Keynote Remote Straight to Computer

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralMar 27th, 2009 | No Comments After purchasing Keynote Remote from the iTunes store a couple of months back I was disappointed that it only worked over WIFI (why do we have bluetooth in the iPhone again?). Most conferences have spotty WIFI at best. I had an idea today though about using my computer’s built-in network creating ability. I set up a network from my laptop, connected to it from my iPhone, and had the Keynote Remote working in no time. No WIFI network. Yay! After I had figured it out I looked up on google to see if anyone else had done it and found they had. There’s a tutorial with screenshots here: http://www.italkmagazine.com/using-apple-keynote-remote-without-wifi/....

Layered Content kick-off

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralFeb 24th, 2009 | No Comments Today we had our first Layered Content meeting. We used Adobe Connect but had a lot of troubles with the audio. So it wasn’t recorded and we won’t be using that again. Not for awhile. I went over some of the generals of Layered Content. It’s a content management system for websites, it will use AIR and PHP/MySQL, it will have online/offline modes, it won’t have complex template markup but use a descriptor file and ids/classes as the entry points for content, and other general coolness. We talked about the major pieces needing to be done, roles to be filled, and goals of...

Better-than-Flex Binding

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralFeb 17th, 2009 | 3 Comments Tyler has ‘officially’ released his weak-reference databinding. It is smaller and faster than Flex’s but can be used in Flex and even has an MXML tag to create a bind. Check it out: http://www.xtyler.com/code/177. Update: I’ve refactored it and unit-tested it, fixing several bugs. The new version can be found on github.

360 Flex, best developer conference

Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, GeneralFeb 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment I just got word I will be speaking at 360 Flex. I’m really excited. I’ve had a lot of fun there in the past and the crowd is much more developer centric than other conferences, which makes for more interesting conversations and presentations. I recommend 360 to anyone, but especially to developers. Go register now. I’ll be presenting “Cloud computing with Flex”. I’ll talk about the services available to scale your application, but I want to focus on how you can build an app with zero server-side code. It’ll be an AIR app that stores its data on the cloud. Here...

Ready to play

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralDec 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments I’ve been so busy with client work I haven’t written for a long time. I was even invited to speak at MAX through a referral from Tom and John with 360|Flex and wasn’t able to write about it. I was so busy with client work when I wasn’t doing that I was preparing my presentations. After this week I will be mostly done with a large project deadline and have time to get back to writing. There’s much I want to talk about. Including a RESTful website system I’ve helped build on PHP’s Zend Framework, cool stuff with cloud computing, and maybe even some Python....

Ubuntu on Mac for Web Development

Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralOct 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments Geek alert: this post gets into Linux and other such topics. More geeky than I usually get. I have finally got my setup complete. I got tired of trying to find Mac binaries of all the libraries I wanted installed for web development, and I’ve been doing much more PHP this month than Flex. So I reworked things. Here’s my setup: Ubuntu Server 8.0.4 running on VMWare Fusion lighttpd web server, learned it in a few hours and loved it (thanks Jake) sshfs to mount my ~/Sites folder to the /var/www/ folder on the Ubuntu VM Installing Ubuntu Server on VMWare wasn’t a problem. I tried...