WordPress Console
When I first ‘really’ shifted from Macromedia Director to Macromedia Flash (instead of just using dumb little pieces of Flash within Director) — one of the things I missed most was Director’s message window; this little window allowed one to code completely in short term memory — creating and manipulating objects, as well as creating library (cast) media, or even external files (vLists were fantastic). Flash didn’t – nor still doesn’t — have this type of object manipulation.
When I started dabbling in Ruby, I was happy to find that the IRB worked in a similar was as the Director message window. But lately I’ve been working more in php, and specifically, in wordpress; attempting to setup my development environment to work in a way I’m used to in other languages — with debugging ability more than just printing out log messages. So far I’ve got xDebug up but it seems I’ve either got to allow it to break upon first line (which happens EVERYTIME a page is displayed) or… well that’s really it because breakpoints aren’t working in the php page. Hopefully someone else can point out how this is done..
HOWEVER the one thing I’m really jazzed about is the WordPress Console plugin that I just found via this article that describes it’s use — and I’ve got to say it’s already proving it’s (virtual) weight in gold.
quiet time is now over…
Meanwhile there’s been so much CHANGE. In the world of technology (Flex compiling to mobile devices, one of my heroes — Steve Jobs — dying) or my world at home (remarried, have a new son born 10/9/11, bought a house) — so that the last thing I wanted to do was post on my own site. But that’s not the way it should be, is it?
Stay tuned.
Lupo – Flex localization
This looks interesting: two Air Apps that help localize languages for Flex apps; made free by David Deraedt:
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).