Now that Flex 4 is out: Here's a good overview of the new Spark component architecture. http://tinyurl.com/5c8ezp # I like that instead of a container defining layout (like VBox, HBox) you assign a layout object to any container. #flex4 # Why is the Mac so much slower browsing SMB shares than Windows? It's just a [...]
Very cool news this morning for Flex developers – Flash Builder 4 was released last night. You can get it now. I’m a long time Visual Studio user, and I knew every keyboard shortcut I needed to know to spend my days developing software without touching the mouse. For some reason with all the time [...]
WHS recovery is done. In the end I lost a 1tb hard drive without losing any data. WHS's folder duplication saved the day. # Lawn tractor or garden tractor? Decisions decisions. # Matthew perked up at Jon Stewart's tirade from last night when he got to the picture of Bert. #
Matthew’s 4th birthday party was yesterday, and I think his party went great. We started a little tradition of using a piñata as part of the festivities a couple of years ago, and discovered that the piñatas they sell at party stores aren’t designed to bust open when you’re hitting them with a stick. They [...]
Exhibit A: Akismet has protected your site from 737,580 spam comments already, and there are 2,932 comments in your spam queue right now. Exhibit B: It’s just no fun hosting my own WordPress blog these days.
Jobs says no tethering an iPad to an iPhone? That's a BS move. I'm already paying for wireless data. They expect me to pay twice? # Is Google Reader acting up for anyone else? When reading "All Items" it's including lots of old, already-read items. I keep seeing dupes. # I bought the Mac Heist [...]
I’m not sure if there’s some functionality change that I missed or if it really is broken, but something is really wrong with Google Reader. And it’s been broken for weeks. Here’s the problem: I go to Reader, and click on All Items. It tells me there are 95 items. I scroll through them, or [...]
Watching Olympic Hockey. http://stevex.net/bigtweet/ (Last time I'll mention it, I promise). # @travelmop I was just thinking the #BellTV HD signal looked a little fuzzier than usual. Maybe the stadium is just foggy. in reply to travelmop # Are there as many Bell ads on the Rogers coverage of the Olympics? Seems like every 2nd [...]
I’ve been using Ecto as my blogging tool for some time now, but the current MacHeist bundle included MacJournal so I’m giving it a shot. One feature I really like in any blogging tool is the ability to paste in an image and have it be included without having to save somewhere on disk first. [...]