I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR and Flex 3 Beta 1… I reserve opinion on these technologies because I haven’t used them enough. But I thought I’d leave a wee tip… One thing that’s really useful to Flex 3/AIR coders is the ActionScript 3 CoreLib (AS3CoreLib). It contains MD5, JSON, and some other really useful ‘routines’. Following are guidelines on getting AS3CoreLib compiled for Flex 3 Moxie. ...

The other day I mentioned that I needed two applications to be written… A calendar syncer and a virtual desktop manager. Well I’ve found a workable VDM for Vista. Take a...

We are slowly moving to a world where information is readily available, wherever you might be in the world. One of the things that annoys me is that I cannot sync my ‘corporate’ Outlook Calendar with an online calendar such as Google Calendar. There is a RemoteCalendars project on SourceForge, but deals with syncing calendars from the Google Calendar cloud to the desktop. I want to send data in Outlook, running on my desktop, to Google Calendar. This has two benefits…. first it allows me to have access to my calendar from anywhere, secondly… Google Calendar provides a spring...

I’m launching an IT Conference Taxonomy. Its a simple one. Easy to follow and looks like this…. Conference –> IT Conference ——-> Web 2.0 Conference (people use MacBook’s and blog during sessions) ——-> Enterprisey Conference (people fall asleep in sessions and check their Windows laptop and/or Blackberry during breaks) Yesterday I was at an Enterprisey Conference. As the taxonomy develops I think I’ll release it under a creative commons license for the public good. ...

Welcome Ijonas (*sound of group clapping*). Ok so I admit I was vehemently opposed to the very idea of a Blackberry, six months ago. Then I got one and started to see the plus-side of the device. These days I positively rave about the damn thing. Although I’m not the type to constantly check for messages, which is I think the definition of a crackberry user and their addiction. I must say the whole experience is pretty slick. This week I spent two days at a conference in London and decided to leave my MacBook Pro at home. Instead opting to use my laptop bag as a shirt-carrying utensil. The...

Wow. Kirsty gave a Polar CS300 for my birthday. Its a cycle computer / heart rate monitor. It measures the speed and distance that you travel on a bicycle, as well as your heart rate, calories burnt, and a whole host of other things. Alongside the CS300, Polar provide a personal trainer website, which allows you to setup a training programme after providing it with some vital stats (age, weight, height, fitness, goals, etc.). The whole site is very easy to use and follows the design ethic of CS300, i.e. being very slick. Polar provides a WebLink SW software utility that transfers the statistics...

I mentioned last month that Father Christmas had given me an eveTV Diversity with which I’d be able to watch digital television on my MacBook Pro. I complained about the lack of Dutch channels available via the device and blamed it on the commercialisation of TV via advertising. Well, the same lack of channels seems to be a problem in the UK. So it seems there’s a problem with the device itself. My eyeTV setup combines both aerials as one aerial thereby increasing the quality and strength of the signal received. After an exhaustive channel search the setup wizard managed to find a handful...

Nothing to see, move along. That seems to be the message coming from Techmeme. Not because the site is broken but because everyone’s gone home. The site hasn’t “discovered” any updates in hours, let alone days. This is a great sign that the blogosphere is a predominantly human device. Techmeme which scans the blogosphere has ground to a halt with regards to fresh content, meaning people are enjoying christmas, visiting family, and playing with their new...

Ok. So I’ve moved the blog content and shifted the DNS records. The pain in the ass was moving the content. Although there’s several ways of importing content into WordPress there’s bugger-all means to get the content out of Typo. I tried the RSS route but that failed. You need to use WXR, which is WordPress’ namespace-extended RSS and generating a feed in that vernacular was too much of a pain. In the end, I ended up cutting-and-pasting the content, which is slightly ironic/embarrasing for someone in charge of technology at a company that develops and sells content migration...

I’ve decided to stop bleeding money through web hosting. I’m currently spending $10 here, £15 there… a month and all I’m doing is blogging. These days my basic web hosting needs can be pretty much fulfilled by services from Flickr, Wordpress, and GMail. Having bought a MacBook Pro also means I have a Unix environment with me all the time and don’t need one supplied through a hosted provider. I looked at several engines (WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and TypePad) and you can tell by the URL which blogging engine won. WordPress seemed to provide the best bang for...