Why didn’t I think of that? Part 1: Swoopo.com

by adam on January 26, 2009

File this one in the case of ‘why didn’t i think of that’. Swoopo.com is a mix of ebay/woot and gambling all rolled into one.

The site employs an auction model for a select set of goods where each bid [...]

Mac Nostalgia (1984)

by adam on January 24, 2009

This video (below) made me remember my first computer, it was the The 1987 Mac Plus (pictured above) which I used to create choose your own adventure style video games on.
My favorite part of the video is the people’s reaction [...]

Mobile ‘Apps’ with HTML, CSS & Javascript

by adam on January 21, 2009

I stumbled across this article that has some good tips for developing rich web based mobile apps for the iPhone and other devices using just html,css and javascript. These tools look like they could be pretty useful if you want to ‘mobilize’ the content of your existing website but don’t want to go through the hastle of developing a new app for each new platform.

Displaying External Images in Flex

by adam on January 17, 2009

Recently I had to find a method to include external images in a flex project.
After much searching I found the following which was the simplest:

First, you must check the domain you are pulling images from to make sure
that they allow access in their crossdomain.xml file: