MyHome : Introduction Video (1)
The “MyHome” project which launches tomorrow is accompanied by a series of videos describing the project… here comes the first in a short series of movies about “MyHome”.
An instant classic…
When the email linking to this cartoon arrived in my inbox, I instantly saw the timelessness and universality of the situation… fencing, foosball, table tennis or simply chilling… developers will always be able to raise the excuse of “compilation in progress… hence waiting”
Adobe Flex Data Visualization Watermark
Once in a while even the most professional individual finds themselves forced into a corner by circumstances over which they don’t have control… and on rare occasions it happens even though the individual do everything right…
…one such situation recently happened to me when I had to deploy an Adobe Flex solution using undigested Runtime Shared Libraries, Flex Modules and Data Visualization in one cool cocktail… after having been unable to rid myself and the solution for the annoying Flex watermark declaring that the chart was shown with a graph compiled with non-registered version of the Adobe Flex SDK, I consulted good ol’ Uncle Google for an answer…
If you don’t know what I am talking about… this is the watermark I am talking about… displayed in grayed out letters displaying “Flex Data Visualization Trial”…
Quickly I came to the JIRA entry for the problem stating that it was not a bug if you remembered to load the Framework RSL prior to loading the Visualization RSL…
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDMV-1756
However, this didn’t change a thing as I was already loading the framework prior to data visualization – I did however try, and yes, it wasn’t the solution…
Left with no official solution and a deadline I didn’t want to break for no one, I quickly had to become innovative and ingenious… I therefore dived down into the source code of the Adobe Flex SDK and eventually found my way to the sources for the data visualization components… once I had created an Adobe Flex Class library for the sources, compiling a SWC and referencing it from my application was easy.
To my great satisfaction, the homebrewed SWC proved to have no watermark when loaded as undigested RSL from a Flex module !
This solution not only solves the problem with the watermark, but it also allows me full control of which classes to include in the library allowing me to effectively cut the size of the visualization library in half based on the classes necessary for this particular application.
I have read the EULA from Adobe, and I don’t think I am in conflict when doing this… however, if anyone at Adobe reads this, please advice otherwise in case.
Please don’t hesitate to write me if you problems getting this solution to work for you…
PS… off course I have a licensed edition of Adobe Flex Builder, so this is not the issue here.
What happened with Mark Shepherd ?
Sometimes it happens that wiz’es show their face… only to disappear shortly thereafter, one such phenomenon is Mark Shepherd… he arrived to the blogosphere in the end of 2006 as a Computer Scientist at Adobe… and then he seems to have disappeared.
Is it perhaps the blogosphere’s pendant to music-industry’s “one-hit-wonders” or is there a more clever explanation to the apparent disappearance of Mark Shepherd ?
His works features among many other things, a Graph implementation as well as interesting visualizations of unrelated data.
PS…
I don’t know Mark Shepherd, but I think it’s interesting to witness and document his complete disappearance… I suppose the statelessness of the web and the inherent lack of persistent history makes it easy for people to appear, disappear and reappear…
Ecologically Friendly Hosting
Next time you are out looking for a hosting provider, perhaps it would be an idea to consider an ecologically friendly provider… and perhaps even to prioritize this aspect higher than prize… but honestly, doing so would need for alternative benefits to submerge in order to make it through management.
Many hosting providers offer the customers to flash their green profile on the website, but the effect and actual value of such a label is hard to determine…
It would be interesting if governmental institutions would demand that sub-contractors would present “green books” and e.g. only use a hosting provider for their solutions that have a green profile and would be in compliance with a green standard… and hence showing this on their website with an “eco-label”.
Especially hosting would be a good place to start, because the potential benefit is high and it’s easy to be green because there is no inconvenience…
A quick search on Google reveals a number of conscious hosting providers…
Cisco.com defaced ?
Has Cisco been defaced or have the whole world turned into pirates ?
It appears that Cisco.com have been hit by a lowercase “t” shortage making the entire site sound like something from either a pirate movie or as spoken by Elmer Fudd…
Google Code & Adobe Flex
Since many open-source Adobe Flex and ActionScript oriented projects are hosted at Google Code… a search on Google Code for Flex yields a number of very interesting results and can be used as a simple way to search for cool solutions to common problems…
A quick list reveals projects such as Flex-Mojo’s, FlexLib, ReflexUtil, FlexMDI, DPHibernate, FlexCover, Degrafa, FxSpy, IT-Depends, AlivePDF, Flunit, Tweener, URLKit, AS3Glue, etc. etc… the list continues
Check it out…
http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=flex&projectsearch=Search+Projects
Adobe Industry Leaders & Innovators
Today I became part of a group for Adobe strategists…. apparently offering some cool opportunities for sparring of ideas… these are truly exciting times for Hello…
Charity Code Jam
Charity Code Jam events are held at various locations and are extreme programming marathons of many generous code warriors. At the end of the event the adopted Charity has been developed an Internet solution that can help them with their efforts… but it appears that nothing is happening lately… anyone knows what’s up ?
Website…
http://www.charitycodejam.com/
…and the dedicated “Charity Code Jam” group on “Linked In”
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=837957
Last year it apparently resulted in a Flex Code Jam… so why not this year ??
http://www.flexcodejam.org/
Kontain™ (another F.I. production)
Kontain™ is the most recent alternative in the scene of Web 2.0 services.
It’s almost ready to go into public beta, so keep your ear to the ground in order to stay updated… if it becomes as cool as the producers promise: it’s going to be an extremely cool way to maintain your online life documentation.
Sign up to receive word when the Beta is released…
http://www.kontain.com/
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