WASHINGTON – A nationwide left turn ban was drafted by an overwhelming majority of 51 to 49 in the Republican controlled senate this evening. It is now at the President’s desk where he is expected to sign it into law.
Like the nationwide law mandating that all French fries be renamed Freedom fries, and the steroids [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, games
Just a quick note on SQLite in AIR and slow writes: using transactions will speed up multiple inserts/updates.
haven’t had a chance to do any performance tuning or testing when using SQLite in AIR. But just today I finished writing some tests for writing some stuff into a SQL db and noticed that the writes were [...]
With the recent news about Google possibly using Adobe’s Search SDK to index text in swfs I thought I’d post a quick howto for downloading the sdk and testing out your swfs to see what they look like to the link extractor.
First, download the SDK:
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/
Scroll down to where it says “SEARCH ENGINE SDK”
Click on “Begin [...]
Categories: flex
A new site dedicated to everything RIA by O’Reilly, with posts from people like Rich Tretola of EverythingFlex.com, Andre Charland from Nitobi, Andre Trice from Cynergy Systems, and many others.
http://www.insideria.com/
There’s already some good leads there like a post about Google possibly using Adobe’s Search SDK to index swfs.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/01/google_swf_sdk.cfm
Categories: flex, technology
Over the holiday break I took 2 days to try my hand at writing a moderately complex, non-annoying, Facebook app. Facebook Answers is the result of this work. It’s a place where you can ask a question and let the community answer. People can vote other people’s up or down, [...]
Categories: python, technology
If you like falafel with a dash of spiciness and a touch of cool cucumber all wrapped up in a crispy, smoky tortilla and you happen to be in the Palo Alto area then drop by Mediterranean Wraps (
425 S California Ave, Palo Alto, CA). Man, that stuff is good! My wife [...]
Categories: food