When my wife and I decided to have a baby we started planning for how we would take care of the baby after she was born. I started training and doing consulting in addition to my day job so that we could afford to have my wife stay home with the baby. This [...]
Unhappy with the current standards moving data between the flash client and the application server, Aral Has created a new format called SWX.
Currently SWX is only supported between flash and PHP but he hopes through community involvement for that to grow. Its also only suppored by the Flash player 7-8 plugin, and doesnt support [...]
Apollo is a new platform independent runtime environment that allows us to use tools we already use everyday (html, js, flash, pdf) to build desktop applications. Think of it as Java without the hell that is java. Write your application using tools that are familiar and then delpoy that to users with all [...]
I am trying to help my little site get a bit more visibility. I started this quest a while back, but as I wasnt posting much I let it slide. I checked technorati today and they seemed to think I had not updated my site in a few months. While the posting prior [...]
I absolutely believe that one of the reasons that he web has been so successful is the ability for users to see how people do things. Not because they original developers chose to share but because, we could see the source regardless. I mean its just text after all, right?
Unfortunately for us the [...]
I was working on a form the other day in one of my flex applications. The flex framework provides several different built in controls for doing validation. NumberValidator, StringValidator, ZipCodeValidator all of these classes extend the base Validator class. We create one instance of a validator class for each of the fields [...]
Blogging is one of those things you either get, or you dont. My wife’s mom doesn’t get it. She sees us putting our family lives on display for the whole world and she worries about stalkers and people trying to hurt us. And although that is certainly a possibility (see Kathy Sierra [...]
In part one of this little blogging rampage I am on I talked about how happy I am that the GUI (Aqua) and the underlying OS (BSD – Unix) are separate. Today that is more true than ever.
As all computers do my computer has been acting a little weird. But I really didnt [...]
Or so I was told. Here I was this morning just working away, when I got an IM from non-other than Ryan Stewart the infamous ZDNet Blogger himself. He says to me “hey man, I think somebody hacked your site” I start to panic and immediately run and load up my site. [...]
I am one of those crazy people who really like the OS X interface. I like it just the way it is. With the exception of changing my background and where my dock go I leave it pretty much as is.
My friend Sean just got a new Mac Book Pro and he likes [...]
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