http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2010-03-11T11:01:49+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 DannyT documents, for others and for himself in the future as he says, how to get a flex framework localized. Provisions for this will be in the Flex4 SDK by default, but this tip still has value today. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=47196D31-B898-378D-961BE37E2E265370 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-10T19:03:21+10:00 German over at java.dzone.com has a great article on db4o, a persistence engine that will make life easier for Java developers by giving them a middle ground option for dealing with data persistence, instead of relational databases with ORM tools, which are time-consuming, or serialization, which in Java is not straightforward for object persistence. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F69547-DED9-08D1-348E68BEADC53217 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-09T19:07:11+10:00 Microsoft isn’t done yet. Windows Phone 7 shows us that there are still new approaches to an OS for mobile devices that aren’t taking cues directly from iPhone. Check out the idea of navigating via horizontally scrolling built-in hubs to access People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace, and Office. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F69556-9611-4030-302604C64C07F7C9 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-09T19:07:11+10:00 Check out this interesting Flash app for doodling online, by Mario Klingemann at Quasimondo. I sense that it’s about exploring possibilities in Flash as much as anything. There’s a lot more to it than meets the eye at first. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3C642426-E9E1-58D9-EE85E0D31364062D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-08T17:09:08+10:00 Check out Rapportive’s Customer Relationship Management tool that integrates right into Gmail. It’s a Firefox /Chrome plugin that replaces ads in Gmail and gives you context as to the person with whom you’re corresponding by giving you a look at their social media profile. It is very, very slick and simple, and the value is [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=338FB0AC-E538-0172-1166F95EEDF20C20 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-07T00:00:07+10:00 Until now, electronic devices have never seriously challenged physical books when it comes to content delivery. But with Kindle, iPhone and others, and now iPad, make no mistake: here comes the sea-change in the way that we take in the written word. We are talking about consuming content in a way that’s different from how [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=338FB0BC-F45F-5A67-7D5DBCBDD48A4092 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-07T00:00:07+10:00 After experimenting with Groovyâ??s AST Browser and noticing that Groovyâ??s grammar allows closures as annotation values, “pniederw” coded an AST transformation that allows you to pass closures as annotation values. Check out how to empower annotations with Groovy closures. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2AD61E0E-99E9-2C89-16FCFC1BB752EE32 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-05T07:20:27+10:00 I’m on the road again, a little. Singapore has nearly ubiquitous internet access if you are local; it’s wrapped into your broadband payment as just another service or utility that everyone seems to have. The city is small and urbanized enough that this is practical. As modern and easy as Singapore is, especially when it [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2AD61E1E-A7DF-0286-A1A0EA2A7A204EFA DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-05T07:20:27+10:00 I do believe this qualifies as pertaining to “digital media”. As cool as the technology in this story is, much cooler by a mile of course is Roger Ebert showing us how in the face of bad news, not every step has to be a step backward. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2AD61E2D-CFCC-7694-D252519C2F60FD2E DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-05T07:20:27+10:00 From Jarfiller.com, here is a handy one-page reference for all of the syntax for JavaFX Script, the declarative scripting language for the JavaVM for building rich internet applications on various platforms. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=2AD61E3D-CE5E-EE28-CA685BCB64741B93 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-05T07:20:27+10:00 In a recent tweet StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp offered a $10,000 finder’s fee for a PHP architect rockstar. You know who you are. You will find a description of the position here. My work here is finished. Whatever you do don’t forget to tell StumbleUpon that Digital Media Minute sent you. Please. (via Amit Chowdhry) http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=16222F7B-F9A4-9DB7-877D240F1318E083 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-01T06:51:31+10:00 Okay, it’s an open question as to whether Jolicloud, the Linux/Ubuntu distro is the best OS for a netbook out there, but Dale Dougherty makes a pretty good case for it. Conceived as a “internet operating system” and flavored by the Prism project from Mozilla Labs, with Jolicloud websites can function like desktop applications, and you [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1204E082-FBEB-73BC-8F6B2FBDA504E0F3 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-28T11:41:01+10:00 Have you always secretly harbored a resentment over having to use the syntax that Python forces you to use, in order to make a living and earn the money that you need to go and party it up with your homeboys on the weekend? Like, Python will totally help you with that. Now you can [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=1204E092-C718-0C68-91B764CC286F481D DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-28T11:41:01+10:00 If you use Notepad++ and Subversion and are doing a project where a lot of commits are required, and you’d like to reduce the amount of time you spend going back and forth between Notepad++ and Windows Explorer to commit changes, check out the Subversion plugin for Notepad++, over at switchonthecode.com. Updates have the plugin [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=04522104-BB93-16C5-AB9976E06D062144 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-25T19:50:43+10:00 At weeks old already I know this is hopelessly dated, but I found John Gruber’s Macworld 2010 speech, on the top ten challenges facing Apple, interesting and funny. In admitting his disdain for “the F-word” (fanboy), he goes his critics one better by sarcastically musing about the future of his relationship with Apple, now that [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=04522113-DB61-B3E2-C04B3EC755DC646A DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-25T19:50:43+10:00 There’s a nice article over at dzone.com on the latest about Groovy’s GPars library from its project lead, as well as overviews of some of its features like the Asynchronizer class, Actors, and the concurrent collection processor Parallelizer. