For My Own Amusement

These are my links for October 29th from 15:47 to 18:02:

• Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate at Mike Chambers –
• SUMO – Very impressive flash based image editor. Some very very smooth tools
• Find, try, buy and download fonts online : MyFonts –
• fluint – Google Code –
• Automated testing and you, self-help for the Flex developer: Part 1 – InsideRIA –
• 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine –
• ADC—Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby –
• » BendPixels: use PixelBender filters as Flex Effects | Rags to Riches –
• Away3D 2.2: Let’s Enjoy The Charming of 3D By RailAway Express | FlexMan –

These are my links for October 27th through October 28th:

• QuickTutorial – flexmonkey – Google Code – FlexMonkey Tutorial. –
• Flex-mojos: Maven 2 plugins for Flex » Blog Archive » Automated UI tests –
• reactable related – Amazing table top and tangible music/sound generation tools
• korg.com –
• Cocoa with Love: Debugging tips for Objective-C programming –

UPDATE

I still seem to be having some problems with the below. So it would seem I haven’t solved it. I’ll attempt to take a screen cast of it happening.

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For I can’t remember how long I’ve had the most annoying problem when composing a message in Apple Mail where if I type a URL it will randomly attempt to turn the URL into a clickable link. Unfortunately, being a fast typer invariably what would happen is the cursor would be moved to a crazy location (ie. before the url, highlighting a block of text or any other location other than the one I had previously been typing at) thus resulting in gibber-gabber.

More annoying was that undo did not undo what I expected. It would randomly change large blocks that were most definitely not the most recent chunk of text … furthermore, redo would not work either. So by undo, redo, undo, redo would result in insanely screwed up content.

I stumbled across the fix today while looking in the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles directory. I came across ODMailBundle.mailbundle in which I cannot remember installing or what on earth it’s from.

Google reveal several cases of people removing it to fix various problems. Thus I removed it too and everything works really well now. YAY!

Apple has fantastic new track pads on their MacBook and MacBook Pro products. What would rock is taking this track pad and making a stand alone USB or Bluetooth version of it … or, attaching them to one of their Aluminium Keyboards in some way.

I’ve been experiencing a little RSI lately and have been trying to work out if I go for a Wacom Tablet, Track Ball or this morning was looking at the FingerWorks Gesture Pad … which is sadly unavailable :’(

In that I still have not created my own theme I thought I’d change the one I had been using. As a tribute to my friend Mike Tyson I’m using his theme Elegant Grunge.

These are my links for October 9th through October 14th:

• Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc. – Fantastic graphs built using the HTML Canvas tag, simple HTML and jQuery.
• A List Apart: Articles: Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement –
• jQuery Date Input – Slick date picker field
• Develop Your Own jQuery “ThemeRoller-Ready” Components | Filament Group, Inc. –
• A better way of entering dates – Parse date string to valid dates. ie. "today" parses to the current date.
• MooTools DatePicker Example –
• Datejs – A JavaScript Date Library » About… –
• jQuery Interactive Date Range Picker with Shortcuts | Filament Group, Inc. –
• Karim Charlebois-Zariffa / Graphic –