Dustin Diaz is getting naked again! Well at least his blog is. CSS Naked Day is back for a third year. Head on over and sign up then strip away your CSS on April 9th.
Hey Dustin - any chance we’ll see GMail going naked this year?
Earlier this week, I wrote a Firefox extension to prevent duplicate tabs from opening. Reader Jimmy Fung posted a comment with a link to Firefox 2 and Flex: Launching builds in the same window. It makes my extension somewhat (alright completely) useless - but hey, I learned a lot about making Firefox extensions in the process!
One thing that has always bugged me about Flex Builder (or more specifically Eclipse) is that when you click the Run/Debug/Build button (or F11/ctrl-11) your project is always opened up in a new browser tab. It doesn’t take long until you realize that you have 20 tabs open – or at least in my workflow it happens!
So last night I built a Firefox extension that I have been wanting to make for a while. It’s called Prevent Duplicate Tabs, and ensures that only the most recent tab of a given url is open at any one time. After its installed, you will notice that there is a menu item in the Tools menu called “Prevent Duplicate Tabs”. By default it is checked, and if you want to turn the extension off, you can simple toggle the menu item.
This is my first ever Firefox extension. It was a bit of a pain to develop, and I now have even greater appreciation for the Flex documentation ;-)
Feedback is welcome – source is available by request.
Owen and I had a great weekend. His class is learning about rockets, and for his show and tell we had to make one. So we spent the weekend building this replica Saturn rocket (the one used in the Apollo missions) out of paper maché.
When we were done, we celebrated by watching Apollo 13!
Source: WikipediaTake it Easy by the Eagles is a song that always seems to make me happy. I’ve never been a huge Eagles fan nor a fan of this music genre, but it’s really a happy song! I realized this a while back when dealing with a DSL service provider’s customer service. Every time I called (yes - the service was not very good) the first song they played was Take it Easy. I remember that it put me in such a good mood, that I actually hoped nobody would pick up for a couple of minutes. One fact you may not know about this song is that it was co-written by Jackson Browne.
What’s your happy song?
I’ve been wondering lately how many Flex/Flash developers we have on Vancouver Island. I know there are a few here, here and a couple more here so there must be a fer more kicking around. I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a Flex/Flash Users’ Group, but would only do so if there were enough interested developers. If you’re interested send me an email (jim.rutherford[at]gmail.com) or leave a comment that includes your name and email address on this post.
So the iPhone is powerful enough to run Spore & Super Monkey Ball but not powerful enough to run Flash or Flex applications? Seems odd to me.
The World Wide Telescope is a project from Microsoft Research that made Robert Scoble cry, is now being featured on the latest round of TED Talks. This product looks truly amazing and will probably change the way we see our little spot in the universe. I can’t wait to give this a try with my 5 year old son when it is released this spring!
Egadget.com has a video that show the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard being installed, setup, Configurated, and used! A couple of years ago, Art Lebedev Studio showed a prototype of their Optimus Maximus keyboard with OLED keys that can display any image you want. Of course the default is numbers and letter, but the keys can also be customized with icons of your choice or predefined ones for your favorite applications.
You gotta love the Mac rumor mill! Gear Live is reporting that Flash on the iPhone is just around the corner and will be available along side Apple’s release of the iPhone SDK near the end of this month. I can’t wait to start hacking some cool Flex apps if and when the Flash Player is made available on the iPhone.
