Friday, April 18th, 2008
This morning, I checked out the new Flickr Code site. As a part of this site was a blog post on how one of the developers at Yahoo redeveloped the Flickr Uploader (actually I think he is still redeveloping). His platform of choice to provide a consistent cross-platform application was XULRunner. He [...]
AIR |
Friday, April 18th, 2008
The SQLite database inside of AIR provides a great deal of functionality that can be used to create a great many different types of applications. In this article, I have placed links to the tutorials I have been writing over at InsideRIA.com on how to use this functionality (I am about halfway through this [...]
AIR |
Friday, April 18th, 2008
I recently had the opportunity to develop a small tutorial application that ran queries on a good sized dataset (not huge - but 10,000 rows). I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to test AIR’s SQLite database functionality, and I must say that I was pleased. The application (which was a tutorial on strongly [...]
AIR |
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Amazon just officially announced that they are indeed developing persistent storage for EC2.
This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be formatted and configured based on [...]
Amazon Webservices |
Monday, April 7th, 2008
So, I waited out my old Verizon contract, and went to AT&T mainly for the iPhone. I was really excited, because I have been a big fan of the user experience offered by the iPhone. However, there was one user experience aspect that I failed to consider - AT&T’s network. My user [...]
Uncategorized |
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Yes, it appears that my Wordpress install was hacked just prior to my upgrade to Wordpress 2.5. Just as before, it wasn’t anything major, but I got a whole host of hidden links added to the end of one of my posts. This was easily fixed. However, because this went for a [...]
Wordpress |
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I started blogging last year in April. Over the last year I hope that this blog has proved helpful to many of you. I have been amazed at how the readership has grown. The Cairngorm series posts have been the most popular by far over the last year. Here a few [...]
Uncategorized |
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Many people have asked that I make the Cairngorm Series downloadable (the video portions). Since I have gotten a handful of requests this week - I determined to go ahead and post the links:
UPDATE: Many people didn’t realize that there are written tutorials and exercise files that go along with each tutorial. You [...]
Cairngorm, Flex |
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Browser API that has been covered in AIR Tip 5 and AIR Tip 6 allows you not only to launch an AIR application from the browser, but also from another AIR application.
This tutorial is current for AIR 1.0
AIR |