Archive for December, 2008

Getting the Flex Profiler to Work

I’ve just wasted quite a few hours getting the Flex Profiler to work, and maybe I can share my dearly earned knowledge on the subject. So first, a few words on how the profiler works: The profiler is a part of the Flex Builder IDE, that listens for messages from the profiler agent. The profiler […]

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On Technical Blogging, Once more with Feeling

In my previous post on technical blogging I discussed one perverse side effect of search engines in technical blogging. Here’s another, that was touched upon but that deserves a post of its own: Search Engine Optimization. This is a more general problem that every content creator on the web was to deal with. I have […]

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The more hardcore web geeks among us often dismiss Flash as “proprietary crap”, and sometimes I have to agree with them. We’re running into a bug that has been known for years by the Flash team, who claim it’s not their fault: Sometimes keyboard input in Flash text fields just doesn’t work properly. My colleague […]

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Sun Releases JavaFX. So What?

JavaFX is Sun’s new  competitor for Flash. In the same way as Flash, it’s a plugin for your browser that lets you  do things that you couldn’t do with plain old HTML. So do we care? Silverlight, the equivalent offering from Microsoft, has yet to make any serious inroads, and it’s already been around a […]

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Zombies are Cool

And now for something completely different. This morning when I was coming out of the subway, an ad caught my eye. It was for some video game, and the way it was sold went something like this: bring yer mates, we’ve got lots of zombies and you can kill them all together. So this got […]

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