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=04522123-963D-8DB5-AEC5E0E2E9C2F055 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-25T19:50:43+10:00 Frustrated with what he saw as limitations of IDLE, Noam Yorav-Raphael created DreamPie, a Python Shell that he claims is a new kind of interactive shell, combining the best features of IDLE, IPython and the Python shell. The window is divided into the ‘history box’, for viewing previous commands/output, and a ‘code box’, and you [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=F9A0E123-B9C2-5CF7-0AADCE14B620DF00 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-23T18:00:55+10:00 Have you heard of Chatroulette yet? Dreamed up by a 17-year-old Russian, it allows you to bounce as quickly as you want in a totally random way between other Chatroulette users in the world. The site is really just two windows, one showing you and the other showing your chat partner. If you want to [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=F9A0E133-C338-75CE-F997991A7BA46926 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-23T18:00:55+10:00 Jason over at mulesoft.org outlines performance improvements for Tomcat for Debian and Ubuntu to enhance reliability and usability. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=F9A0E142-E73F-F565-5BD7CD29C27A0058 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-23T18:00:55+10:00 Over at net.tutsplus.com David Walsh has a long article comprised of fifteen highly-detailed tips for optimizing your MooTools JavaScript framework code. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E9546CF2-B176-CC1F-7265F4F9A241DDA8 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-20T14:03:29+10:00 I would point web designers, aspiring and otherwise, to the BBC Internet blog and its fascinating overview of the BBC website redesign. It is an object a lesson in what we can accomplish with high ambitions (and admittedly deep pockets), and it’s interesting to see an organization of this scale sharing the collective thought process [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E9546D01-B0AE-50EA-9972A61FEE896E22 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-20T14:03:29+10:00 Here’s an excellent 37-item list of Django tips, tutorials and articles bundled all in one place with an emphasis on recent items, over at komunitasweb.com http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DF92FDDE-9F64-54BE-D4AEED88245A5FF4 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-18T16:35:37+10:00 If you have ever tried to stitch together a panoramic photograph with Photoshop or similar software, you know that it’s a fairly labor-intensive task. Pano is a way to create panoramic photos stitched together from photos you take with your iPhone. A semi-transparent guide helps you line up each photo, and processing is aided by [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DF7F9107-90BF-F02A-EE8E4145B38B76F3 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-18T16:14:24+10:00 There is a very nice article on composition versus inheritance that you should check out if object oriented development is something you do. Chad Myers’ basic thrust is that inheritance is overused in many cases when object designs would be better served by composition, and he nicely weaves critical parts of  Design Patterns: Elements [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DF7F9126-DC04-E7DA-27AA80C9FD22846F DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-18T16:14:24+10:00 Do you want to see something that makes Google Earth look like stone etchings? Check out this talk from Ted2010, of the 3-D functionality in Bing Maps from Bing Maps’ Blaise Aguera y Arcas. This is far, far from using 3-D maps with the intent of simply finding your way around. It is closer than [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=CE047DC3-D9E3-66CA-4C58DED44ADAA1F5 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-15T06:46:25+10:00 Has Google Buzz had its 15 minutes of fame or what? I’m not going to explain how you can avoid showing the entire planet all of your contacts–there are a thousand other sites where you can find that info–but I did find this list of undocumented little tips for Google Buzz interesting: Post from SMS? [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=CE047DD3-DBEA-DD8D-46D28096FE855FD2 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-15T06:46:25+10:00 Brian Egan makes a good case for Chrome 4 for developers, especially in comparison to Firefox with Firebug, covering Chrome’s Web Inspector, the JavaScript console, the Elements Panel, Chrome Resources and five extensions that make it invaluable for developers. There is no longer too much of a compromise if you want to go with Chrome, [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C4D05223-9328-D6B6-71186E0003BEB0BE DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-13T11:52:51+10:00 The open source MakeHuman software lets you model photorealistic humanoid 3-D characters in less than two minutes, or so says the documentation. The GUI looks very friendly and you can export figures in 3D graphics formats that are supported by many different modellers and rendering engines. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C0050933-D681-82EE-A2F331B690F32039 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-12T13:32:20+10:00 Here’s an introductory video on IronPython, open source .NET implementation of Python which allows those programming in Python the benefits of the .NET libraries while still being able to maintain compatibility with CPython. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=BA032E96-AD38-803A-6852C17B394395EE DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-11T09:32:35+10:00 Digital Media Minute recently did a list post evaluating seven website uptime monitoring services; here’s a nice tutorial from catswhocode.com on creating a website uptime monitor script using PHP, which will also send you an email or sms if it’s down. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B88A1396-BCEE-BC27-3E3960A2BD30CB39 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-11T02:40:41+10:00 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