Archive for February, 2007
Today was the first day of a 5 day course on flex, led by the illustrious Robin Hilliard. It’s already shaping up to be a great course – naturally a lot of today was intro stuff but we still got into the event management, bubbling events and data binding, all of which are very Related posts:Flex 5 day course Flex Data Services on OSX Flex goes open source! [ READ MORE ]
A brief escape – kicking the football around with my son, B (real football, you know – with a round ball) having lots of fun I managed to slip over in some dry dirt. Which was fine. But getting back up I overbalanced, being the smooth, suave individual that I am, and managed No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
I have often wanted to do similar sites myself but never gotten around to it. Here’s a site that will be enjoyed by all those of you who collect monitor toys and random office junk Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Excellent pair of spoof videos. The second one in particular is brilliant, shows someone using osx functionality synced to the audio of the windows vista demo videos - update – Yes, it would help if I attached the link for the videos wouldn’t it… Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Having gotten cfmx / jrun happily running on my Macbook Pro I needed to get Flex data services next. I scrounged around and found a couple of examples on the web then mucked about with it myself – here’s what I ended up doing (assumes you have jrun installed): 1. Browse to jrun admin server Related posts:Google’s internal data format open sourced Flex 5 day Course – Day 1 Flex 5 day course [ READ MORE ]
I got cf running locally on my intel macbook pro today using this fantastic guide I’ve up to now been running everything on virtual machines, but I thought it might be useful to have a quick and easy local install for the sake of the courses and conferences I’m going to attend in the next couple Related posts:Coldfusion returntype behaviour in flex [ READ MORE ]
I’ve found myself in the very lucky position of having a project that is going to require me to research and work with a number of things I’ve been wanting to spend more time on for ages, so I’ve decided to get back to the technical blogging. Over the next little while, I’ll be exploring Flex, No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
As you can see I’ve changed the blog design again – I got this one from open source web design, a fantastic web site giving loads of templates for web layout which are totally free. This one I’ve modified slightly is called “Deliciously Blue” by Super J Man. Nice and clean, and will No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
I’ve been listening to a few of these lately and am finding them very valuable – particularly the coldfusion weekly and Hal Helms and Jeff Peters’ “Out Loud”. They great to have on the ipod for those times when I’m waiting around for something, and I’m starting to listen to them while I’m walking No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
It seems I’m going to have to give up the online gaming again. I tried it for a while, and even though I wasn’t getting heavily involved with online politics and guilds etc, I’m still wasting too much time on the game. It’s a great escape, and it’s just too easy to sink Related posts:World Away Day Hello World [ READ MORE ]