ruby on rail books roundup

Posted by Moxie | November 21, 2006 .

Update 11-27-06: Beginning Ruby on Rails is released.
Between now and 2007 new year’s day, there are a pile of Ruby on Rails books coming out. Haven’t seen this kinda things for a long time. You don’t need me to interpret it. Here are all Ruby on Rails books I can find, published or not:

Agile Web […]

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make a wish - right click (example)

Posted by Charles | November 21, 2006 .

Guess just talking is not enough. Dug into our code. One way to do it is here. It’s kinda primitive and have to dip into Flash API. Wish Flex has more elegant way of doing it. (seems I need a better wordpress code plugin, any suggestion?)
var oldRootMenu;
var selectedIndex:Number;

function rightClick(){
var my_cm = new ContextMenu(menuHandler);

my_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(”Generate Financial […]

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make a wish - right click

Posted by Charles | November 20, 2006 .

I’v reviewed quite a few Flash/Flex based startups (mostly Flash based) recently. There is just one thing I always do when get on to a rich Flash UI site, right-click on items (or Mac equivlent) to see what’s on the context menu. Always barely anything.
Looking into those AJAX rich sites such as Google Doc, you […]

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Yourminis - that’s how Flash should be done!

Posted by Charles | November 15, 2006 .

If there is a startup can possibly and finally bring Flash to web 2.0 (or new web) mainstream, that’ll be Yourminis.com.
Readers of this blog would know the number 1 of the 100 Flex Business Idea is FlexTop, Flash/Flex based desktop (or home page). I mentioned there was only one Flash based desktop startup, Goowy. Now, Goowy created […]

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baby mobility - not quite mobile 2.0

Posted by Moxie | November 13, 2006 .

It’s been a week since came from Mobile 2.0 conference held in San Fransisco at 10/6 with mixed feeling. The conference was Hosted by Daniel Appelquist (Mobile Monday London) and Mike Rowehl (Mobile Monday Silicon Valley) with support from Gregory Gorman (The Open Group). They are not professional conference organizers and it’s said to be […]

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Review Me - for a price

Posted by Charles | November 12, 2006 .

It seems everyone on the web is going after the advertisement money. However, it’s amazing how long it took the pay-per-click idea to the pay-per-post. Of cause, once the idea’s out, it’s spreading like wild fire. ReviewMe is the latest pay-per-post startup.
In nutshell, you get paid to blog someone’s product. ReviewMe is different from others […]

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It’s time for mobile

Posted by Moxie | November 4, 2006 .

We are heading to the Mobile 2.0 conference (11/6) in San Francisco. Will report the latest happenings in the mobile world.
It’s time to shift some focus to mobile platform. Is there a place for Flash, or even Flex, in mobile world? How the Flash/Flex technologies find the fits there. I’ll try to find some answers.
Beside, […]

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