Albert sent me a YouTube video - Hug A Developer Today.
The video demonstrates the plight of every developer. And the pain they are in today.
I was surprised to see that the video was made by devShop - a project management system I am evaluating for my needs. Craig Fitzpatrick is the CEO. I was communicating with him last week about our needs, but did not check out the video links in his signature! Good job Craig!
Stumbled upon Dapper today! Their claim is “Get any content from the Web”. That got me interested!
And I explored around and found it to be very useful actually! Dapper lets you scrap any site and convert its content into an RSS feed / Email / Or any other format. I like the ease of defining the scraping logic and the neatness of the application.
Convert any website content into a feed
Make feed from Dapper, then take it to Yahoo! pipes (or anything else) for some more magic! This gets interesting!
I got .bin and .cue files from a friend. And was wondering how to use them on my Mac.
What are .bin and .cue files?
They are essentially CD/DVD image files. The .BIN / .CUE CD image format was made popular by the CDRWin software. Afterwards many programs have started supporting or partially supporting it, including: Nero, Blindwrite, CloneCD, FireBurner. The .CUE file contains the track layout information, while the .BIN file holds the actual data.
.ISO is also a CD image format, but is sometimes used for 'ISO9660 format' (standard, recognized by all applications) and sometimes for unique Easy CD ISO format.
So how can you open them on a Mac OS X?
Apple's DiskUtility does not support these formats. Roxio Toast or other CD burning software can open and burn from .bin+.cue files. But if you don't want to do all that, there is an easy way!
Use the bchunker command line program! You can download a Mac compiled version from James Sears' site and run a command like this to get an ISO file. This ISO file can now be easily mounted by DiskUtility.
Are you building an iPhone app? Or have an idea? Do you want to mock it up quickly? The iPhone UI PicKit can help you!
This is a kit of widget images that you can use in your image editing software. This way you can easily create prototypes of different screens and share them with others. There is also a layered PSD available.
iPhone UI PicKit
No need for the iPhone SDK! No need to learn Interface Builder! Just grab the screens and mock your iPhone idea! Thanks Daniel!
We have been struggling with zooming TextArea in Flex for 2 months now. Tried lots of combination but nothing worked. Can someone help?
Essentially, we scaleX and scaleY the TextArea as the zoom level changes. The component zooms in fine, but the text in it keeps wrapping as we keep zooming. We expect the text to stay as it is and just zoom. Not re-wrap.
Here is the text at 100%. Notice the last words on the lines.
TextArea zoom at 100%
Here is the TextArea at 150% zoom. Notice how the wrapping disrupts.
We have tried using zoom effect, adding line breaks at the end of each line before zooming and removing them, trying different fonts, embedding them - everything we could think of! But this looks like a bug! TextArea keeps wrapping the text as we zoom.
