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Archive for March, 2009
Are Your Tweet’s Copyrighted?
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 different views in the comments section. His short question was simple: Are Your Tweets Copyrighted? Is it legal for someone to quote one of your [...]
Adobe and Facebook Announce ActionScript Library
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 ready to use on the Adobe Flash Platform. This is great news for the Flash/Flex developers out there, as previously it was up to you [...]
.NET: Using a Regular Expression To Make a Link
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 the output of the code, you will notice that the Twitter API will return plain text only, meaning the links contained in a tweet are [...]
Video Games Could Improve Eyesight
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 increase contrast sensitivity, help amblyopia (lazy eye), helping you see better at night and improve spatial resolution. So all that time playing Call of Duty [...]
Use Google Reader Within Microsoft Outlook
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 Outlook to use Google Reader when you click the RSS Feeds area. Just right click on the RSS Feeds item from your folder view and [...]
tweetsharp: A .NET Twitter Library
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 around the net I came across a cool Twitter library for .NET named tweetsharp. It appears to be a fairly new project, so the documentation [...]
Great, Quick Tutorial on Setting Up an Amazon EC2 Instance
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 Chris will be authoring more posts that explain storage, backups and the pros/cons of running in the cloud. If you are curious on how how [...]
Welcome to The Dev Shack (Previously Known as Magnetion Blog)
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 opportunity to move the blog from Typepad over to WordPress. The new name of the blog is The Dev Shack and the new URL is [...]
Rendering HTML Pages Via 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 you can have any file extension set up to be rendered through ColdFusion. They also mention that this is a safe practice for hiding the [...]
Pandora Releases Blackberry Client
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 was really nice, as I did not experience a single stop in the streaming. The app also picked up all my normal stations that I [...]
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