Flex == Gumbo == Flash Builder
Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however. There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is […]
geek tech: the sixth sense
Was watching this insane video from TED where Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Lab show how one can become a gargoyle from Neal Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’: wearable tech that is the aware of the user’s environment - for instance projecting amazon’s rating of a book one is thinking of purchasing, […]
Bug Quash!
According to dictionary.com, ‘quash’ is:
–verb (used with object)
1. to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
2. to make void, annul, or set aside (a law, indictment, decision, etc.).
Origin:
1300–50; ME quashen to smash, break, overcome, suppress < OF quasser, in part < L quass?re to shake (freq. of quatere to shake; cf. concussion ); […]
The End of Civilization
iFart and Pull My Finger: a lawsuit that really stinks.
Un-Christian Bale
There’s a little audio clip of Christian Bale losing it on the set of Terminator 4 that started floating around on the internet yesterday, this link courtesy of Tyler Durden…
What’s sweet is that only 12 hours later, DJ RevoLucian has already set it to music so that you can your groove on while CB goes […]
Rewriting bad code costs more than just time
It’s not just about having the best programmers with the best Ruby-fu.
Blast from the Past: Warhol and Spielberg
Guess this was the beginnings of Poltergeist…. though I think it would be scary enough if Andy Warhol came a’knockin’ on my hotel door.
Fun with Flex: CSS Weirdness
I’m a huge admirer of Flex, and specifically for it’s CSS integration (you can see some fantastic examples of which at scalenine, or watch my interview with Juan Sanchez at last year’s AdobeMax) — but every so often I come across something that I don’t know is my misunderstanding of how CSS works, or just […]
Installing Mysql Gem on Mac OSX 10.5
I’m playing with Mephisto tonight and I am making the trek deeper into Rails 2.2.2. For those of you who have been living in the land of 2.0.2 and 2.1, you probably haven’t run into the installation of the MySQL gem.
