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High ho the dairy-oh, a bit.ly we will go.

Missing around with bit.ly , the latest in URL shortening.
same as tinyurl.com or moorurl.com and roughly in-between
in cuteness.

Welcome to bit.ly/GDG !

    I was fooling around with the google web app toolkit today.  Webapp expects implementations in pure python. I made the following interesting discovery in the docs:

"The out stream buffers all output in memory, then sends the final output when the handler exits. webapp does not support streaming data to the client."

Today Omnifocus reached 1.0, gained a help file documentation.  I’ve been using it since it came into public beta and found it very useful.  For the time being I have abandoned all other "to do" methodologies, such as gootodo.com, rememberthemilk.com, and brought everything into Omnifocus.  I like it.

Well, except for parallels and the brother printer, everything works fine in leopard

how ctould you not like a configuration option with a name like UFO?  Have to check it out…

http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/

"The FileReference.upload() and FileReference.download() functions are nonblocking. These functions return after they are called, before the file transmission is complete. In addition, if the FileReference object goes out of scope, any upload or download that is not yet completed on that object is canceled upon leaving the scope. Be sure that your FileReference object remains in scope for as long as the upload or download is expected to continue."

So, my code worked perfectly when I changed my FileReference variable, declaring it outside the block in which the download() was called.  I used the try…catch to try to find out what was happening, but if I had been listening for the ‘cancel’ event, I’m sure I would have discovered sooner why it wasn’t working in the first place.

comparison of Actionscript and Java syntax.

Thanks to John Dowdell at Adobe for this link…  I’ve often wondered how to find out this info, and here it is, all neatly wrapped up!

http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html

In other news I’ve received a copy of Keith Peters’ book Actionscript 3.0 Animation for review, and I’m very happy with it so far.  This book is a product of real experience and thoughtfulness and imparts wisdom in three areas everyone ought to have learned in school.  Of course I’m talking about Physics, Trigonometry, and Thinking.  I learned only two of these, so the book provides a welcome review.  Each technique appears to be so simple — certainly there isn’t that much code in any one example — and yet along with each ‘lesson’ (fortunately they aren’t packaged explicitly as lessons) there is at least one little ‘gotcha’ that Keith Peters tells you how to avoid.  So you can scan the book quickly to see what’s in it, just to get the formulas, but reading it straight through is bound to save you time.

I’ll point you to my full review as soon as I finish the book later on this week, but let me just say this now.  If you don’t have any books on Actionscript 3, this is probably the best one to start with, especially if you have any interest whatsoever in animation.

I wanted to put somewhere a record of Jeneane’s thought on the topics of ‘what is social’ and what are we doing when we inform someone   This is just the most convenient place to put it, even though it has nothing to do with Flash development. 

http://allied.blogspot.com/2007/02/feeling-all-information-superhighwayish.html