How is it, in 2009, that there are still AS2 sites being built? Maintained, I will grudgingly allow, but why are there still sites being built in this palaeolithic technology? Steam-punk chic? It’s beyond me …
(And more importantly, how did I end up agreeing to work on one of these damned projects?)
For obscure and uninteresting reasons, I’ve found myself working on a Windows machine these last couple of days doing Flash development. Neither of these things (Flash, Windows) is a good thing, but needs must. The editor in the Flash IDE being a freshly dumped and steaming elephant turd (I give up all for it, given [...]
I see Google have got around to activating Gears for GMail: this means, after some background synchronising, you can use search through your email without being connected to the web. This is great news, because GMail is one of those few web apps that are actually better than their desktop counterparts (although Thunderbird was alright [...]
TPG continue to fail in a big way.
The service they are providing is awful. Packet loss, dropouts – totally useless when the main point of the connection is for developing web apps. Streaming video and downloads also stall, every time.
First I called, and got a message saying to call back later because the [...]
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