Just wanted to exclaim to the world (well the handful of people that happen to read this post anyway 😉 that FlashDevelop is freaking unbelievable! After using the Flash CS3 IDE to edit code, FlashDevelop is pure bliss! I did try it a few Beta versions back, but never for an AS2 project that was … Read more
Having just returned recently from a 4 week whirlwind tour of the UK, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Holland and Hong Kong; I lobbed back into ‘lil old Adelaide with the very strong desire to do it all over again. But this time in a slightly less frenetic pace. I’ve searched high and low (ok, so I’ve … Read more
I was just looking at my Google Analytics stats for this blog, and noticed that there are wave like patterns in the visits graph. They coincide with Satuday and Sunday in the US (where most of my traffic comes from). It’s weird to see patterns like this so clearly pronounced in the stats – and … Read more
I can’t put my finger on what it is – but a well used palette of greys just does something for me. Which is why it was love at first sight when I saw the redoable WordPress theme – I had to have her!! Big up to it’s creator Dean Robinson – awesome work mate! … Read more
In an adjunct to my last post on choice (which didn’t exactly set the comment textfield on fire) I’d like to exclaim just how many ways I have to navigate back (and forward) in my browser! 1. standard browser back button 2. right click on page, select back 3. alt + left arrow key 4. … Read more
There’s something that’s been on my mind. It’s something I’ve spent many hours pondering recently. Choice. Specifically, which software to choose. Which path to take. Will going down path A get me there in the end or is path B the right choice for me… Accounting software, IM’s, Calendaring, VNC, and the mother of all … Read more
Without any real appreciation of just how complex it must be to release an operating system (with all the inherent backwards compatibility issues that WILL surface) or to create software that is hard to pirate yet easy for legitimate users to have fair use of – let me simply say that Adobe and Microsoft have … Read more
Did a little comparison today of the AS2 components versus the AS3 components. Here’s what I found: Component AS3 AS2 Button 14Kb 26Kb Checkbox 15Kb 27Kb ColorPicker 19Kb NA ComboBox 35Kb 55Kb DataGrid 41Kb 59Kb Label 14Kb 22Kb List 29Kb 47Kb NumericStepper 18Kb 28Kb ProgressBar 16Kb 26Kb RadioButton 16Kb 29Kb ScrollPane 21Kb 38Kb Slider 17Kb … Read more
I’m a flash developer. Though I’ve always taken the claims that 98% of internet enabled desktops have the Flash plug-in. I’ve seen this marketing babble get run a few times now in regards to Apollo vs. Silverlight and in general when talking about the ubiquity of the Flash family of products (Flash, Flash Lite, Flex … Read more
I’ve been quite interested to see how Apollo handles the rendering of HTML, which got me thinking about what user-agent string it would actually present to a site that it is browsing. So, here ’tis: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 Apollo/1.0.Alpha1 I haven’t seen this mentioned much before, but when visiting sites that detect for … Read more