Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart. Flash MX 2004 features a rich set of components, from simple form controls to data grids and trees. The components are objects which all inherit from a base UIObject (which in turn inherits from MovieClip). Waleed Anbar's Flash Component Architecture article contains a nice component hierarchy chart, if you… Continue reading Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart
Author: Vince Kimball
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players–Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia–with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies–all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid–have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to… Continue reading Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
spf.pobox.com – SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From. SMTP has a security hole: any connecting client can assert any sender address. This flaw has been exploited by spammers to forge mail. Close the hole, and we can easily block spammers by sender domain. [ … ] October 2nd 2003: A unification project has begun under the aegis… Continue reading SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
RSS-Data for ColdFusion
RSS-Data for ColdFusion. Roger Benningfield has posted a working implementation of RSS-Data for ColdFusion MX. As part of it, he's included an updated XML-RPC library, too, and provides a new serialization/deserialization method to the ColdFusion Component. What's most interesting is how little code it takes to work with, thanks to CFML and CFCs. [Jeremy Allaire's… Continue reading RSS-Data for ColdFusion
RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation
RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation. Bryan Field-Elliot of PingID makes the connection between something like RSS-Data and the need for true pub/sub style infrastructure for RSS. Like others, he's frustrated by the “pull” nature of subscribing to RSS data feeds. In a separate email, I pointed out to him that RSS 2.0 already provides functionality (in the… Continue reading RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation
Spambusters
Boston Globe: Spambusters. The low-level fighting between techies and spammers that followed Canter's original blast has erupted into a full-scale war. And the most interesting dimension of the battle against spam is the manifold brigade of warriors now assembled to fight it. [Tomalak's Realm]
Soft Skills for Information Architecture
Soft Skills for Information Architecture. “For people looking to transition from their present role to take on information architecture duties, or for those who currently have these duties and would like to continue to grow and improve, an excellent approach to the softer side of IA is to build on a solid foundation of IA… Continue reading Soft Skills for Information Architecture
The keyhole problem
The keyhole problem. Scott Meyers, author of the essential Effective C++, is working on a new book. This one is on the keyhole problem. In his words: The book explains how some kinds of constraints in software systems decrease the quality of those systems in many ways. It proposes practical steps programmers can take to… Continue reading The keyhole problem
Notes and Tips: Satellite Internet
Notes and Tips: Satellite Internet. Here's a link to details about the DW6000, plus some notes. [MacInTouch]
KM in Law Firms = Waiting for Godot
KM in Law Firms = Waiting for Godot. Gretta Rusanow in LLRX: “Law is a knowledge based profession. Knowledge management – the leveraging of your organization’s collective wisdom by creating systems and processes to support and facilitate the identification, capture, dissemination and use of your organization’s knowledge to meet your business objectives – should be… Continue reading KM in Law Firms = Waiting for Godot