While developing on my local machine I noticed Firefox took a long time to load even the simplest page, with 6 seconds being the average. Googling around I found several possible causes, but the actual culprit was put there by a trusted companion. (more…)
If you’re developing Adobe AIR applications you might use the AIR install badge on your site to allow easy downloading of your application. So how can you integrate Google Analytics to track how many times your application has been downloaded? It’s easier than you think… (more…)
I want to thank Adobe for their gift. What gift? Adobe offered a FREE Thawte developer security certificate to the first 135 or so developers that contributed to their AIR marketplace. And yes, CreOFF is one of the lucky ones.
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Adobe has recently launched Acrobat.com – a collection of some online collaboration services that will allow you to upload files to share with others, convert files to PDF online, Buzzwords for creating and reviewing documents together and Adobe ConnectNow for holding full-fledged online web conferences with up to three people.
This evening I had the pleasure of spending precious (over)time on reclaiming my laptop from Microsoft instead of using it for some serious work. Yes, I might have been foolish in trusting Microsoft and leaving automatic updates ON because now I noticed what results this can have.
For those who didn’t experience this Vista update bug (yet): you probably have seen messages like “don’t turn off or unplug your pc. Windows is perfoming updates” when you shut down Windows. Well, this one appears at startup and it keeps restarting with the message “Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 – 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer”.
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Starting from this January 2008 I switched from being a full time employee to being a full time freelancer. For those of you with similar plans there are several interesting sites out there and one of my favourite ones just published a very useful book, available either as a PDF or paperback.
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Simple things like embedding a Flash SWF into the blog seem evident, but apparently WP doesn’t like the EMBED/OBJECT tags very much. And there are other reasons not to use the embed/object tags anyway (like the ‘click first to activate this control’-feature in Internet Explorer).
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