Aussie Telcos do it again
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Sigh. Once again the telco’s in Australia have utterly screwed the pooch. Check out this summary of just how messed up it it.
I was going to order one of these tomorrow – now I’ll wait.
Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
In the last 7 years, my coffee machine as it turns out has made 9,869 coffees. That’s… a lot of coffee. Bought in September 2000 it’s one of my favourite purchases, and even though I’m drinking more tea than coffee lately it’s still awesome to have a machine that makes great coffee from just one single button push, including fresh grinding 
Google’s internal data format open sourced
It’s called Protocol Buffers and apparently is what Google developed and use to handle the data within their enormous systems. Will be interesting for hardcore geeks, and might also be handy if implemented for remoting or webservices somehow. If anyone’s playing with this, let me know.
Flash search engine crawlable
Check it out here in the Adobe press release: Adobe makes Flash crawlab;e
This is a great step, and really encouraging to see. Between this and the work being done with google analytics etc flash is becoming more and more viable for content delivery on the web.
One thing that irritates me though is the uninformed attitude about flash. I used to be in complete agreeance that flash should be removed from the web – when it was nothing more than annoying intros to websites when we were all on dialup. With the work that’s happened in the last couple of years flash is an amazing platform that is now being tailored to do the things actionscript geniuses were finding hacks for years ago – and it’s a wonderful platform for application development. Read the comments at slashdot on this story though and it gets a little frustrating. Yes there are still muppets building useless things in flash and not using it well but how is that different from any other technology? I’m of the belief that flash has made serious inroads in the developer’s mind, I’m just looking forward to when the public start seeing actual flash applications and judicious use of flash in websites as a good thing.
… beats the hell out of javascript.
Scotch talk slides
My apologies to those who were waiting for this – here are the slides from my talk at scotch this year. I’ve exported them to a pdf to avoid issues between keynote / powerpoint etc.
I hope they’re of some use – as always feel free to give me a yell with any questions if you have them.
Additionally those who asked for a copy of my coding standards document will be receiving it tonight or tomorrow.
** udpate ** something weird was happening with the download file, I’ve switched it to just the pdf now.