http://www.morearty.com/blog Mike Morearty, a developer on the Flex Builder team. Mon, 05 May 2008 14:47:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am excited to announce that Adobe, in its continuing efforts to port AIR to as many platforms as possible, has begun work on porting AIR to CP/M. Today I brought my beautiful old Osborne 1 in to the office to get started on the job. The project is off ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2008/04/01/announcement-air-being-ported-to-cpm/ I just have to share this great term that my brother Brian came up with a while back on a Joel on Software discussion board: Action-Oriented Programming. Regarding motivation to get started implementing a product idea once you have one: Whatever you do, do something. Us programmers, we tend to overanalyze things. ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2008/03/12/action-oriented-programming/ The Flex SDK is now open source. To whet your appetite and get your brain going on some of the possibilities that this opens up, here are a few tidbits of information: The trunk directory is where active development is taking place on Flex 4 (codename Gumbo). Start there if ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2008/02/25/open-source-flex-the-candy-store-is-now-unlocked/ I use Gmail, and although I love it in general, one thing that is a little tedious is that when you want to send someone an attachment, you can't drag and drop the attachment onto your message like you can with most native email clients -- instead you have to ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2008/02/20/drag-and-drop-attachments-into-gmail/ Today I typed "wikipedia" into Google. Look at the weird subcategories that showed up under the main wikipedia.org link: What the?!? So of course I clicked 'em all. "Wikipedia:Hauptseite" and "Accueil" take you to the home pages of the German and French versions of Wikipedia, respectively. "Tirol" takes you ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2008/01/03/crazy-google-subcategories/ This is hilarious. Lacra, one of the Flex engineers on our team in Romania, filed this bug, which points out a place in Flex Builder where there is a list of country codes that includes "Romania, Socialist Republic of (RO)." As she writes, "The list of countries in ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/10/29/flex-builder-bug-report-romania-is-not-a-socialist-republic-any-more/ I’ve been meaning to post this ever since we released Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 a few weeks ago. There are some nice debugger enhancements I wanted to tell you about (in addition to the features that were in beta 1, which I described in June). Hierarchical variables view. Reduces clutter in ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/10/23/more-flex-builder-30-debugger-features/ I don't have an iPhone.  But if I did, here's what I would want it to have: voice commands, so that I can use it while driving. While listening to podcasts: "back up" or "repeat" to back up a few seconds "pause," "play," etc. "faster," "slower," "normal speed" Email: iPhone reads the email to me "next message," ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/07/01/what-iwant-from-the-iphone-voice-commands/ Hey, in case you didn't notice -- the beta of Flex Builder 3 works with the beta of Eclipse 3.3. Give it a try! Eclipse 3.3 has lots of nice new features. One of my favorites -- especially when I am working on the Mac -- is Cmd+3 (or ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/06/12/flex-builder-3-works-with-eclipse-33/ In a way this is a small thing, but it is certainly one of the most-requested debugger features, and I'm relieved that this is finally in the product: debugger tooltips. It really should have been in Flex Builder 2.0, but it didn't make it in due to time constraints. So you're ... http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/06/08/flex-builder-30-sneak-peek-debugger-tooltips/