Archive for March, 2009

Are Your Tweet’s Copyrighted?

Mar

31

by Mike Fleming at 3:27 pm Twitter

When you have a few spare minutes, check out this blog post from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He raises a very interesting question, and it generated a bunch of… (read the rest)

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Adobe and Facebook Announce ActionScript Library

Mar

31

by Mike Fleming at 6:53 am Facebook, Flash, Flex

Big news was announced yesterday by Adobe and Facebook. They have jointly released an ActionScript 3.0 library for the Facebook API. This bundles the entire API into a prebuilt library… (read the rest)

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.NET: Using a Regular Expression To Make a Link

Mar

30

by Mike Fleming at 7:07 am .NET

If you saw the post last week on using the tweetsharp Twitter library for .NET, you saw a sample of the output for our quick little test. If you revist… (read the rest)

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Video Games Could Improve Eyesight

Mar

29

by Mike Fleming at 7:37 pm (1) Games

Just saw this article on CNET about a new study that says playing action video games could help to improve your eyesight. The study found that playing action games can… (read the rest)

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Use Google Reader Within Microsoft Outlook

Mar

27

by Mike Fleming at 3:07 pm General

This is an old trick, but some of you may find it handy. I forgot about this myself until I read this Lifehacker post this morning. You can easily tell… (read the rest)

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tweetsharp: A .NET Twitter Library

Mar

25

by Mike Fleming at 8:03 pm (3) .NET, Twitter

I’ve been diving into the world of .NET development a little more these days and decided to further my leaning some by playing around with the Twitter API. In looking… (read the rest)

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Great, Quick Tutorial on Setting Up an Amazon EC2 Instance

Mar

24

by Mike Fleming at 6:54 am General, Windows

I stumbled across a nice little tutorial this morning by Chris Peterson of Alagad. It explains how to create a Windows based instance on Amazon EC2. It appears as though… (read the rest)

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Welcome to The Dev Shack (Previously Known as Magnetion Blog)

Mar

22

by Mike Fleming at 9:13 am General

Good morning everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that I have a new name and URL for what was named the Magnetion Blog. This also gave me the… (read the rest)

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Rendering HTML Pages Via ColdFusion

Mar

19

by Mike Fleming at 6:39 am (2) ColdFusion

I saw this new technote yesterday from Adobe, showing how you can have ColdFusion render HTML pages.  I would imagine most folks know how to do this and also that… (read the rest)

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Pandora Releases Blackberry Client

Mar

18

by Mike Fleming at 6:16 pm Blackberry

Pandora announced the release of their Blackberry client today.  After downloading it to my Curve and playing around with it a little, my first impressions are positive.  The streaming quality… (read the rest)

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