Monthly Archives: January 2004

 

January 9, 2004

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Bluetooth Headset

I got handed a Bluetooth headset yesterday by someone who couldn’t get it to work with their Nokia phone. I spent about 10 minutes and got it going with my Ericsson T610 although the biggest problem was deciphering the poorly written manual. No more wires…I like it.

 

January 7, 2004

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A Period of Coding Stability

For the past 10 years or so, my sense of the software development landscape (particularly as related to Internet technologies) is that it’s been evolving so rapidly that the energy of developers has been consumed with learning how to work with the new languages and platforms without respite. What I’ve been watching for is a [...]

 

January 3, 2004

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Quick Roundup: XML Document and Schema Editors

It seems like about once a year I do a quick survey of the state of readily-available XML document editors, hoping to find the tool I’ve been wanting for the past few years. My survey usually covers a few dozen products and projects that are either free or low-cost (< $100, typically). There are some [...]

 

January 1, 2004

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MX 2004 OOP = RAW

As I delve further into Flash for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) I’m getting the feeling that the OOP support introduced with MX 2004 isn’t quite ready for prime time yet. And that presents a difficult decision between going back to the ActionScript 1.0 object syntax which is well-documented at this point but not nearly as [...]