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I cannot possibly be the only Flex consultant in Sweden

Theo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:11:33 +0000

…but according to the list at Flex.org I am: I even had to ask to get Sweden as an option in the filter. Seriously, I can’t be the only Flex consultant in Sweden. Where are you guys?

Side-stepping ES4

Theo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:58:31 +0000

The news is that the proposed ECMAScript 4 (ES4) that created such a stir in the ActionScript community half a year ago is no more. Instead the ECMAScript working groups is going to pursue an update to version 3. I say good riddance to ES 4, it had a lot of interesting stuff in it [...]

Roll your own OpenID, the easy way

Theo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:03:26 +0000

I think that OpenID is a great idea, but there are just too many providers to choose from. Without even actively signing up for one, I’ve got at least six OpenID’s already: one from Wordpress, another from Technorati, and from Blogger, Yahoo!, Flickr and AOL. Either one would do fine, but one thing bugs me: [...]

A call to arms against Adobe’s lack of respect for my filesystem

Theo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:36:42 +0000

Adobe has a blatant lack of respect for my filesystem. The various applications that I currently have installed scatter files everywhere, without asking me and with total disregard of Apple’s documentation. Read on for a list of the offences. I’ve been bashing Adobe quite a lot in my last few posts, and even though they deserve [...]

Why Google isn’t indexing dynamic content (yet)

Theo — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:01:17 +0000

In an interview with Lee Brimelow, the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player, Justin Everett-Church clears up some of the questions surrounding Adobe and Google’s new SWF indexing capabilities: Flash Player does not actually implement the network API, we actually hand that off to our host, so in the case of a browser the browser will [...]

MXMLC WTF (8): Keys can be of any type as long as it’s String

Theo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:39:31 +0000

Have you ever tried looping over all the keys in a Dictionary? The whole point of the Dictionary class is that you can have objects of any type as keys, unfortunately someone forgot to tell the ActionScript compiler that: var dict : Dictionary = ...; for ( var k : MySpecialType in dict ) { trace(k, [...]

The Red Herring revisited

Theo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:49:04 +0000

Google has been indexing SWF:s using their new techniques for a couple of weeks now, and it should be possible to see what it really means. I was very critical in my last post on the subject, and some of the things I have been proven wrong about, but it seems that so far I [...]

The pain of installing Adobe software

Theo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:47:16 +0000

Today I needed to install Adobe Acrobat, which I’ve so far avoided to install because of its bloated size, slowness and general suckiness. Unfortunately, I really needed it. After searching my drawers for the CS3 install DVD, I pushed it into my computer and though that I’d managed the hard part. Now it should just [...]

Switch off SwitchBoard

Theo — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:10:12 +0000

When Adobe SwitchBoard was announced the other week I was intrigued. It sounded like something I had been wishing for for a while: a better way to create user interfaces that leveraged the capabilities of the Creative Suite applications, something that the current scripting environment doesn’t do very well. I installed it and read the [...]

The lazy HTML pirates are the easiest to catch

Theo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:59 +0000

A tip to all lazy HTML pirates out there: if you’re going to nick the HTML off a website, remove the Google Analytics tracking code before uploading it to your own servers. I found a HTML pirate when I was looking through a client’s web site statistics in Google Analytics the other day. There were [...]