February 19, 2008 – 9:01 am
I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the ‘new’ cloud hosting is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for [...]
February 11, 2008 – 8:09 am
Derek shows how to push AMF encoded messages from the server with Rails through BlazeDS.
Ted introduces the Yahoo! map components for AS3.
Combine the two and you could build a Flex/Rails app that tracks someone’s position in real time.
February 8, 2008 – 9:00 am
FarHeap hosted the Orange County Flex user group meeting last night and they’re looking for four full-time Flex developers.
February 6, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Entrepreneur magazine has an interesting article on John Chow who has a blog on making money with a blog, whatever he’s doing must be working as he makes $25,000 a month!
Chow has also assembled his income-earning techniques into a 59-page web book downloadable at johnchow.com. Make Money Online is free, but it still makes money [...]
February 6, 2008 – 9:12 am
The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]
February 5, 2008 – 12:26 am
The choice is yours, but if you’re on the fence that Obama fellow seems alright.
Why? Scarlett likes him…
So does Bobby…
OK seriously, Why Obama Matters.
Obama’s candidacy in this sense is a potentially transformational one. Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has [...]
February 4, 2008 – 11:54 pm
Via Dark as Light, the easy way to deploy Rails adds a staging environment.
Here are the LiteSpeed update instructions:
1. Click ‘update’ in the LiteSpeed administration console
2. There is no step 2
3. see #2
Why more people don’t use LiteSpeed is beyond me. Hosting a Rails app takes only a couple more steps with no mongrel_clusters or [...]
February 4, 2008 – 6:40 pm
I thought I might be able to sneak this design through but no luck as it uses the Firefox logo. Too bad it would have made a pretty sweet shirt.
It’s derivative of the old USSR Coat of Arms for those of you born in the late eighties.
February 2, 2008 – 2:27 pm
HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]
January 31, 2008 – 10:34 am
Three new components for Flash and seven for Flex. The AutoCompleteManager and ColorPlaneAndSliderPicker for Flex look particularly useful.
There are other color pickers out there, but a lot of the others sit inside a Panel or have some other extra visual elements and functionality you might not need. A good component should do one thing very [...]