Monthly Archives: July 2007
Ooo people like me!
So, XinuReturns really does work. Showed me that the Blogathon monitoring group likes me Mebbe more about that now that I know they have a place to congregate.
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DeLorean to Make a Small-scale Comeback
According to this article, the small company that bought most of the leftover stock of DeLoreans, parts, and blueprints is set to begin building the cars from scratch. Their stock of parts is running low after a couple of decades of being the only supplier, working from whatever DeLorean had on hand when they shut [...]
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Flex Pass Message to Parent Component – Part 2
Ok, figured it out. There’s actually a “parent” object you can reference, like so: var myParent:UIComponent = new UIComponent();if (parent is UIComponent) { myParent = parent as UIComponent;} This gets me everything I need.
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Should Security Tools be Generally Allowed and Available?
Slashdot today had a blurb regarding a German open source developer. He is forced to discontinue development of his project (a wireless network sniffer for MacOS) because recent laws in Germany would make it dangerous for him to continue participating. He is encouraging anyone who can to take copies of the source code while his [...]
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Flex Pass Message to Parent Component
So I’m passing the time by getting ahead on some stuff for work (possibly dangerous at this point, I know). I have a method in a .mxml that needs to reference its parent component. The way this was accomplished before was by getting a static reference to the main app, then just doing this: app.component.whateverINeedToDo(); [...]
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Pack-rat-ism
I have boxes full of notebooks full of notes from classes I’ve taken. These are about 75% full-page doodles, 15% blank pages, and 10% actual notes. I’ve never gotten rid of them. With any luck, I will be soon. I have never (before now) gotten rid of anything electronic. Broken? Goes in the broken electronics [...]
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Iain M. Banks
Reading Wikipedia about Iain M. Banks (the author of The Algebraist, as I mentioned earlier), reveals that he has several other books I need to acquire. He has a 6-book + short stories series that fleshes out a universe similar to the one in The Algebraist. He also writes literary fiction (my wife will be [...]
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Best Short Stories Online
I know lists are nearly verboten on blogs, but I’m tired and I need to post something for this half-hour, so another list is what you get :-p I’ve got a small collection of short stories bookmarked; I’ll share the best of them with you here. Along with Terry Bisson’s They’re Made Out Of Meat, [...]
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Programs I Could Not Live Without
Whenever I reinstall an operating system, there are several programs I must install before I even think about developing. Windows:TextPad – The best lightweight syntax-highlighting editor I’ve seen for windows. Has all the basics and then some.Cygwin – The basics of Bash on Windows. Write an honest-to-God bash script on windows. Never mess with a [...]
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