So I’m thinking about alternatives. IntelliJ offers Flex development support. It would be nice to say goodbye to the Eclipse platform. Has anyone out there used IntelliJ for Flex dev, and if so, can you comment on your experiences? Ta.

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I’ve seen a lot of similar problems on forums around the web.

I thought one of Snow Leopard’s selling points was that it was faster to boot up than previous versions of OS X. And one of the Mac’s selling points was that it did not screw you around with the ‘Blue Screen Of Death’. This isn’t death exactly … more the Azure Screen Of Coma.

If Adobe hadn’t abandoned development of FB/Linux (vote against this folly), I would wipe OS X off my Macbook and run Ubuntu.

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Lo and behold, though, someone (independently) had very similar thoughts and acted on them. Conrad Winchester and a couple other folks have begun work on ASAXB, which looks like a very promising project. I am keen to get an AS3 implementation of xjc happening to complement the marshalling / unmarshalling code that’s already been written. Once we’ve got the next round of features build at makebook, I will have a little more time to work on it.

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Introducing Makebook: a web app that lets you create books and manage a library of stories, recipes, poems, whatever … I’ve been developing the Flex front end for about 7-8 months now, and it’s been an interesting ride. It’s requires Flash 10 — it’s on the bleeding edge in some respects. I have the sleep deprivation to prove it :)

Here’s a screenshot of the editor:

Sign up and have a go. Let me know what you think.

I would love to talk about the set of features that we’re working on next, but that would spoil the surprise now wouldn’t it :)

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What a staggering piece of stupidity. Locking an academic email facility in to a commercial third party is a wrong move in the first place. Given that they made this bad decision, why use Outlook Web Access and not a decent one like GMail?

Best option would have been to install some decent open source system like Zimbra or AtMail …

No doubt it made sense on some managerese-encoded list of strategic gibberish, but it’s a poor choice both technically and ethically.

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The reaction of liberals like Michael Tomasky, equivocating over an action (suppression of the evidence) that is so transparently wrong, is shocking. He says:

I don’t know what’s the right thing to do here. Yes, I’m prepared for many of you to attack my moral cowardice, as you did during the torture posts from a couple weeks back. But imagine you’re the president of the United States and you’re responsible for the safety of soldiers in wars you didn’t even start, and imagine that the release of these photos could so enrage people that it would dramatically endanger those soldiers. And remember: the people, or at least some people, who committed and oversaw these atrocities have already been convicted of crimes and/or punished in the military context.

It’s not moral cowardice. Moral cowardice would be to say nothing. To provide excuses, to give cover or to extenuate the attempted cover-up, is to be implicated in it. Why should anyone “imagine if” they are the president? Are there not people with whom it is more important to empathise, here, such as the victims of the atrocities?

But to follow Tomasky’s twisted logic for a moment, and imagine oneself as the president, the answer is very simple: get the fucking soldiers out of Iraq now, not a phased withdrawal that will remove some troops by 2011 and keep tens of thousands there for as long as the US deems necessary. (What, exactly, is the difference between Obama’s actual policy and McCain’s “100 years” quote that his campaign got so much mileage out of mocking?) OK Tomasky – is that a “genuine attempt to deal with this conundrum”?

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new VectorCollection<MyClass>;

Not sure if this is possible though …

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