Small open source projects are increasingly becoming unsustainable. Why am I saying this? Well, we have to understand the motivation behind many of the smaller open source projects. A part of them started as one-man commercial projects that proved unmaintainable for lack of time or simply unprofitable (AdminTool, ScreenWeaver). On the other hand there are […]
I’m back from vacation (in Seattle, will be in Montreal in two days). Some highlights:
hitch-hiked 2500 kms around BC and did not get molested; went around Vancouver island (Victoria, Namaimo, Tofino, Bamfield), biked 100 kms on the Southern Gulf islands (Salt Spring and Galiano) hated beautiful-but-super-touristy Whistler spent two days on white sand beach off the […]
Darron Schall posted the scoop on ExternalInterface on the OSFlash list. Basically it’s an object that enables synchronous communication between the Flash plugin and JavaScript. The key point is it’s synchronous. No fiddling with callbacks here: the Flash player will pause while the request is being executed. No fiddling with the SPLIFF technique (scripting, php, […]