Monthly Archives: June 2008

WIP: I Tweet therefore I Am 3

Here’s a Work In Progress.
I’ve had lots of free time lately, so I’ve started sketching stuff and came up with this:

I may start painting it later today.
Update: Below is a quick experiment with simple volumes. nothing drastic:

Update: 06/10/08

Update: 08/03/2008

Needs some work on the arm on the left (picture left).
Started adding sketches of the [...]

Unbelievable packaging waste from Babies R’ Us 3

This is unbelievable.  I just got a UPS package from Babies R’ Us because we’re about to have a baby (like, today or tomorrow!)  We didn’t know what was in it because we’ve been getting gifts from our friends and family from our registry.
The box is maybe 2 feet by 3 feet by 6 inches.

Then [...]

Useful Patterns for BlazeDS 1

While running the Los Angeles Flex Users Group I got a lot of questions from people about how BlazeDS could fit into their existing infrastructure.
Typically, they will have an application container, such as JBoss, or maybe just a servlet container, like Tomcat, and a SQL backend. Usually MySQL or PostgresSQL. JSPs are [...]

BlazeDS, Spring, and Acegi Security – Part 3 4

Update: The “start”-method-not-getting-called bug is now a filed in the adobe bug tracker: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-190
This post is another baby step in getting acegi/spring security and blazeds to work together. The whole purpose of these exercises is to for acegi to handle authentication/authorization and destination security. Even bypassing container security.
In the last part I talked [...]