After two years of patent-induced pain, Microsoft will be removing the Eolas “fix” from IE in April of next year. At that point, users should no longer be forced to click on embedded active content (such as Flash, Java, Quicktime, or Windows Media) to interact with it after April ’08. Read more »
Monthly Archives: November 2007
ColdFusion Beta program for Leopard and 64-bit OSs
Ready to move your Macs to Leopard, but waiting for CF support? There’s a beta opening now. See Kristen Shofield’s Blog for more information.
Unit Testing and Subversion – Where should I put the test classes?
I’m starting a strong push to institute Unit Testing in a relatively new project; I figure it will be easier to really get into the habits in a new project from the start, rather than trying to steer some of our ancient existing projects in that direction right away. But Read more »
Flex Builder: How does this MXML tag work again?
I’m doing a lot more Flex development lately, and I found a nice little keyboard shortcut in Flex Builder 3 that I wanted to note someplace. If you want the documentation on an MXML tag, select the tag name and hit Shift-F2.
That’s one full-service helpdesk…
An actual photo from my office: I’m glad the I.T. group could take care of that.
Advice for jumping into Java Web Services?
So I’ve landed on a new project. We’ve been asked to port a well-studied scientific algorithm into a Web Service, hoping to link the calculated results into a networked client for visualization (likely Google Earth). Now, porting the algorithm (from MATLAB) should be relatively straightforward. What I’m unsure about is Read more »