Programming
Why I don’t use Microsoft technology
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m big on Linux, well Ubuntu to be more specific. I also have strong tendencies towards Java and open source when it comes to programming. But, it wasn’t always like that… Long ago, when I was still a lad, I was BIG on Microsoft. I guess because that’s all [...]
Stackoverflow
When Stackoverflow went in beta I was really excited. Joel & Jeff had been discussing it for a couple of months already in their pod-cast and I was kind of curious to finally see it in action. I already had an OpenId which I had never actually used so Stackoverflow gave me a chance to [...]
CodeIgniter and Controllers structure
Over the weekend I was playing around with CodeIgniter. I was up and running pretty quickly and it all seemed to go pretty smoothly. Having built web applications and web sites for a number of years now and before that desktop applications etc, I’m usually pretty quick with establishing a technical structure for my site. [...]
Eclipse Local History
I’ve been a big fan of Eclipse for quite while now and every now and again I find a new feature that gets me more excited about Eclipse just a bit more.
The other day when I was working on this project I noticed in the Team folder of the right-click (context) menu of a file, [...]
Flash Remoting
I never really had the chance to use Flash Remoting on a commercial project and it has been years since I played around with it. It must have been 2003/2004 or so that I first tried using it. At the time I tried it with ColdFusion, which worked pretty OK, and with Java (JRun to [...]
PHP
I used to hate PHP. I still do actually, even if it’s only just a bit. But, over the past year or so I’ve developed an appreciation for the language. OK, as a programming language it is pretty odd. I mean that syntax, c’mon. Some weird demon child offspring between C and Perl. It’s a [...]
(more) ActionScript 3 weirdness
The other day I was attending the Colin Moock lecture “AS3 from the ground up” here in Sydney. Even though the lecture was very (and I mean very) basic, as it was intended, it was still quite interesting to see the man in action. I sat through the whole thing even though around 4 o’clock [...]
CoreTween v1.0.0 beta 2 available
For the past week I’ve been working hard on the CoreTween website and the CoreTween library. Small changes where made to the CoreTween library and a new reference section has been added to the website.
One of the problems I was facing with the CoreTween reference documentation was the fact that CoreTween supports four different languages. [...]
New flex2ant release (v0.0.5)
Once in a while I get requests or bug reports for flex2ant. Like the other day, I received a request for a fix of this one bug from two different people. Apparently a blog had popped up that discuses flex2ant (amonst other things). I knew that the problem in question was caused due to operating [...]
Papervision3D, Quake Models & Color Palettes
Last week I was working on a port of a Quake model viewer I did in OpenGL to ActionScript 3.0 and Papervision3D. The actual AS3 code is reading the Quake model information from the original binary Quake .mdl file and contains, besides the polygon data, the bitmap that represents the texture for the model. The [...]