While I tell everyone I live in Brantford, technically I don’t. I live just outside the city, in Brant County, so I don’t get to vote for a mayor in Brantford. But one comment by one particular candidate caught my attention recently. It was Mark Littell, and the comment was this one: Calling on city […]
Google still has the ability to surprise me even given my high expectations of them. http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/09/google-automated-cars/ # Hot water heater died today. Called for service and it was fixed in 2 hours (on a holiday weekend). Good service, Reliance Home Comfort. # I'm on a horse. Cow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM # When I get a new follower […]
“Best practices” always tell us to use getters and setters instead of exposing properties directly on a class. This is true for just about every language where it makes sense, but I want to look at two particular cases, Java and ActionScript. How often have you seen classes that do this? [cc] class Employee { […]
Killer #adobemax session: accessing data services from HTML5 / JavaScript, native Android, iOS, Java and .NET http://tinyurl.com/36fbffx # #netflixca might not have the movie you are looking for but they will have movies you want to watch. # @travelmop I'm really liking my cloud-based battery charger. I don't have any batteries here, but wherever they […]
Now that I’m a new Netflix fan (since they just opened the service up in Canada) I went looking for a way to be notified of interesting new movies added. I found an RSS feed. Cool. Here’s the Canadian one: http://www.netflix.ca/NewWatchInstantlyRSS Finally, MST3K in Canada!
Now that Flash is again welcome on iOS devices, and new tablets and phones are showing up with Flash runtime support (and AIR support), app developers have a real choice when it comes to app development technologies. Let’s say you’ve got an idea for a killer app and you want to build it. Do you […]
Took back the Snowball and ordered a Yeti. http://www.bluemic.com/yeti/ # Illustrator HTML5 pack now available – http://bit.ly/bNxTEO # http://hotwire.ca works for good hotel rates. # Who woulda figured an image file format would get its own film festival. #tiff #
One year ago today I moved from Ottawa to Brantford, switching from working in the office to working from home full-time. I’d always wanted to work from home, but I’d never asked an employer if I could. At Adobe, and at previous jobs, my employers were okay with employees working from home one or two […]
The spammers are paying humans to spam instead of having bots do it. This means the spam is time-consuming to detect as spam, because it isn’t obviously spam. And it almost always gets past the spam filters. This is typical: The comment is perfectly reasonable, almost useful, and posted to an article where it’s relevant. […]
I’m playing through BioShock 2 on the PC. This is one of the first PC games I’ve played in a while – I’ve mostly been playing on the Xbox 360 the last few years. I’ve been enjoying the game, but I’ve reached a point where it just suddenly stopped being fun. The whole game is […]