Friday, December 26, 2003

Just a quick note from my parent's PC back in the chilly west midlands in England to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone in web world! By the way when I left Sydney it was 37 degrees, when I landed at Heathrow, London it was 2, suffice to say I have been ill ever since and my Aussie girlfriend has suffered from tonsilitis! oh well...

P.S. Santa brought me 'Designing with Web Standards' by Jefferey Zeldman which I am excitedly reading at the moment!

Jon 11:02 PM Permalink

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Tomorrow I'm jumping on a plane and making the 24 hour flight of justice to good ol' blighty for Christmas (oh and a few days in Zurich over new year) so this will probably be my last entry of 2003. I'll be back in Sydney on 12 Jan so until then hope everyone has a great Christmas and a happpy new year.

Jon 9:04 AM Permalink

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

I have just upgraded the currently freeware (donations are helping the improvement of this product) from CocoaMySQL 0.4 to 0.5 which is a vast improvement and is a very useful mySQL GUI for OS X users. You can download it here

Jon 10:30 AM Permalink

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Just finished upgrading my G5 to Panther, had to set up a couple of users just to try out the new 3d user switching, that kept me entertained for a few minutes! The finder is a vast improvement and I was very impressed that OS X kept all my personal preferences and applications previously set up. Also I am very happy to bin suitcase and use the built in font book app.

UPDATE:
Expose rocks, F11 and all your windows shoot off the desktop in different directions, F9 and all your windows are re-sized and arranged on your desktop so you can pick which one you want, one click and hey presto that window is brought to the front. Use a lot of windows within one app? Dreamweaver for example - you have 5 pages open, click F10 and all your current application's windows are arranged on screen so you can view all at once, everything else is faded out in the background, click on the window you want and again it is brought to the front of your display...marvellous!

Jon 3:48 PM Permalink

Monday, December 15, 2003

I have decided to revert back to enetation comments on my blog. After a brief period of problems loading I swapped to Comment This! which although they have not been problematic, I cannot delete entries from blog spammers.

Jon 9:35 AM Permalink

Friday, December 12, 2003

Just read this article on BBC's technology news about Toshiba's new carbon-free ink that can be rubbed out with heat from a portable eraser machine. Now recycling paper will just be a case of removing the ink and using the paper again, clever!

Jon 12:21 PM Permalink

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

OK, I have overcome my previous problem of displaying the returned results using Flash.Pagesize, I hadn't noticed the method result.getNumberAvailable which returns the value set by Flash.Pagesize. Now my problem is I don't know how to return the next 2 items in my query...the search goes on.

Also if anyone can help me with this bit of code I would be very grateful and once again a schooner of Carlton Draught is up for grabs ;)

this.createEmptyMovieClip("product"+i, 100+i);
this["product"+i]._x = i*offsetX;
this["product"+i]._y = 5;
this["product"+i].loadMovie(productSwf, i);
this["product"+i].onRelease = function() {
trace("test");
}

oh and I haven't had a chance to get the definitive guide book yet.

Jon 4:06 PM Permalink