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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
"A web page is really much more sophisticated than it looks." -Charles on the SproutCore Blog
I think the word he was looking for in "convoluted". "Sophisticated" seems a bit of a euphemism to me.
But, it's a very interesting article!
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
As I was trying to re-install Eclipse/JBoss/MySQL, which is a multi-stepped laborious process, I stumbled into an annoying error that perhaps to me longer to remedy than it should have.
when running server w/ EJBs installed, I encountered the following error:
<pre>10:21:38,524 ERROR [URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing:
--- MBeans waiting for other MBeans ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
"Firstly download our specially created "Dr. Dobb's Challenge' games for either Windows and Windows Mobile." - Dobbs Challenge
The rare either/and sentence construction, combined with the "firstly download" and the atrocious add for Visual Studio on the page, and I think I just may unsubscribe from the Dr. Dobb's RSS ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I'm fairly new to ActionScript (3.0) and if I haven't iterated over the properties of an object in a while, I forget how it.
It, of course, is not in the object APIs - which it totally where you'd expect it to be. Originally there was a "for each" loop, ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
MacWorld's article on GoogleMac failed when it included the following:
A Google spokesperson responded to questions about the reason for the compatibility issues with Safari and how Google plans on addressing them by noting the company’s commitment to making its applications available across different platforms. “We want to provide great products ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
"You can also call the setRemoteCredentials() method for Remoting Service destinations that are managed by an external service that requires user name and password authentication, such as a ColdFusion Component (CFC)." - Passing credentials from client-side components, livedocs.adobe.com
I'm not using ColdFusion Components, but an EJB application server. There should ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I've always disparaged JavaScript (in a bigoted way), and have only learned, and come to use quite often, ActionScript in the past six months. Both are now roughly based on ECMAScript.
I've always preferred "real" languages to kludgey script languages. (What is a language? That'll have to wait ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I always find myself wanting to edit technical blogs. Not usually for the technical content, usually for the horrible writing. I re-edit my writing all the time, and I struggle with blogging layout to support technical (and elsewhere, non-technical) content. I know it's hard. But it ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Looks to me like a PrintDataGrid / VBox (or likely any parent) sizing negotiation bug that happens when variableRowHeight="true". [15305]
Adobe seems to be responsive on it, so far. Many of the bugs in their system are labeled as "deferred" - just hope this one doesn't end there.
Problem is, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
You should always be the squeeky wheel!
I emailed a contact I had in the Adobe documents group (thanks, Matt!) and found out that Adobe was aware of their Dead Docs problem.
But more importantly they provided a link to a downloadable API documents for the Flex/ActionScript 3.0 collection - I'd much ...
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