Comcast Speed Issues…
Ok – for the past week we’ve been having TERRIBLE speed issues within the Canton CT area – especially on upload. I pay for the business speed ($188 a month for just digital tv and cable) — and over Vonage I’ve been getting a terrible delay. Skype is the same way.
Right now I’m attempting to upload a 352meg video file to my server and it’s taking about 5 hours — did a quick test on comcast.speedtest.net:
That doesn’t seem right, does it?
Course on speedtest.net (and using a server back in the old neighborhood of Clifton NJ) we got this:
Gotta love this:
IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 beta
Hmm – this looks interesting: advanced data vis components for Flex – Diagram, Timeline, Gauges and Maps with spark-like renderers (mxml).
Flutter vs. Magic Fields
I had been looking at the custom post types that were added in WP 2.9 and fleshed out in WP3, but they still don’t offer the sort of database control I’m hoping for with a book publisher’s website. Read more
Busy Busy Busy! Wordpress, jQuery..
I’ve not posted on a number of interesting tech developments of late (Adobe vs Apple) and what that means for third party iPhone / iPad compilers (appcelerator’s Titanium, Elips from openplug, Unity3d) — but I’ve been extremely busy working on a few websites utilizing Wordpress and writing some custom widgets and plugins utilizing the fantastic jQuery.
I’ve been blown away getting under the hood with Wordpress and jQuery – creating custom post types, smart widgets and who knows what madness — and it’s definitely something I’ll be doing a lot more. I had been looking at drupal for these two websites but it’s definitely way more granular than I needed for these two gigs.
I’ve got some Flex players I’m finishing up as well and a lot more data wrasslin’….
Lego and Unity
Don’t know how this escaped my attention, but my old buddy Tom Higgins of Unity (ex Macromedia Director ambassador) posted that Unity Tech signs a three-year deal with LEGO!.
Ah — it’s funny; having recently been playing with Quartz Composer again, I’m feeling the need to delve back into 3d world…