A lot of information on the web is aimed at people who use flashdevelop and other guis to build flex apps, this article is aimed at developers. I'll give you the information to get started with flex development quickly, using the free sdk and building with ant from the commandline …
A little python, a lot of angst... for just 3 hours of work this was definitely worth it :)
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Click the image to view it in wordle where you can mess with it.
I love the way that Im is the biggest word, you …
For the last few days I've been looking for a project called NoodleGlue. I got interested when I wanted to look into generating java wrappings for the Verse library.
If you just want to download Noodleglue skip to the end of the article.
Verse is a network protocol that lets …
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I've been interested for a while in putting virtual machines into version control - I haven't tried it yet as I'd imagine most modern vcs would grind to a halt. The idea is - keep your machine in something like git (I hear it's the …
I've been using delicious for a while, but have started bookmarking all my forum posts in there, it should be a lot easier for me to find out whatever I was talking about in the future :)
Saw "Colossus, The Forbin Project" last night; The U.S. gives an AI control of all it's nukes... what could possibly go wrong?
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Shortly after they turn it, on a message comes up "Warn: There is another system", it turns out the Russians …
Human beings are visual creatures, so in this post I'll introduce some ways of making your life easier using colour.
IColorFolder gives folders a context menu which lets you change the colour. Unfortunately this doesn't work fully in Vista yet, and you'll need to manually …
I've been using a patched version of JEdit with tango icons for a while, but seems like I missed the fact that 4.3 pre 14 came out with Tango support.
Go forth and download...
Via http://deadcabbit.blogspot.com/2008/05/jedit-pre14-tango-has-arrived.html
Just found this while going through my phones photos. This is from my last contract, the company used to be Psions software division, we found the tape in the bottom of a desk draw, who knows maybe it is the master tape for this game?
Just had a nightmare finding a binary for windows that wasn't cygwinized... eventually found it here
http://www.hackosis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nc111nt.zip
[update]
Jon Craton has mirrored this file in case the other link goes down
http://joncraton.org/files/nc111nt.zip
(Cheers :)
[update 2]
It …
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