Strange Packing Materials
The following image was imprinted on some packing material from Dell. Things like this just crack me up…
Month: May 2007
Google Gears and Apollo… and Tubes?
Since reading this announcement on the Google Gears API Blog last evening, I’ve been wondering to myself (from time-to-time) how this would/could/will apply to the Apollo runtime. Apollo’s integrated web engine is WebKit which is the same engine the Safari browser runs on… but Safari is not supported by the Gears API as of yet. …
My Favorite New CS3 Feature (sarcasm)
The installer for CS3 Web Premium is horrible! This is a consistent experience across machines. In an attempt to install the product on a fresh copy of Windows XP, I’ve had to run the installer about 5 times now. I’ve had similar experiences on other machines, generally installing twice, and am now getting rather frustrated. …
Intel 2100 3a Mini PCI Wireless Card Solution
I own a Dell Inspiron 8600 notebook computer with the Intel 2100 3a Mini PCI wireless card installed. I’ve always had problems with this configuration and dealing will Dell over service issues the past few years has been nothing other than pointless as their service is non-existent… The main problem is that the connection (while …
Scalenine Appreciation
I’ve been aware of scalenine for some time now but haven’t had the chance to really look into the resources provided there until recently. I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to download these themes, pull them apart, and learn from example how to go about authoring a total customization of the Flex interface elements. Customization …
Destruction, Resurrection, and a New Design
At times I get the feeling that life would be simpler if I were to just totally remove all references of myself from the internet. This is, of course, pointless… once you have as much material out there as I do over the number of years I’ve been active within these “tubes”, it’s really impossible …
Flash CS3 ActionScript Editor Improvements
Flash CS3 has some long-awaited improvements in the integrated ActionScript editor. These are things that really used to drive me nuts and it’s great to see that Adobe has sought to make their tool nicer for developers to use. With increased pressure from external editors like SE|PY and FlashDevelop, I had hoped for more- but …
DUVAGAII in ‘The Clarion’
There is an article in the ‘Featured’ section of the University of Denver student newspaper ‘The Clarion’ this week. The article is entitled “Program improves media, audio in classrooms” and goes into a lot more detail than previous articles in other publications. A lot of emphasis is placed on fair use and student access to …
ApolloRanch: Boulder – The Day After
It was raining the entire evening so I left for Boulder fairly early. I actually arrived at the planetarium (the entire conference was inside a planetarium!) 20 minutes early and they hadn’t even begun setting up the registration tables. So I just hung back and had a look at all the materials posted along the …
Flash Remoting (AS2) in Flash CS3
I’m surprised that while any sort of remote connection classes you could want are included in the core packages of ActionScript 3.0, if you are working with ActionScript 2.0 within Flash CS3, the classes you need are still not included under a default install. I’ve lamented this fact for years as it has held true …
Flash CS3: New Video Export Features = NICE!
While the new, robust import of Photoshop and Illustrator files in Flash CS3 seem to be getting a lot of attention, often overlooked are the great improvements to the export of video from Flash. Older versions of the Flash IDE allowed export to Quicktime, but nested symbols could render strangely and most importantly, no ActionScript-generated …