When creating a runtime component to use as a popup I wanted to bind a DateField’s selectedDate property to a Button label. Because I never used bindings ( and a labelFunction ) using pure Actionscript before I had to come up with a solution.
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This little snippet will replace the last comma in a string by the word ” and “. Making it more readable for the end user.
In other words: the string “Other examples are rats, mice,other rodents” will be converted into “Other examples are rats, mice and other rodents”.
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We have another position available at Mr. Henry.
This time we’re looking out for someone who’s good with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Added bonus points if your also proficient with PHP and / or Ruby on Rails.
We are looking for a developer for the Flash Platform. It’s a full time, on site position for our office in Antwerp.
Get more info on our jobpage: http://workingat.mrhenry.be/
Well, this thing got me going for a couple of hours before things worked out. Using HTTPService did not seem to be the way to go. Long story short: URLRequest to the rescue!
Soocial is the latest kid on the syncin’ contacts block. You can use it sync contacts across Mac, PC, phones, Gmail, … It seems to work ok for me across OS X and Vista – I synced Gmail, Outlook and Address Book.
One problem for some people are pictures. Contacts with pictures can’t be synced for the moment, but that doesn’t affect me.
People on Tweakers.net are a bit scared about the privacy issue; who gives you the right to store other people’s contact information online at a third party’s server? That’s a valid point.
The upside of Soocial is the cancel button. You can cancel the account any given time. This makes it perfectly possible to create a big backup of all your contacts using their tools and then cancel the account again. So, no privacy issue there, given they actually destroy all the data off course.
One counterattack could be to make their software open source or to make it possible for people to install the package on their own servers. But is using your own server safer? Sometimes it could be, but a lot of times it isn’t.
Before I pressed the cancel button I took this screenshot to show you the clear cancellation policy of Soocial.
Give it a whirl. Maybe you’ll like it. A lot.
After using some obscure workarounds, Google has released Calaboration. A nice tool to sync your google calendars to iCal. Setting up is a breeze and have yet to find issues ( using it for a couple of hours, so did not have much time to screw up right? ).
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Big companies are finally letting go those dreated clamshells!
Doesn’t ring a bell? What about those plastic containers you need to cut open, risking the life of yourself and your anticipating surroundings? You just bought something, got all excited to try that new CAT6 cable, but there you have it. Must-get-around-this-hard-plastic-wrapper-within-15-seconds. So you pull out your faithfull Haiku and start cutting away. Chances are high you’ll end up with damaging the newly bought goods ( or the dog who’s trying to get close to the new toys ). Your anticipating starts to diminish soon. People start to leave the room while you are left frustrated.
Always wondered why they were out there in the first place. I setteled on “must be to annoy shoplifters and to stress the owner”. Curious to see the next-gen packaging methods in stores soon.
Read more in one of two flavours: story in Dutch or story in english
Nice evolution: Processing with JS
[UPDATE]
After all problems we went thru with our setup we’ve solved it ourselves by buying a new CAT6 cable. Strange thing is that all computers do work with the same cable.
But for future reference, I’ll leave the complete story online:
We run our network from a Draytek Vigor 2910. We bought a printer from Saturn a month or two ago. But, as it turns out HP does not support that router. We bought a Photosmart C6280, a multifunctional printer from HP. The printer does not get an IP-address from the router, nor from one of the hubs connected to the router. All other devices ( laptops, pc’s, Macs, … ) don’t run into any problems, everything works.
