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Archive for January, 2005

Anyone willing to finish up a MapQuest toolbar extension for Firefox?

( News and Misc. )

I had some free time a little while back to create a Mapquest toolbar for Firefox. I never got time to finish it, but I figured I’d post the code and maybe find someone who has the knowledge and time to modify it. It’s working as is, but it needs a couple more things: remembering […]

Aurigma online image editor:: utter frustation

( News )

There’s this product called the Aurigma online image editor which is a Flash/Asp.net image editor with filters and a bunch of bells and whistles. A client asked me to modify it for him. Grrr. Try to open up the 16mb fla in MX 2004. It crashes it. Tried it in MX. Almost crashes it, […]

AMFPHP 1.0 and database independence packages

( Remoting and PHP )

We’re really close to the 1.0 release of AMFPHP and one idea I’ve been tinkering with is the ability to use database independence packages instead of straight resources for RecordSets. Right now a person that uses PEAR::DB as a database abstraction layer can’t use the RecordSet generation facilities. Do you use a database independence package […]

A better Date.UTC function

Here is the issue I had: I was working with my timeline code and if you zoom in a lot with a very short year span, you can notice the headers and ticks don’t line up exactly with the periods. I traced the issue to the simple fact that years and months don’t have the […]

PHPQuebec 2005 conference

( News and Remoting and PHP )

A quick note to say that I’ll be doing a presentation (in French) at the PHPQuebec 2005 conference on Flash and AMFPHP integration, which’ll take place right here in Montreal at the end of March. Gotta say my geeky cells are quite happy, as I should be meeting with the likes of Rasmus Lerdorf (the […]