February 2008

The Archives

• AIR, Flex

  air experiments

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m experimenting with AIR development … native drag and drop is really quite painless!
  Thanks to Raghu for the little tutorial. The APIs for Flex 3 are changing between each beta release, so it’s good someone’s staying on top of it and saving the rest of us some pain :)
  The app I’m writing should be [...]

• Australian

  apology

  02.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  At last.
  An apology. You could - and I would - argue that the theft of the Stolen Generations is only a small part of the indignities, abuse and discrimination against the indigenous people of this country; the stolen continent itself is the elephant in the room.
  But it would be churlish not to give credit to [...]

• AIR

  air apps

  02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Been checking out some AIR apps recently … I had a go at the Ebay desktop client but wasn’t terribly impressed. It has some improvements over the website, but the controls feel awkward, and the flow is not always obvious.
  Snitter is an AIR app for the Twitter service that lets you view recent tweets, and [...]

• Web

  wampserver is too easy!

  02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just installed WampServer2. What a great system!
  I just enabled mod_rewrite with a menu. Fantastic.
  Of course there are lots of more fiddly things you still need to edit the configuration for … but I’m well impressed with the mod_* menu, even if it is basically just a glorified batch job (modify httpd.conf, startup) with a [...]

• Australian, British

  rowan williams vs. the media

  02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Letter responding to today’s Sydney Morning Herald that they are unlikely to print:
  I read the editorial in today’s Herald with exasperation. The “age-old division of church and state” referred to is sheer nonsense. The Queen is the head of the Church of England. The secular nature of the UK is enforced by the agnosticism of [...]

• Wordpress

  plogger badge widget online

  02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My Plogger Badge Widget (for Wordpress) has now found a home in the Wordpress plugins directory.

• Flex

  intellij + flex

  02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Version 7.0.3 of the IntelliJ IDE will have Flex support!
  Gosh. IntelliJ is head and shoulders above Eclipse, the platform Flex Builder is based on. I’ll definitely be checking it out. This will probably be scary stuff for Adobe. One consolation is that there’s no visual editor with IntelliJ.

• Flash

  automatically declare foot shot?

  02.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Up till now I’ve been using ActionScript 3 in a Flex context. At my new work I am using it with Flash CS3. I came across a “feature” that confirms my suspicions of Adobe’s marketing strategy for its development platform: Flex Builder for developers, Flash CS3 for morons and/or masochists: CS3 is actually a downgrade.
  The [...]

• International

  the politics of fuel

  02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yuval Rotem, Israeli ambassador to Australia, writes in his op-ed piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
  It is imperative to remember that the Israeli Government aids those Gazans who are suffering under Hamas, even though Hamas appears to be doing everything in its power to prevent the passage.
  Is this naive, or just disingenous? Israeli Prime Minister [...]

• Flex, Ruby

  sprouts - son of asproject

  02.03.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Sprouts project, an incarnation of the earlier ASProject (see example usage video) looks very interesting - an “open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool” which uses Ruby’s Gems architecture to fetch and install libraries.
  Its purpose is to automate the tedious tasks involved in setting up new projects, building test suites, even installing essentials like [...]

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