is an excellent Ruby to Javascript tutorial from fingernailsinoatmeal.com. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3A8A5BE6-B90A-0C32-4316C1A055D46023 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-17T15:28:51+10:00 Here’s a story about just how easy it is to make a cool piece of tech whose usefulness outpaces anything you might have imagined when you created it. Twitter engineer Alex Payne describes the way that the minimalist masterpiece downforeveryoneorjustme.com came into being, and why he sold it. Very refreshing to read a success story motivated [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=34E3DA7B-FDFC-4BD9-45783DBF2A67BC7C DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-16T13:08:52+10:00 Digital Media Minute has done a ton of posts on subversion over the years, including a pretty well-received post on how to move a subversion repository– in that vein, in case you haven’t heard yet, another idea whose time has come: the WANdisco Subversion Community, just a few weeks old, aims to be a-one-stop solution [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=34E3DA8B-0672-F592-BFA008A37B6904C6 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-16T13:08:52+10:00 For his own future reference, and ours, Neil Middleton shows us exactly how to clone remote branches using Git, ie by creating a tracking branch. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=28283A7E-DBE5-B94E-52D78EEECB3AA5BE DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-14T01:48:30+10:00 Yehuda Katz, lead developer of the Merb project and now a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, has a remarkably clear writing style. Here he explains how ActiveModel exposes some of the useful functionality contained in monolithic components in Rails 3, similar to the way that ActionPack facilitates reuse of the router, dispatcher, [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=25ED8F03-E421-F637-EA77F7A4EA142DFA DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-13T15:25:10+10:00 Chris McCoy is a man with a vision, and his company, YourSports.com, might just be an idea whose time has come. Its slogan, “No such thing as an away game”, sums up its mission to bring sports coverage of any event to anyone who wants watch sports online. Interest On The Sidelines If you type “watch sports [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=25ED8F13-EB15-26FE-0521F907A476B314 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-13T15:25:10+10:00 Watch these videos to learn how Fireworks plays an indispensable role in the information and interaction design process. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=25465070-D08F-ACBD-8F2399A071E55BB8 DreamweaverMX MM Fireworks 2010-01-13T12:22:30+10:00 Here’s an excellent, detailed article from IBM’s developerWorks that tells you how to integrate Adobe Flex apps into portals, using an IBM WebSphere Portal portlet as an example. If you are an enterprise developer interested in combining Flex with WebSphere portal you might find it instructive. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1B8E92AE-F796-2E6B-A6DCDB1AEED3A036 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-11T15:05:13+10:00 Wow have you seen Samsung’s new OLED see-through display? It’s not ready yet for actual release but it looks very damn impressive anyway. I don’t know that I want a laptop with this screen, but the applications for this are endless. Note how thin the surface is when the video zooms in. Can I put [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1516C6C5-A7B4-E769-3F8C91EE25EA53EC DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-10T08:56:39+10:00 List posts have value for me as they cut through Internet chaos so that I need but one bookmark that functions as a pointer to many helpful places all across the Net with info on just one subject. If it’s a topic I may revisit, not having to remake the list is a huge time [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=10F2ED3D-DFFF-AA9C-FF1E7340FC7ADE9C DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-09T13:39:00+10:00 Wondering if any regular (or irregular) readers have recommendations for a digital to analog audio converter. I need a converter so I can run the two-channel digital audio signal coming from my DVD/CD setup to what you might call a ‘legacy’ sound system, despite the RCA-style analog outputs on my amp. I got a good suggestion [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=0C5EAB18-CB4C-7356-02E506DC99D00054 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-08T16:18:35+10:00 You’ve heard that John Mayer has decided to do a digital detox with no Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking site, no text messages and no entertainment or gossip sites, for an entire week. He likens the digital cleanse to defragmenting a hard drive, which is a pretty good analogy. You know what it [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=0C5EAB27-95CF-4C87-F7010207152958A8 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-08T16:18:35+10:00 Dave Raggett has authored HTML Slidy, a cross-browser XHTML slideshow creator that runs like Powerpoint. Just click on the window to advance to the next slide. Each presentation is a single XHTML file. It can be run offline. It can incrementally display slide contents ie bullet points or layered images, for instance. You [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=027BE335-CECE-3F6A-E53237483BAEE907 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-06T18:14:18+10:00 I ran across this fascinating article by Kris Sowersby, a professional font designer who wrote about his font-design process using the creation of his font Newzalt as an example. Concept doodles through to a general outline of the marketing of the font, including kerning (for all you kerning fans, you know who you are), mastering, [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=027BE345-D770-6687-C70B0FD598994E2F DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-06T18:14:18+10:00 Happy 2010 everybody. It’s back to work tomorrow so we’ll have a final holiday laugh, courtesy of applerejectedme.com. I suppose the site might have been started to attract legitimate developers’ stories as to the circumstances under which their iPhone apps were rejected for inclusion into the app store, but the temptation to have some fun was [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=F64F2875-E57E-2065-64A7BFAF1184EF9D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-04T09:30:00+10:00 Google’s Thomas R. Stromberg created an easy way to find the speediest DNS servers that are available for your computer. Namebench runs its benchmark using web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets to give you your recommendation. You can then change your DNS settings to use Google’s Public DNS rather than that of your [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=F2DE841F-D50A-529D-D303AF82F6E595D2 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-03T17:28:06+10:00 Yehuda Katz relays four repeatable steps for getting a rails 3 app up and running. Hit the link to take a look at the code for the process: Check out Rails/Generate a new app/Edit the appâ??s Gemfile/Bundle. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=ECA11E68-E615-8F0A-C5136A2F5FA02475 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-01-02T12:23:19+10:00