Monthly Archives: January 2004

 

January 29, 2004

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Flash Remoting on PocketPC 2003

Seems to work. I’m using the following chain: – Flash MX 2004 targeting FP6 with AS2 – Plain NetServices.as (haven’t tried J Lott’s update yet) – AS2 classes registered to Java types – Deployed to iPAQ 2210 – Requests a service running under Tomcat 5 + OpenAMF 1.0RC5 + ASTranslator 1.5.5 + Hibernate 2.1 – [...]

 

January 28, 2004

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Flash MX 2004: AS2 Classes Require Global Classpath

This one was hard to find, and painful to find out. If you want your AS2 classes to contain references to other AS2 classes that are in a package namespace, then you must add the root of the package namespace to your global classpath in Flash or you will get compile-time errors that cryptically indicate [...]

Upgraded to MT 2.661 for Spam Protection

I just upgraded this blog to MovableType 2.661 in the hopes of defending against comment spambot attacks. So far I’ve mostly gotten only a handful at a time, but it’s clear that there are much larger spam attacks underway against MT sites. The upgrade was pretty painless — just copy over the newer files and [...]

 

January 27, 2004

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The Ecology of Flash Folk

I’m starting to get a sense of the populations that make up the Flash world. As with most technology landscapes, there are a range of groups that make up the whole, some masters and some beginners, some teachers and some fakers. What interests me is finding out what the boundaries say about the price of [...]

 

January 23, 2004

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Hey Linksys, nice Bluetooth!

After all the hassles of the Belkin Bluetooth USB adaptor, I was not expecting an easy time with my replacement — but I was most pleasantly surprised. The Linksys USBBT100 Class 1 device is small, looks like a tiny Linksys unit (blue and black and kind curved-rectangular) and has a little black antenna that rotates [...]

 

January 21, 2004

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Jabra’s Freespeak Bluetooth Headset

I’ve been using the Freespeak Bluetooth headset with my Ericsson T610 cell phone for about a day now and I really like it. The ergonomics are wonderful — I forget to take it off my ear when the call’s done, seriously. The sound quality is pretty good, with a bit of low-level static noise at [...]

Origins of Foo and Bar

Reading through some docs I stopped to wonder for the first time where the ubiquitous identifiers foo and bar come from. Well check out this RFC for a thoroughly enjoyable etymological trip: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html foo

 

January 19, 2004

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Hibernating in winter time

I rewarded myself with some hacking last night after finishing my work, and I am really impressed by Hibernate (www.hibernate.org) an open source object-relational mapping layer in Java that has been getting increasing attention in the community. It’s really superb and I think it is going to finally change the way I work with databases [...]

 

January 16, 2004

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Bye to Belkin’s Bluetooth

After struggling with it for way too long, I gave up and sent back the Belkin USB Bluetooth dongle. When it worked (which wasn’t often) it was great until it would stop working (a few minutes later). Tech support hold times exceeded 20 minutes, and email never got a response. Tech support assistance usually consisted [...]

 

January 16, 2004

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Reactions to Office 2003

After working with Office Pro 2003 for a few weeks now, I have to admit that I like it a lot more than I’d expected. In fact, there are a number of nice qualities to it that significantly improve the overall user experience and put some distance between it and the alternatives I’ve tried (including [...]

 

January 10, 2004

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MountainCreek

I spent a few hours snowboarding at MountainCreek yesterday, despite temperatures below 10 degrees and a complete lack of natural snow in this part of the world. No lift lines and a few days of snowmaking made for a totally workable (East Coast) experience, despite the fact that from getting on the lift to being [...]

 

January 9, 2004

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Flash OOP Solution

After posting my frustration with unexplained ActionScript2 class errors, I got a great note from Cameron Childress that seems to identify the culprit as differing timestamps across network volumes.