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Secure Cookies

August 24, 2009

Excellent article on creating more secure cookies at Carsonified: http://bit.ly/ZbBH5 Posted via email from Kevin’s posterous Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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I used 99designs.com to have a logo devised for a new site I’m creating. To some web designers this would be seen as a sin and a betrayal of the design community but I think 99designs is the ideal place to get a logo created. I wouldn’t want my website itself to be designed that [...]

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Changes in Flex 4 to Flash Builder 4

July 2, 2009

Flex has become Flash Builder Beta and, in the process, a number of changes have been made to the earlier version of the Text Layout Framework. The TLF is a revolutionary set of classes that enables you to include very rich text, even editable, into your Flash applications via Flash Builder (or the next version [...]

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Flash Builder

June 22, 2009

I’ve been using the Flex SDK 4.0 in beta form for a couple of months now and I absolutely love the extra functionality the Text Framework gives. It’s finally become possible to incorporate live, editable text in just about any form you like thus opening the door to all sorts of new applications. Use Facebook [...]

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Flex becomes Flash

June 22, 2009

Oh for heaven’s sake. I LIKE the name “Flex” but Adobe have decided, for marketing reasons no doubt, that “Flex Builder” must become “Flash Builder” when version 4 is released later this year. Use Facebook to Comment on this Post

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Why I won’t be installing Windows 7 RC1

May 6, 2009

Microsoft has made the Release Candidate of Windows 7 freely available to download. It’ll work properly until March 2010 which is very generous. All I’ve heard about Windows 7 has been positive but I won’t be installing it. Why? Because once the Release Candidate expires, I will then be required to perform a “clean” install [...]

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Carbonite problem, Microsoft’s fault

April 15, 2009

My Carbonite (www.carbonite.com) online backup program has been working well since I installed it a couple of months ago but then, suddenly, I began to get “cannot connect” messages when trying to alter my settings or view the control panel. Carbonite uses Internet Explorer for this purpose and, it turns out, the problem is due [...]

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At last, Book-keeping that works

April 7, 2009

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VisiBone

April 7, 2009

If you’re a web developer or designer you should get yourself over to www.visibone.com. VisiBone sell paper-based, cut down references for designers and developers including everything from colour charts to MySQL commands. I ordered the “Everything Book” on the 1st April, it arrived (from the US) 2 working days later and it’s one of those [...]

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The top 100 most valuable skills

March 18, 2009

Online freelance marketplace Elance has published the top 100 most asked-for skills amongst projects posted on its service. My immediate reaction was pleasure at seeing PHP, MySQL, CSS, WordPress, Flash and XHTML in the top 20 (with PHP and MySQL 2nd and 3rd) since these are my areas of expertise (along with Flex which doesn’t [...]

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