This afternoon I came across some rather annoying behavior in Flex 3.1.0, that I’m going to go ahead and call a bug. I was using a FormHeading tag at the top of my form, and I wanted it to change dynamically. So I had something like this: <mx:Binding source=”_object.title” destination=”heading.label” /> … <mx:Form> <mx:FormHeading id=”heading” [...]
I used to have a bank account at Wells Fargo. When I opened it, they required me to also take a credit card along with it. Well, they didn’t technically require me to; they said if I took a credit card account then both it and my bank account would be free, but if I [...]
A few days ago, Dreamhost moved me over to their new cluster, from the old server that had been having some problems. But this post isn’t about Dreamhost; it’s about Google Chrome and browsers. After the switchover happened, visiting my sites worked just fine in Safari and Firefox; just go to the address and the [...]
Yet another “analyst” is saying that Twitter can never make money, and everyone should be afraid of that. This particular person is warning “real companies with real revenue” to stay away and not buy them. Frankly, I don’t care if Twitter gets bought, and I don’t care if they ever make money. And I also [...]
Yesterday is.gd went down (briefly, I guess). I’d been using it to shorten my links, and it was pretty frustrating that it went down. And I’ve read that some of these URL shortening services are planning to try to monetize their usage. Possibly with interstitial ads. I don’t know about you, but I’d find that [...]