Toby Tremayne

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Toby — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:28:33 +0000

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Book Giveaway

Toby — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:33:06 +0000

Fantastic book giveaway here http://theundercoverbooklover.blogspot.com/2010/02/birthday-bash-contest-international.html#comments – international entries welcome. Win 10 free novels!

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Free Computer Books

Toby — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:09:56 +0000

If you can make use of any of these books, and are willing to pick up in Melbourne or pay the postage, give me a yell and they’re yours.

PHP Black Book
**TAKEN ** MySQL (3/4 I think)
Active Server Pages 3.0 (Knox)
Core Java 2
**TAKEN ** Programming Rich Clients with Flex
**TAKEN ** The C Programming Language
Flash Remoting (OReilly)
**TAKEN ** Actionscript for Flash MX (OReilly)
Learning Perl (OReilly)
Learning Perl on Win32 (OReilly)
**TAKEN ** UML Distilled
**TAKEN ** Code Complete
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development
**TAKEN ** Oracle 8 PL/SQL Programming
**TAKEN ** Paper Prototyping

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cfObjective(ANZ)

Toby — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:17:35 +0000

It’s been under wraps for a while but we’re finally ready to announce it – the premier enterprise ColdFusion conference – cfObjective() – is coming to Australia! More specifically it will be held in Melbourne on the 11th and 12th of November 2009.

It’s a 2 day event packed to the hilt with advanced level content and fascinating sessions. For anyone who has wanted either a dedicated CF conference or one with more hardcore topics then this is the one. For more details check out the website:

www.cfobjective.com.au

We’re very excited about it and really looking forward to getting it together. if you’re interested in attending or speaking or just have some ideas please join the mailing list on the website, and let us know what you think!

More details to come

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Flash – coming to an iPhone near you

Toby — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:49:22 +0000

Magnificent news today – Adobe and Apple are have actually confirmed they’re working together on getting flash onto the iPhone! I don’t know if I’m behind the times or anything but it’s news to me so I just had to blog about it. Of course we’ve known since last year that at least Adobe was doing some work on it, but now it’s official that Apple is involved in the effort also. This is very exciting for those of us who’ve been harping on about it for a while now. I’ve been doing some work on Objective-C coding for the iPhone and will continue that, but it’s cool to think I might be able to leverage my AS3 skills on it at some point in the not too distant future.

Comments in the various news articles make clear that we’re not going to see a standard flash player release on the device, but more likely something new. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying that the browser plugin doesn’t have enough functionality built into it, so I will be interested to see where they go with this. Obviously getting any kind of flash onto the iphone can only be good for adobe – and I can’t but think it would be good for Apple too. While the App store has been doing well, iphone development doesn’t really seem to be going very far very fast, and I think a lot of that is due to the app store itself and to the nature of coding for the iphone. Opening up the platform to the much larger flash platform community could see some awesome things happening.

Of course this doesn’t mean the device will become open – maybe we’ll still need to deploy flash apps through the app store, who knows. All I care about is that there’s finally some official word that something is at least being attempted! Here’s hoping it is seen through to fruition and that we can all start hacking flash and flex on the iphone

Source:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/31/adobe_apple_working_together_on_flash_for_iphone.html

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blog move

Toby — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

as you can see the blog looks really crappy again. I’ve just moved servers and took the opportunity to upgrade to the current version of blogcfc, so when I get around to it I’ll modify the templates again to make it look pretty

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Aussie Telcos do it again

Toby — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee

Toby — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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

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Google’s internal data format open sourced

Toby — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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Flash search engine crawlable

Toby — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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