This is funny because its classic case of desigining a black magic product thats scans all the databases in the world in-place using its adaptable plugin modules that enables it to extract hidden terrorist messages from your mum\’s recipe spreadsheet in her Documents folder and correlate with credit card spending in Indonesia, via the included plugin module that sits atop of the VISA global credit card database. My favourite line in the pitch is…. and I guarantee that I\’m not taking it out of context: because its distributed, its totally secure Nuts! As someone working for a company...

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. ...

As part of the Upstart Hoopla! project I’ve started programming in Ruby, specifically using RubyOnRails(RoR). RoR an interesting programming language/framwork that is obviously the darling of the industry at the moment. Its easy to see why… RoR cuts through so much of the redtape that’s associated with frameworks such as J2EE, or even .Net. The Ruby language itself is bit tougher to get to grips with. It has some mannerism that can be currently best described as strange, compared to the stuff I’m used to, i.e. Python & Java. I say “currently” because I’m still learning these...