I haven’t been updating, but I actually have been busy with a variety of programming tasks. Here’s a list of my thoughts at the moment: I’ve been doing a considerable amount of work with web video lately. That means I’ve gotten intimate with the various players, encoding options, and media storage solutions. And here’s what [...]
Also tagged cloud computing, gems, hosting, ipp, railsThe problem with embedding flash/flex components in web pages is that you must specify the viewport of the ‘movie’ and it’s tough to change it. That’s fine for flash movies, as they’re mostly movies. But Flex apps may need to change their size depending on what type of workflows they implement. I figured it would [...]
Also tagged flex 3I’ve recently subscribed to Zed Shaw’s twitter feed and it’s been very illuminating. Just yesterday he posted a new [blog|article|rant] at his site about why he (A/L)GPL’s his code after his experience with Mongrel. Personally, I appreciate his stance, which (from the linked post) boils down to: Open source to open source, corporation to corporation. [...]
Also tagged opinions, slashdothateThe excitement of exploring an interesting new code base is diminished tremendously when you import the code and upon initial compile get one critical compile error and 120 warnings due to bad style. Do I even want to go any further? C’mon man, is it so hard to actually use the language syntax to write [...]
Also tagged air, flex 3It don’t work. Believe me, I’ve tried to get past coder’s block by wrintg to-do lists, notes, diagrams, and what-not but it never prompts me into a spate of useful activity. The only thing that gets me past a block is to sit down and write code until I’m productive again. If I’m stuck on [...]
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