Archive for March, 2007

My First Flex App

Mar. 16, 2007 3 Comments Posted under: ActionScript, Development, Flex

Today saw the launch of my first Flex app and in fact my first every true commercial application. The app is a statistics viewer for Ceros clients so that they can see how may people have viewed their CDEs (Ceros Digital Editions). It took about 3000 lines of code (MXML and ActionScript 3) and a [...]

Recently I have had a problem with my Mac mini and it’s video card outputting to my HD TV. My last attempt at solving the problem was to, in true Aliens style, format the bastard with a fresh install of OS X. Alas, as inevitable as Alien 3, it failed to work and the bastard [...]

Can you just….

Mar. 14, 2007 No Comments Posted under: Development

At work we have a running joke about people total lack of understanding of how much skill and work is involved in development. One of my clients recently asked in doing a few updates of email addresses and links on the site if I could just… Lastly (sorry) is there any way we can link [...]

I was having a look on face book today and noticed the I could poke people, not only that but I could poke my mate’s girlfriend…. Not sure it would be such a good idea, although at least it said it would inform her that I poked her when she next got back online…. how [...]

Recently a number of my friends have started joining social networking sites, mainly myspace, as a way of wasting time at work I guess. Really there is no point in these sites other than meeting up with old acquaintances, who if you really liked you would have stayed in contact with anyway and seems only [...]