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Best electronics unboxing video EVER.

I’m a gadget junkie. I admit it openly. I also admit that I have looked at tons of unboxing photos and videos online when some new shiny plaything hits the shelves. This one, however, tops them all. The folks at Samsung have hired themselves some supernatural packaging designers. I do suspect, however, [...]ShareThis (translate)

R.I.P Leroi Moore

1961 - 2008 You`ll not be forgotten! (translate)

Google Groups to Google App Engine: you seem a little shifty to me!

It seems that Google Groups has some seriously strict spam filters in place as they're currently blocking urlfetch requests for RSS feeds from Google App Engine applications. This morning, I started what I hoped would be a quick Flash widget to display the latest RSS headlines from our new Singularity Local Conference Hubs Google Group on [...] (translate)

Pre-WDS Port80 in Sydney: the tradition continues

Putting on a Port80 get-together the night before Web Directions South in Sydney has become somewhat of a tradition for the Perth Port80 regulars. 2008 is no exception – this time we’re congregating at the Harlequin Inn, which Simon Wright (pictured above, to the extreme right, at a Perth Port80 meeting a few years [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pre-WDS Port80 in Sydney: the tradition continues", url: "http://kay.smoljak.com/index.php/pre-wds-port80-in-sydney-the-tradition-continues/" }); (translate)

Mistake in CF Meetup times: talk times were reversed by mistake

Sorry folks, I made a big mistake in posting the announcements of the CF Meetup sessions this week--and I caught it after I sent my last blog entry today where I announced the mistaken times. The times were reversed by mistake. Ray is at noon, Dan is at 6. See the CF meetup site for details. For more on the mistake, and an apology to those who may now have to miss out, as well as how to access the recording of the meetings, see my discussion of the mistake on the CF meetup discussion board. Again, sincere apologies everyone. (translate)

Speak at FlexCamp London about Flex and AIR SQLite best practices

I'm glad to announce that I'll be part of the FlexCamp London next week (28th August) as a speaker. The agenda of the event looks damned cool and the speakers are a a warrantee of quality: Andrew Shorten, Mike Jones, Peter Elst and many others. Peter and I will have a speech talking about SQLite support in AIR and some best practices to optimize Flex development for local data storaging. (translate)

XMPP/Jabber - Internet based Instant Messaging

” I have submitted this paper for SRM - www.seventhsense.org Paper Presentation which is going to be held on 28 and 19th this month. My paper is since under review section. I have here given the paper. Comment yourself regarding this XMPP technology. ” ======================================================= My first part of paper is dedicated for open source XML streaming protocol known as Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol shortly XMPP also formerly called as Jabber. Here we discuss on core xmpp protocols which are standardized by IETF. This includes introduction to XMPP technology and benefits over other ones. Next part of my paper (translate)

Accommodating the new reality for the FileReference class in existing projects

This morning I read about the new rules regarding how to properly use FileReference.download() and FileReference.browse() in Flash Player 10 and quickly realised that this is going to impact one of my current projects.  Adobe has heightened security around how these are used.  Now they can only be called directly by a user interaction such [...] (translate)

FDUG Meeting 08/21/2008

Just a quick reminder that the Flash Development User Group (FDUG) in Richmond, Virginia will be meeting tomorrow night - 08/21/2008 at ArtWorks in south Richmond from 6 - 8. My old friend Kevin Power from the Martin Agency will be talking about programmatic animation in Flash and I’ll show some component skinning in Flex. All [...] (translate)

Introduction to AMFPHP

AMFPHP has been stirring up some well earned interest lately within the Flash/Flex community.  If you're one of those individuals looking to learn more on AMFPHP, be sure to check out Lee Brimelow's 2 part series as he introduces AMFPHP and demonstrates a few examples on how to get data in and out of Flash. (translate)

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