SteveX Compiled

Brantford Chili Cookoff today in Harmony Square. #
Canada's Olympic curling team is incredible! Good job guys! #
Next up, Hockey! #
I updated http://stevex.net/bigtweet for keywords Olympic and Hockey. Good way to follow game meta chatter on a big screen. #
Updated http://stevex.net/bigtweet so there's less lag between when a tweet is tweeted and when you [...]

Bell TV Remote PVR app is available in the App Store now. http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/bell-tv-remote-pvr/id351782093?mt=8 #
At Union Station in Toronto, waiting to hop a train to Ottawa. #
Plug at my seat, nobody sitting next to me, internet through tethered iPhone. Not a bad way to travel. #
There's something bizarre about browsing my home computer via [...]

Learning PureMVC. Sometimes all this layering just seems like paperwork. But the app I'm starting is big enough I know I'll need it. #
Hmm, the Apple store is down. All I get when I go there are huge iPad ads. New hardware today? #
I'm learning a lot about draft inducers, pressure [...]

I’ve been looking at a number of Flex frameworks lately, and common patterns used in Flex application development. One thing that surprises me is how often I’ve been encountering singletons.
The Singleton pattern allows a class to enforce that there is only ever one instance of the class, and usually gives you an easy way [...]

I hooked my Google Reader shared items up to Twitter. Let's see how that goes. #
You know Mafia Wars (a Facebook) game is big when the 2nd Google hit for "delivery truck" is a Mafia Wars related link. #
Build Failed makes me sad. Build Fixed makes me happy. #
On Removing Features: Lukas Mathis: [...]

I ran into a problem a few days ago with a Flex component that I was building not showing up in Flash Builder when built using our command-line build, but showing up fine when built by the IDE (Flex Builder).
It took me a bit of searching to figure out what the problem was, which means [...]

I blogged a while back about soft water, and the slimy feeling that you get from apparently not being able to rinse off soap with soft water.
Let me step back a bit and give you the whole story (and a solution).
A few months ago, we moved into a house just outside the city, [...]