Web Host Frustration…
Can anyone recommend a nice, stable, FAST webhost? My patience with this current host is wearing thin… plagued by mySQL slowness.
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Recent BETA Items of Interest
So, to delay my unavoidable participation in the initial “Flex/AIR/Flash” waterfall effect, I’ve waited till now to post anything about the massive new beta releases that have been available since last evening. Flex Builder 3: LOVE the new CSS design view. LOVE IT! I’m sure there are plenty more features of direct interest as well,
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Flash Media Encoder is Nice! *mostly*
Just had a chance to test the Flash Media Encoder and was pretty impressed. We’ve been using Flash Media Server for our VOD materials but have gone to QuickTime for live events. The main problem with FMS with a live stream is that it will only broadcast using the Spark codec and not VP6. FME
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Messing Around with Twitter
I’ve taken some time today to experiment with Twitter using the ActionScript 3.0 API that is available. It’s a very simple class library and, as such, pretty easy to build a widget around. One thing that has bothered me a bit is the seemingly lengthy amount of time the services take to update the API
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Strange Packing Materials
The following image was imprinted on some packing material from Dell. Things like this just crack me up…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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